Category Updates
Make contextualized category alerts your best insurance cover against potential supply chain opacity, risks, inequities, and other unintended consequences.
Contact usHow your business benefits
Improve bottom-line results with contextualized intelligence
- Know more about hidden cost-saving opportunities with contextualized intelligence
- Preempt costly supply-side risks with timely “issue and metric alerts”
- Get advance notifications to minimize costs associated with demand/supply imbalances
Move your procurement performance to a higher trajectory
- Discover value-for-money suppliers using supplier category intelligence from multiple sources
- Receive updates when volatile commodity prices rise or fall below set threshold values
- Get alerts on impending supply shortages due to factory shutdowns or issues with tier 2 suppliers
Simplify purchase efficiency tracking like never before
- Access real-time supply-side insights to remedy supply chain vulnerabilities instantaneously
- Manage procurement spend better by capturing it at unit levels
- Leverage data to ensure lean operations and discover growth avenues
Turn supply chain issues into business opportunities
- Map out supply risks for each category, then mitigate them
- Know your critical-to-business vendors and put backup plans in place
- Bolster brand reputation on the back of mandatory vendor sustainability scores
First measure, then boost vendor performance
- Develop challenging insights-linked vendor benchmarks and raise them over time
- Turn supplier performance score into a powerful negotiation lever
- Make supplier scorecard the basis for incentivizing or flagging vendors
Accurately monitor price-influencing data to better your forecasts
- Zero-in on data-driven price points for best returns on your money
- Get hold of the factors driving current and future prices
- Make curated category-centric data the cornerstone of your purchase planning
Why choose SpendEdge?
200+ clients and counting
Our client base, numbering more than 200, continues to expand with more Fortune 500s signing up for our premium research services. Our experts curate top-notch data to help CXOs make critical decisions aimed at significantly curbing financial, operational, and reputational risks. Our leading-edge platforms scour the supplier landscape for hard-to-find insights to enable businesses to preempt as well as respond to critical supply disruptions.
The power of thought leadership
Our experts work relentlessly to push the envelope of contextual market research. The success of each client fills us with a certain sense of achievement. Behind every success story is 20 years of our demonstrable leadership in market trends research. This indelible expertise, further underpinned by our home-grown intelligent data tools, is sure to see you through the worst markets.
High returns on research capital
Measuring returns on market research is hard, but doable. Many of our clients assess potential returns on the dollars they invest in market intelligence. Clients keep coming back to us because the evidence speaks for itself. Metrics indicate their relationship with our specialists is worth the time, money, and effort.
All-in-one deals!
Our platform was conceived in the first place as a one-stop for all things sourcing and procurement. So, clients looking for supply-side insights can find all of it in one place. Businesses keen on continuously improving interactions with their supplier network now source cutting-edge market intelligence from our all-under-one-roof hub.
Competitive research and precise outlooks
We deliver incisive analyses of competitors’ supplier networks, giving up-close views of how they are performing and their risk-taking tendencies. Our experts make sure to build in these and more insights on competitors into our intelligence reports. This is for CXOs who are keen to know what the competition is up to.
Quality over quantity
Our experts deliver high-quality research outcomes, and they go the extra mile to make things happen fast while ensuring a hassle-free client experience. The research model we live by converges data from multiple sources. The idea is to spare no effort to help clients see the bigger picture of supply-side dynamics.
Featured Case Study
How SpendEdge Helped CPG Giant Streamline Contract Manufacturer Selection Process
Challenge: Faced with intense competition and the need to improve profit margins, our client turned to SpendEdge for assistance in overcoming their business challenges. One of the main strategies involved migrating cost-intensive operations to low-cost destinations.
Solution: Our team at SpendEdge assisted the client in streamlining their contract manufacturer selection process. Leveraging our expertise and market research methodology, we identified key contract manufacturers for the client’s ready-to-eat product line.
Result: The client successfully addressed their business challenges and achieved improved profit margins and reduced operating costs. All the while, also enhancing product quality and expanding manufacturing capabilities.
It’s vital you stay in the loop with your supply side. Here’s why
Even the best of supply chains can be convoluted, fractured, and under pressure most of the time. In supply matters, prevention is the cure a lot of times. And what better preventative measure than real-time warnings on supply-side issues - filtered by category? Subscribe to our alerts and get notified about supply-side events as they unfold.
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Category Intelligence
Gain insights related to your key spend categories, ranging from important updates, outlook, and engagement models, to in-depth supply-chain risk analysis.
Supplier Intelligence
Improve supplier selection decision making and supplier relationship management through our services covering supplier identification, supplier updates and alerts, and risk and sustainability analysis.
Strategy Support
Improve strategic decision making through our services related to negotiation advisory, best practices, risk mitigations, supplier KPIs and SLAs, and cost optimization mechanisms.
Category Cost and Pricing
Keep a close look at price movements and forecasts for key commodities and the impact of different cost drivers to formulate effective cost reduction strategies.