CapellaMake digital category management happen
Powered by AI and the 5i® process, Capella breaks the mould in digital category management software. Capella will generate breakthrough category strategies you can believe in.
Capella The Guided Category Strategy Creator® for Digital Procurement
Capella’s guided category strategy creator® brings the power of digital procurement to your entire team, enabling anyone to become an expert category management practitioner.
Capella is trusted by organizations around the globe and when combined with our world-renowned training, your procurement team will drive outstanding results and be a strategic contributor to business success. Let Capella lead the way, or switch to Advanced Practitioner mode and take control.
Capella will intelligently guide you through the 5i® process to produce the optimum digital category management strategy. It works for simple areas of spend right up to the most complex of categories and adapts in response to the goals you set. This means dramatic benefits no matter what your priorities are: cost down, sustainable supply-base, innovation, risk, or other supply-side value.
Harness the full potential of digital category management to drive sustainable, transformative results
Capella - Built on the world renowned 5i® Category Management method
This 5-step method has been taught in universities worldwide and remains rooted in proven economic and change management foundations. Like Procurement, category management is evolving; the context, outcomes needed, and how we can best apply category management has now changed beyond recognition.
Capella spearheads this change in digital procurement, fusing the rigour of guiding practitioners through the critical steps through 5i, together with access to new vast data and intelligence, an advanced algorithm to accelerate strategy development, and of course our secure embedded AI agent.
Critically, all this happens with the full transparency of our 5i process, meaning you have a trusted benchmark to gauge category strategy progress and effectiveness of what procurement category management software determines.
Make Capella the main player in your digital procurement success story
Buying a great digital procurement software platform gets you so far, but great implementation changes the game. Yet it is here where most companies fail and wonder why the results fall short.
We are leaders in implementing successful category management, meaning how we will implement Capella in your organization is as much of the story as Capella itself. Choose Capella, and we work with you so it becomes central to what you do.
We will elevate team capability and drive deep, lasting change in how your procurement team operates - transforming you into a digital category management software-enabled function equipped to change the game.
Dramatic benefits are possible with Capella with four steps to change the digital procurement game.
Implementation
Set up Capella for success
Remarkable results are possible when you embed Capella at the centre of your procurement.
This is only possible with a good implementation and governance, and a commitment to category management best practices. Our customer success team work with you every step of the way to transform your organization, with a leading digital category management driven procurement function. How we do this depends upon how far along the journey you are, but might include a number of critical enablement activities.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How is Capella different from other forms of digital category management?
It is unique because it uses both a complex algorithm, together with AI, to produce strategies. The algorithm is built on the proven 5i® category management method and so has the greatest likelihood of determining the correct category strategy.
Will Capella generate my category strategies for me?
Yes, select guided mode, or use advanced mode to ‘get under the hood’, and adjust or build on what Capella determines.
Do I still need to understand category management or can I leave it up to Capella?
Yes, whether you select guided or advanced mode, an advanced knowledge of category management is essential in order to validate outputs or build on what Capella determines.
How can I validate the strategies Capella determines?
By applying traditional category management principles and approaches to tally what Capella produces.
What if I want to adjust the strategy Capella determines?
A unique feature for Capella is the ability to work on, or adjust, category strategies along the way, to ensure the optimum strategy.
Will Capella help me implement my category strategy?
Capella will determine the category strategy and key implementation requirements but it won’t implement it for you.
Can I Integrate Capella with my other systems?
Yes. Each integration is unique, so as part of our customer success program we will work with you to set up the necessary integrations.
Where does Capella get its data from?
Capella leads you through a series of data entry and capture screens to build up to a category strategy. Separately, Capella’s onboard AI will gather other data, and if Capella has been integrated with other systems it will also collect data here.
How does the AI on Capella work?
Capella uses our own closed AI that has been uniquely trained on our vast content. This means Capella has its own exceptional category intelligence.
How can I be sure Capella protects my data?
All your data remains secure. We are an ISO27001 and ISO9001 company with options for hosting of data around the world to suit your preferences. Capella’s AI is closed so anything you enter does not get used for open AI training.