Category Management
Strengthen Competitive Edge through Category Intelligence
Strategy Builder Tools
Market Intelligence Access
Performance Dashboards
Collaborative Planning Workflows
Build and Scale Winning Category Strategies
Empower procurement teams with guided tools to develop and evolve strategic category plans. Leverage internal objectives alongside supplier and market intelligence to assess sourcing levers and identify priority actions, whether that’s driving savings, reducing risk, or fostering innovation. Built-in templates like SWOT, Porter’s Five Forces, and the Kraljic Matrix help teams apply consistent strategic frameworks. With repeatable, scalable planning, you enable informed, proactive decision-making across the enterprise and elevate the impact of category management.
Make Smarter, Faster Decisions with External Insights
Integrate real-time external data into your procurement processes to validate decisions and anticipate market shifts. From global commodity pricing to supplier financial health, JAGGAER offers access to critical intelligence that enhances planning and negotiation. Procurement teams can evaluate scenarios with confidence, armed with insights that reduce guesswork and speed up analysis. This level of market awareness ensures strategies remain relevant, agile, and aligned with supply chain realities, helping your organization stay ahead of change and minimize reactive decision-making.
Monitor Category Goals with Visual Analytics
Measure procurement success in real time with customizable dashboards that track savings, compliance, supplier diversity, and risk. These visual tools give teams clarity into current performance and trends, helping identify gaps and optimize results. Stakeholders across the business, from supply chain to finance, can view tailored insights aligned to their roles, driving more strategic collaboration. JAGGAER’s intuitive dashboards support a data-driven culture where goals are visible, progress is transparent, and decision-making is backed by clear metrics.
2-0%
Savings
of total spend utilizing effective Category Management
Align Procurement, Finance, and Business Units
Eliminate operational silos with collaborative planning tools that connect procurement, finance, and business units in a shared environment. These workflows facilitate real-time input, review, and approval of strategies, enabling alignment on budgets, risk appetite, and strategic goals. Contributors can provide structured feedback and reach consensus faster, accelerating execution without compromising on quality. This connected approach not only improves transparency and governance but also ensures that category strategies are fully aligned with enterprise-wide objectives.
AI-Simplified Category Intelligence
Innovation and Market Trends
JAGGAER Category Intelligence
Stay Ahead with Real-Time Market Intelligence
Category Intelligence delivers real-time market insights and trend analysis to helping businesses stay competitive and anticipate change.
Smarter Decisions with Data, Insights and Intelligence
Gain deeper visibility into market trends, supplier capabilities, and category performance to uncover new opportunities, reduce risk, and make smarter sourcing decisions that drive procurement and supply chain success.
Everything needs to be easy to manage and well organized, from the database to the RFQs. The goal is not simply to standardize monitor our category strategy sustainably. The new Direct Category Management is the perfect tool to help us achieve these goals.Domenico Scotto di Luzio, the Head of Supply Chain, Bühler
We do not limit collaboration with suppliers to data exchange or sourcing-related logistics, but rather search for new ways to increase the value of all collaboration partners.Lothar Färber, Vice President, Procurement, Carl Zeiss AG
JAGGAER is a very important part of our technology strategy, already covering the whole upstream, that is to say, strategic part of procurement.Andrea Sala, Procurement Project Manager, Franke Group
Capabilities
Maximize procurement impact with AI-driven category strategies, unified insights, and actionable analytics to reduce costs, mitigate risk, and improve supplier performance.
Unified Spend & Supplier View
Combine Spend, Supplier, and Contract Data for Clearer Decisions. Gain visibility into supplier spend and contract exposure within a single platform to identify opportunities and mitigate risks faster.
AI-Enhanced Category Planning
Let AI Identify Opportunities Across Complex Category Structures. Use AI-driven insights to uncover inefficiencies, hidden risks, and untapped savings potential across your category portfolio.
Centralized Strategy Repository
Store, Share, and Reuse Proven Category Strategies Globally. Maintain a central knowledge base of category strategies to replicate success and scale best practices across business units.
Scenario Modeling Tools
Run What-If Scenarios to Compare Sourcing and Risk Trade-Offs. Model sourcing or market scenarios to evaluate the impact of supplier changes, demand shifts, or risk events before making decisions.
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Achieve more with JAGGAER One
JAGGAER One is a fully integrated suite covering the full source-to-pay spectrum with powerful tools for managing all direct and indirect categories. Learn more about these additional products that are also part of JAGGAER One.
