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What is Category Management Solutions?

Category management solutions allow category managers to create and monitor their midterm to long-term sourcing by enabling strategic management of categories in procurement and supply chain processes. They optimize category performance, enhance supplier relationships, and improve cost efficiencies. The key features include spend analysis, strategic sourcing, supplier management, contract tracking, and analytics. These solutions empower data-driven decision-making, identify cost-saving opportunities, and align category strategies with organizational goals, ultimately driving operational excellence and value delivery.

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Cirtuo

By Cirtuo

4.4
(12 Ratings)

Cirtuo leverages artificial intelligence to recommend holistic category strategies that translate complex business requirements and supply market realities into actionable decisions based on a systematic and standardized framework for category management. By guiding category managers with interview-style questions from demand analysis to strategy creation, it supports quick and efficient decision-making processes that help Procurement mitigate risks, increase efficiency, and unlock hidden savings. With significant investment in research and development, Cirtuo has built strategic procurement software that enhances business impact and maximizes value delivery.

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SAP Ariba Category Management

By SAP

4.1
(10 Ratings)

SAP was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Walldorf, Germany. The company employs over 105,000 people globally and develops software solutions for enterprise resource planning (ERP) and related business functions. SAP’s early products, SAP R/2 and SAP R/3, were widely adopted for managing core business processes. Its current ERP platform, SAP S/4HANA, uses in-memory computing to support data-intensive operations and integrates capabilities such as artificial intelligence and machine learning.

SAP offers a portfolio of software applications that support various business functions across industries. These applications are designed to operate on a unified digital platform. As of 2025, SAP reports over 230 million cloud users and provides more than 100 solutions. The company’s offerings are used by organizations to manage finance, human resources, procurement, supply chain, and other operational areas.

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Beroe

By Beroe

3.7
(8 Ratings)

Beroe is recognized on a global scale as a provider of procurement intelligence and analytics through a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. Its key functionality lies in delivering intelligent, data-centric insights that guide firms towards informed sourcing decisions. These informed decisions invariably contribute to cost savings, risk mitigation, and profit enhancement. Beroe's establishment spans over a period of 15 years, during which it has aligned with innumerable companies across the world.

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GEP SMART

By GEP

3.8
(8 Ratings)

GEP is a global enterprise specializing in transformative supply chain solutions. It offers agile and resilient operations to enhance efficiency and productivity, while boosting profitability and shareholder value. GEP is comprised of three entities: GEP SOFTWARE, GEP STRATEGY, and GEP MANAGED SERVICES, all of which work collectively to address supply chain challenges. With the aid of its innovative products and dedicated team, GEP continues to cater to enterprises globally, assisting in the attainment of strategic, financial, and operational goals. As an AI-first, cloud-native company, GEP uses digital business platforms to support and streamline processes. It is a global enterprise, headquartered in Clark, New Jersey, with operational centers across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

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JAGGAER ONE

By JAGGAER

4.6
(3 Ratings)

JAGGAER fundamentally operates as a pioneer within the Autonomous Commerce sector. The enterprise has engineered a self-operating B2B commercial experience inclusive of buyers, suppliers, and partners utilizing Internet of Things (IoT) technology. It enables a substantial flow of goods annually, across its Enterprise Commerce Network. AI and machine learning technology underpin JAGGAER's innovative procurement solutions, aligning the requirements of buyers with the competencies of suppliers via smart-match recommendations. These solutions are designed to autonomously conduct recurrent, backstage tasks required for facilitating commerce on the enterprise level. With a workforce exceeding 1,200, the focus of JAGGAER's operations revolves around ensuring customer success.

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Simfoni

By Simfoni

4.2
(2 Ratings)

Simfoni offers a software platform that includes Spend Analytics, eSourcing, and Tail Spend Management solutions. The platform leverages machine learning and artificial intelligence to quicken and automate key elements of the procurement process. By these solutions, Simfoni promotes efficiency and contributes to the objective of a sustainable supply chain. With a presence in the USA, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East, Simfoni attempts to enhance vendor diversity and meet strategic corporate objectives.

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Ivalua Strategic Sourcing

By Ivalua

5
(1 Rating)

Ivalua is a provider of cloud-based Source-to-Pay solutions. Our complete, unified platform empowers businesses to effectively manage all categories of spend and all suppliers, increasing profitability, improving ESG performance, lowering risk, and improving employee productivity. We are trusted by over 400 organizations across the world, many of whom are admired brands.

