Meet Capella

The Guided Category Strategy Creator^®

Powered by the proven 5i^® Category Management process for best practice strategy creation, Capella is the latest thinking in software driven strategic procurement. Break free from traditional templates and dependence upon good application – Capella is the new way procurement teams can build breakthrough category management strategies.

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Capella’s guided category strategy creator^® means anyone in your team can become an expert category management practitioner.

Capella will intelligently guide you through the 5i^® process and works for simple areas of spend right up to the most complex of categories. It will lead you to the strategy that will deliver your objectives, whether they are focused on cost, sustainability, innovation, risk, or other value from the supply base.

Let Capella lead the way, or switch to Advanced Practitioner mode and take control

Choose the mode that is right for you with confidence that Capella will enable your entire team to deliver breakthrough category strategies. Capella is based on best-practice knowledge and powered by the proven 5i^® Category Management process.

Whichever mode is selected, you become a business partner, and Capella’s collaboration engine enables you to engage the business and work together to build world-class category strategies.

Guided mode

Let Capella lead the way! Ideal for those in your team who are less experienced in category management and working on smaller or less complex categories.

Advanced practitioner mode

Seamlessly switch to Advanced Practitioner mode at any time and you lead the way! For your more skilled category specialists working on larger or more complex categories, Advanced Practitioner allows you to work the 5i^® category management process and tools to take a more hands-on approach to strategy development.

Step up to next generation category management and transform your procurement function with Capella

Intelligent Workflow

Goal Focused

Agile Strategy Creation

Capability Development

Real-time Benefits Tracking

Collaboration Engine

Governance Dashboard

Intelligent Workflow

Step-by-step guided progression through the 5i^® category management process, and automation of category strategy creation.

Powered by 5i^® Category Management – proven to deliver breakthrough results in global organizations for 20 years.
Featuring true AI – built upon the 5i^® strategic toolset which includes Portfolio Analysis (Kraljic), Supplier Preferencing, Day One Analysis, Porters Five Forces and many more.
The built-in Guided Category Strategy Creator^® - progressively builds facts and data-based strategic options, then ‘Capella Says™’ steers you towards the optimum strategy.
Remove cross-category variability in good process application and gain certainty in results generation.
Business-wide stakeholder collaboration, reporting options and category strategy downloads.

Goal Focused

Choose your lens and let Capella guide you towards the optimum category strategy to realize your strategic organizational goals. What is most important? Cost? Sustainability? Risk or Innovation? Or a balanced objective? Choose your lens and let Capella guide you.

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.

Agile Strategy Creation

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

Identify and seize hidden value – Capella will determine the value levers and implementation actions aligned to goals set, to best support your category strategy.
Reduce the reliance upon expert practitioners and check progress and effectiveness on the Capella category dashboard.
Embedded risk management and change management planning to leave you with a ready-to-go implementation program.
Everything you need for effective cross-functional category management is embedded - 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, plus many more!

Capability Development

Whether you choose Guided mode or Advanced Practitioner mode, Capella features in-built capability development 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 category management as you go.

Featuring 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.

Real-time Benefits Tracking

Track category progress and benefits realization across a range of benefits aligned to your goals.

Savings tracking and confidence of realization.
Sustainability benefits tracking including ‘positive impact story’ capture to sell the benefits.
Track other qualitative benefits including risk reduction, supplier innovation and improved value.
Full management dashboard to see all categories at a glance and total benefits vs targets.

Collaboration Engine

Easy global collaboration with a wide range of business stakeholders to jointly work on, approve and implement category strategies. Achieve business alignment and buy-in with a common purpose and way of working.

Cross-functional collaboration made easy - procurement becomes a welcomed and embedded partner to every function business-wide.
Craft strategies the business will support through extensive business involvement at every step.
Real time collaboration on key tools or steps within category management.
Easy synthesis of multiple views, ideas and requirements to arrive at one single, agreed outcome.

Governance Dashboard

Complete user and management information dashboards with the ability to view status and benefits across all category strategy.

Real-time indicators of category strategy health including total difficulty level, power available, 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 category strategy progress and total benefits realization against targets.
Gives confidence that teams are progressing well and producing optimum strategies to realize targets.

Our approach for generating multi-layered strategic options is pragmatic and proven

Capella’s built-in intelligence is powered by the proven 5i^® category management process - the global benchmark for good category management for the past 20 years.

What our customers are saying

Read what our customers have to say about our intelligent strategic procurement tool.

Capella elevates the SaaS marketplace with its exceptional built-in intelligence that sets a new standard. There are many claims out there of similar products being intelligent, but Capella is the only one built around something of substance; the 5i category management process. The inclusion of sustainability is timely too - I look forward to more innovations from this company!

Senior Procurement Manager

Sustainable Tech organization

Capella is simple to use and does what it says. It guides my entire team towards a series of sourcing options for an area of spend, helping us decide which one is most suited to our situation. I can then output a category strategy for the leadership team to approve and make happen. I love how this tool has challenged us by leading us somewhere unexpected - stopping us taking the easy way out!

Category Buyer

Telecommunications organization

As a fairly new category manager, Capella has been invaluable in giving me confidence in developing my category management strategy. I am learning and doing at the same time, and have even started using ‘Advanced Practitioner’ mode to work the tools myself.

Category Manager

Retail organization

This tool is a game changer! Finally, a solution that overcomes the age-old problem of driving meaningful benefits through category management. Capella removes the possibility of my team presenting months of work in a lengthy powerpoint presentation and an underwhelming category strategy.

Chief Procurement Officer

Healthcare organization