Capella

With step-by-step guided progression through the world renowned 5i® category management process – Capella automates great category strategy creation.

• Expect breakthrough results because Capella is powered by 5i^® Category Management – used as the benchmark by global organizations for more than 20 years.
• It’s intelligent and uses true AI to apply the 5i^® strategic toolset including Portfolio Analysis (Kraljic), Supplier Preferencing, Day One Analysis, Porters Five Forces and many more.
• The Guided Category Strategy Creator^® progressively builds facts and data-based strategic options, with ‘Capella Says^™’ providing updates and suggestions along the way to steer you towards the optimum category strategy.
• Capella removes cross-category variability and ensures good process application every time, meaning you can be certain of good results for every category.
• Business-wide stakeholder collaboration engine, reporting options and sharing options for category strategies.

Capella delivers your organizational goals. Whatever the primary focus, Capella will play a lead role in realizing it. Whether this is Cost, Sustainability, Risk or Innovation, or a balanced objective; choose your lens and let Capella guide you towards the optimum category strategy to realize your strategic goals.

• Goal driven outcomes with faster, smarter decision-making.
• A means to deliver sustainability in your supply base.
• Evaluate the impact of different category strategies according to what the organization wants to achieve.

Integrated multiple smart Value Lever application – the means to realize category strategy.

• Unlock all the value possible – Using the 5i^® Value Levers, Capella will determine which ones to apply and when, and provide implementation actions aligned to goals set, to best support your category strategy.
• Drive process rigour – Capella means you no longer need to rely upon expert practitioners or hope the team will be diligent in applying Category Management. Capella does this and you can check progress in real-time on the Capella category dashboard.
• Capella will create a ready-to-go implementation program with embedded risk management and change management to make driving change for how you source a category much easier.
• Capella makes business engagement happen – Effective cross-functional Category Management is embedded for the key stages of Category Management: Stakeholder Engagement, Spend Analysis, Risk Management, Portfolio (Kraljic) Matrix, Five Forces, Supplier Preferencing, PESTLE, Price Model, Price Analytics, Market Assessments, Value Levers, Business Requirements Synthesis, they are all in there, plus many more!

Choose either Guided mode or Advanced Practitioner mode – Capella provides two ways to create breakthrough category strategies. And Capella has capability development built-in. Practitioners can learn as they go with a full learning management system and access to our vast learning resources on demand. If you are already an expert Category Management practitioner, you can refresh and top up your knowledge. If this is new to you, learn everything you need to know to become a Category Management specialist.

• Features expert video tuition modules at each step, providing just-in-time support while working through your category strategies.
• Learn while you do with effortless and compelling capability development, on demand or at your own pace.

Capella features a benefits tracking package so you can track progress and benefits realization for each category across a range of benefits aligned to your goals.

• Confidence of realization with cost saving tracking.
• Track sustainability benefits and capture ‘positive impact stories’ to sell the benefits.
• Track all qualitative benefits including risk reduction, supplier innovation and improved value.
• See all categories at a glance and total benefits vs targets with the full management dashboard.

Work collaboratively, developing and implementing category strategies. Easy global collaboration across multiple business stakeholders for joint working, category strategy approval and implementation. Secure buy-in and achieve business alignment with a common purpose and way of working.

• Make procurement a welcomed and embedded partner to every function business-wide, Capella makes cross-functional collaboration easy.
• Extensive business involvement at every step to ensure the creation of strategies the wider business will support.
• Collaborate with your team in real-time and work on key tools and steps for effective Category Management.
• Easy synthesis of multiple ideas, views and requirements to arrive at one single, agreed outcome.

View progress status and benefits across all your category strategies with the built-in user and management information dashboards.

• Category strategy health check with real-time indicators including total difficulty level, our buying power in the market, and degree of business engagement.
• Visibility of category strategy progress with a time stamped audit log of strategy development.
• ‘All category view’ management dashboard to see progress and total benefits realization across all categories .
• Capella provides a new confidence that teams are progressing well and producing optimum strategies to realize targets.