Category Management

Quickly understand a vendor category and browse alternatives

Extensive Coverage:
Our extensive database contains over 2,100 categories and 100,000 suppliers.
Find what you’re looking for:
You can search and explore by department, category, supplier, or product.
RFP templates:
Identify critical and nice-to-have technical features in a category.
Internal discussion guide:
Align with stakeholders and budget owners using our list of questions that will help you uncover your specific business requirements.
Vendor discussion guide:
Access a list of questions that you should ask in a vendor discussion to find the best solution for your company.
Collaboration:
Use the notes and comments sections to keep track of key info in one centralized place that is to access the next renewal.

Find credible alternatives for your suppliers

Alternatives table:
Get a thorough list of companies that offer similar capabilities to those of your current vendor.
Category Relevance:
For your current vendor, see which capabilities are most relevant to your current deal.
Company Relevance:
See companies within a category sorted by their relevance and market presence. Companies that are already in your supplier base will be ranked at the top.
Alternatives

Supplier Profiles

Category Utilization:
Understand supplier usage across categories for better decision-making.
Comprehensive Intelligence:
Access supplier details like categories, deal status, and financials.
AI Supplier Insights:
Discover how your company uses each supplier. Gain a deeper understanding of key spending patterns, product usage trends, and unclassified purchases for each of your suppliers.
Supplier Profiles

Compare Vendors

Tailored Insights:
Identify top performers with category-specific research.
Multi-Dimensional Evaluation:
Compare vendors on market leadership, Fortune 500 presence, functionality, open source flexibility and pricing.
Evaluate Breadth of Offerings:
Quickly understand the number of categories a product covers as well as the overall scope of the entire company.
Compare Vendors

Explore Key Insights on Category Leaders

Unique Value Propositions:
Discover what makes each vendor stand out in the market.
Customer Fit:
Determine the target market for each vendor’s products or services.
Funding and Acquisitions:
Track financial growth and strategic partnerships.
Product Updates and Integrations:
Stay up to date on individual product launches and assess compatibility with your tech stack.
Category Leaders

Business-school analysis on each of your categories

Kraljic matrix:
Get an auto-generated matrix that sorts suppliers based on their criticality and risk.
Porter's 5 forces:
Quickly understand a category's competitive landscape, including competition, new entrants, substitutes, buyer power, and supplier power.
SWOT analysis:
See the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of any supplier.
Risk assessments:
Review financials, supply chain disruption, reputational, security, and other risk factors for a supplier.

Cut through the noise with comprehensive research on vendors and their respective categories