Capella – the AI-powered Guided Category Strategy Creator®
Discover the unique difference of Capella
It’s not just another AI tool!
Capella is the next generation of category management software. It's a 5i® and AI-powered guided category strategy creator that, when well implemented in your organization, will enable you to realize breakthrough benefits and game changing category management strategies.
Capella distils our 22 years’ experience of embedding Category Management within FTSE100 and Fortune 500 companies spanning multiple industry sectors worldwide as the primary means to drive business benefits from procurement. The result: one very powerful tool that will enable you to create world-leading digital category strategies.
Unlike others, Capella’s intelligence is based around a complex suite of algorithms built upon the 5i® Category Management process – the global benchmark for effective Category Management, augmented with our unique private and protected AI. This means Capella produces category strategies you can trust, and when you link Capella to market or category data, and your internal data, the potential is limitless.
Intelligent, collaborative workflow with real-time benefits tracking
Capella enables seamless business engagement.
The onboard collaboration engine enables real-time cross functional working. Set up your business stakeholders in Capella and jointly work on, approve and implement category management strategies.
Capella drives easy synthesis of multiple views, ideas and requirements to arrive at one single, agreed outcome. This means you can craft category strategies the business will support through extensive business involvement at every step.
Capella’s governance dashboard gives real-time views of status and progress across all categories including benefits tracking of savings, progress towards sustainability goals or other value outcomes.
Digital category management powered by 5i
It’s the process that powers Capella that makes it remarkable.
Capella is the only category management software powered by 5i® Category Management – the proven category management process used across global companies to drive breakthrough results.
5i® is best practice Category Management built upon established concepts including:
- Lean & TQM business improvement principles
- Change management theory
- Team and project management
- A core body of economic and procurement analytics
- Portfolio Analysis (Kraljic)
- Supplier Preferencing
- Day One Analysis
- Porters Five Forces
- and many more!
When properly implemented, 5i will deliver incredible benefits aligned to corporate goals:
- Cost savings or price rise mitigation (with 10-20% being commonplace)
- Supply-side risk reduction
- New value or innovation from the supply base
- Driving supply-side sustainability
5i has the results delivery track record. It’s the power behind Capella, with step-by-step guided progression through the 5i® Category Management process. Capella’s intelligent workflow progressively builds facts and data-based strategic options and will either automatically generate or help you determine the optimum category management strategy.
Set your goals, choose Guided or Advanced Practitioner mode
It’s not just about lowest cost!
Capella adapts to your priorities with precision and agility. Driven by the intelligent strategy engine, it responds to the targets you set, delivering the most relevant category management strategies to realize your goals within the context of the current category, market and macroeconomic factors. Set ‘lowest cost’ as your priority, and Capella will produce the most competitive leveraging strategy the market allows. Make ‘sustainability’ your prime directive, and it will recommend a more relationship-based, long-term category strategy to deliver lasting value.
With your goals defined, choose the mode that works for you or seamlessly switch between the two, depending on how you want to create your category strategy.
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 management strategies.
Let Capella take the lead, with recommendations, support and guidance along the way.
Perfect for those in your team who:
- Are working on smaller or less complex categories.
- Are new to the concept of category management.
- Consider category management part of their job role, but not the entirety of it.
- Want to get an idea of what their quick wins are.
- Want to get an idea of what their strategy is going to look like, before deep diving into it in Advanced Practitioner Mode – use it as a ‘proof of concept’ tool for your more strategic strategies.
Take full control of your category strategy.
Designed for:
- Seasoned Category Managers who are working on larger or more complex categories.
- Getting ‘under the hood’ of the 5i® category management process and tools for a hands-on, customized approach to strategy development.
- Those who are confident in category management – this mode will challenge you and push back, requiring you to critically analyze the intelligent outputs and ask, “what is this telling me?”. The result is a breakthrough strategy you can implement with ease.
Learn as you go
With Capella’s built-in support.
Good knowledge and capability in category management is essential to get the most from Capella, especially when using the Advanced Practitioner mode for complex areas of spend. A skilled user can then really get inside the tool and refine how Capella is working towards the category strategy. Your learning experience is enhanced with video tuition, where we break down and further explain some of the key tools, making sure everyone has a common language and ways of working.
The AI-powered Agent inside Capella is also there to assist you through creating your category strategies. With built-in learning and development, and trained on our 22 years of knowledge, it’s like having one of our training associates there with you, coaching you through each stage of your strategy.
Data security you can trust
Capella gives full confidence in privacy and data security. We are an ISO9001 and an ISO27001 accredited company with Cyber Essentials certification and a silver CyberVadis award.
Capella’s AI is fully ‘wall gardened’ and restricted to our content and only your data, and with hosting in the US, EU and UK to suit your organization, you can ensure your data never leaves your trusted territory.
Click here to read our data policy.
Integrated and fully data driven
Capella integrates with your wider procurement and business systems and can connect with a range of data sources to help make your category strategies even more relevant and fact based. With a range of integration options, Capella can access market, supplier, category, spend and internal data to build the optimum category management strategy.
Capella is available as a module on Procleus - the platform for strategic procurement.
