Current Situation
Category management is a time-consuming effort that involves historical spend analysis, line-of-business coordination, objective and goal setting, market analysis, and sourcing execution.
Goals and Objectives
The goal involves leveraging autonomous platforms that are informed by past spend, market analysis, opportunity optimization, and sourcing complexity to generate a complete category profile that provides timelines, suggested sources of supply, optimization strategies, and risks to execution.
Technology Deployed
Enterprise hardware, personal devices, cloud, big data/analytics, mobile, applications, connectivity services, cognitive, next-generation security
Use Case Summary
It involves category plan generation in near real time to guide the overall category plan and drive execution to meet user-generated goals and objectives.