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Power your category management with Matchory
As a Senior Category Manager you play an increasingly important role in the success of your organisation supporting profitability, compliance, risk management, innovation and many other areas. At Matchory we understand that this is an extremely challenging role because of the broad range of responsibilities that you have to manage whilst balancing day-to-day tasks with strategic initiatives.Matchory’s AI-powered Supplier Discovery Platform can help make life easier in many ways.
17% ROI/project*
Avg. based on hundreds of performed sourcing cases
3x more suppliers*
Compared to the results of semi-automated supplier scouting
95% faster*
Compared to the semi-automated search approach
Category managers increasingly become core value drivers for strategy procurement
Category Strategy
Users of Matchory can perform continuous analysis of supply market to monitor new entrants and compare sub-sectors. Rapid identification of alternative global suppliers can also support your cost reduction and product/service availability processes
“Matchory helps us to easily obtain very comprehensive information on the players in the markets relevant for us”
DR. Alexander Brandt
- Chief expert digitization in market and competitor analysis
- Chief expert digitization in market and competitor analysis
Supplier & Sourcing Selection
The heart of Matchory is the ability for companies to rapidly scan entire markets for suppliers meeting specific, detailed requirements for quality, cost, reliability, sustainability etc.
By identifying a larger number of potential suppliers faster and better than possible with manual approaches category managers can ensure a competitive and balanced supplier base.
“By leveraging advanced supplier screening tools and a comprehensive database,Jungheinrich was able toaddress its supply chain challenges effectively.”
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Cost Optimization
Identifying and pursuing cost-savings within your category is a key component of your cost optimisation work and Matchory can help by rapidly identifying suppliers to add competition to your negotiations and challenge your incumbents
“A global security group is starting a multi-year project to challenge hundreds of their top suppliers when they come up for renewal by having pre-identified alternate suppliers to give them a strong negotiating position”
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Risk Management
Supply chain resilience in the face of geopolitical risks or potential disruptions is a constant concern and you must develop contingency plans and strategies.
Matchory helps you reduce supplier dependency, and power alternative sourcing strategies with the ability to quicky and accurately identify alternate suppliers that meet your requirements and comply with your standards.
“Heavy rainfall had disrupted the supply chain for an essential chemical raw material needed for production. The shortage of this raw material supplier posed a challenge for production planning as well as project and time management.”
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Market & Supplier Analysis
A key benefit of using Matchory’s Supplier Discovery platform is the ability to set up, run and refresh as many supplier scans as you want, whenever you want and get instant results back.
Our category manager customers use this facility to do continuous assessment of their supplier markets: looking for emerging suppliers; comparing availability in different regions; identifying emerging regions and adapting their strategies as conditions change.
“Matchory played a critical role, in identifying new suppliers and in conducting an initial market analysis—covering market size, supplier barriers, spend analysis, and the development of our commodity groups”
Internal Stakeholder Collaboration
The best category managers are expert collaborators who work closely with colleagues, stakeholders and suppliers.
Matchory is designed to support these collaborative efforts by offering the ability to invite others to work on scouting projects, long-list processing and aspects of supplier feedback.
“Matchory played a critical role, in identifying new suppliers and in conducting an initial market analysis—covering market size, supplier barriers, spend analysis, and the development of our commodity groups”
Sustainability & Compliance
The Matchory Supplier Discovery platform can support your ESG-related processes by bringing transparency to your supply base.If the suppliers in your market public reference any certifications or qualifications that are important to your company then they will be rapidly identified and added to the longlist for you to review.
Furthermore Mats, our AI copilot will help determine which certifications are relevant to your search so that you don’t miss anything important.
“Matchory played a critical role, in identifying new suppliers and in conducting an initial market analysis—covering market size, supplier barriers, spend analysis, and the development of our commodity groups”
DR. Alexander Brandt
Supplier Innovation
The Matchory Supplier Discovery platform can support your innovation-related tasks by helping you find new and emerging suppliers that can fit the specific needs of your internal stakeholders.
These exciting new suppliers could be used directly or you could use them to challenge your existing suppliers to innovate faster in the directions you need.
“Matchory helps us to easily obtain very comprehensive information on the players in the markets relevant for us”
DR. Alexander Brandt
- Chief expert digitization in market and competitor analysis
- Chief expert digitization in market and competitor analysis
“Our goal was to answer: ‘What should procurement look like in 2030?’ Our focus was to achieve three key objectives; align on a strategic direction; assess our procurement team’s competencies and improve our commodity groups. Matchory played a critical role, in identifying new suppliers and in conducting an initial market analysis—covering market size, supplier barriers, spend analysis, and the development of our commodity groups.”
Jörg Stolz Director Procurement & Logistics - Reifenhäuser
Jörg Stolz Director Procurement & Logistics - Reifenhäuser
Category Manager Benefits in one single interfact.
Sourcing must become more efficient, resilient and sustainable. We support category managers to create maximum value based on global supplier data. Make smarter decisions and enter the era of autonomous procurement.
Mitigated risks
Over 50 different data sources help to better assess suppliers and reduce risks in the supply chain. Make the best possible decision when selecting suppliers.
Holistic database
We aggregate millions of data points about suppliers and compile them into a unique database.
Market intelligence
Our advanced search utilizes state-of-the-art search engine technology combined with big data and artificial intelligence.
High transparency
Gain deep insights into global supply chains and discover which companies are collaborating with other businesses.
Lower costs
Identify and compare all relevant manufacturers while eliminating costly middlemen. This can lead to cost savings of up to 45%.
Increased efficiency
A holistic approach enables the automated comparison of 100 times more suppliers per request, saving your company both time and money.