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Kodiak Hub

By Kodiak Hub

4
(1 Rating)

Kodiak Hub provides an exhaustive supplier relationship management solution. Powered by big data, smart automation, and AI, it caters to precise and informed procurement needs. Its main functionality revolves around the creation of cloud-based software designed for global procurement and sourcing teams. Kodiak Hub's software facilitates smart procurement methods, sustains supplier relationships and potentially uncovers value within global supply chains. In addition, it features a diverse range of supplier relationship management tools for capturing supplier data, identifying supply chain risks, contract management, category management, document and product management, supply chain compliance assessment, supplier performance evaluation, and facilitation of buyer-supplier innovation.

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Planergy

By Planergy

4
(1 Rating)

Planergy, with its global network of offices, provides a Spend Management platform, designed to assist mid-market businesses across various industries. With its easy-to-use user interface, onboarding is made faster. The platform automates the entire Procure-to-Pay and AP Automation process, offering real-time reporting dashboards, approval automation, bottleneck removal, budget management control, and alignment of Purchase Orders with Receiving and AP Automation. Through the digitization of the Procure-to-AP-Automation process, Planergy offers substantial savings. It eradicates rogue purchasing and off-contract buying, reduces invoice fraud, and enhances compliance and accountability. The AP-Automation aspect significantly reduces the processing time necessary for entering and three-way matching purchase orders to deliveries to vendor invoices, utilizing OCR, Machine Learning, and A.I.

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Brooklyn Platform

By Brooklyn Solutions

Brooklyn Solutions automates Commercial Value Management (CVM), streamlining post-contract processes with AI-driven policy and governance. Double productivity and deliver Customer-Supplier value management at lower risk with the Brooklyn platform.

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QAD Supplier Management

By QAD

Founded in 1979 and headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, QAD Inc. is a provider of next-generation manufacturing and supply chain solutions in the cloud. Global manufacturers face ever-increasing disruption caused by technology-driven innovation and changing consumer preferences. In order to survive and thrive, manufacturers must be able to innovate and change business models at unprecedented rates of speed. QAD calls these companies Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprises. QAD solutions help customers in the automotive, life sciences, consumer products, food and beverage, high tech and industrial manufacturing industries rapidly adapt to change and innovate for competitive advantage. Over 2,000 manufacturing companies have deployed QAD solutions including enterprise resource planning (ERP), digital supply chain planning (DSCP), global trade and transportation execution (GTTE) and enterprise quality management system (EQMS) to become an Adaptive Manufacturing Enterprise.

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RENOVATIO

By Rman sync

Established in 2019 in Caen, Normandy, RMAN Sync specializes in the software industry for the home improvement market in France. The founders identified a business need to enhance organizational performance and change business operations by developing Deep Learning solutions. The company received mentorship from a start-up incubator initially.

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SpendHQ

By SpendHQ

SpendHQ is a provider of advanced Spend Intelligence and Procurement Performance Management solutions. These solutions aim to assist procurement processes by offering a centralised system for the classification of all spend data, as well as managing the entire sourcing project pipeline and results. Consequently, this facilitates progress to be made according to set plans. It assists procurement leaders in managing the strategic impact and effectiveness of their practices. It encourages collaboration opportunities and enhances transparency among financial personnel and top management. It aids organisations with their strategic priorities and sets goals to demonstrate the impact and value of procurement processes in a data-driven, transparent manner. They offer products that are known for their efficient return on investment. These products are designed to enhance planning, oversight of outcomes, and reporting mechanisms.

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Unit4 Source-to-contract by Scanmarket

By Unit4

Legal Suite is a global provider of Enterprise Legal Technology, offering a software solution catered to business law professions. The software includes a suite of modules under the brand name GaLexy, designed to address the daily needs of legal departments. These areas include Contracts, Matter Management, Litigation, Intellectual Property, E-Billing, and Power of Attorney among others. In addition, Legal Suite brings expertise in Enterprise Legal Management (ELM), Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) and Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), applicable to various industries. The company is a division of the Septeo Group that supports varied legal professions globally. With offices in North America, United Arab Emirates, and Europe, Legal Suite has a rich experiential background extending over 18 years, with a large number of projects, customers, and users worldwide.

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