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Stay on top of risks with comprehensive metrics, continuous updates, dynamic scoring and transparent assessment for all suppliers. Robust, unbiased, contextualised intelligence and analytics across all stages of the category management lifecycle. Self-service access to the latest market insights on 400+ categories, and sustainability and innovation trends across key industry sectors
Stay on top of risks with comprehensive metrics, continuous updates, dynamic scoring and transparent assessment for all suppliers. Robust, unbiased, contextualised intelligence and analytics across all stages of the category management lifecycle. Self-service access to the latest market insights on 400+ categories, and sustainability and innovation trends across key industry sectors.
Bulk assignments save time
and improve productivity of
users during task creation;
obsolete tasks can be
removed just as easily
Email notifications for new
tasks, notes update, change
of status, upload of new files,
and reminders to keep risk
mitigation tasks on track
Clear roles drive
responsibility as well as
accountability; priority labels
drive focus on tasks that
matter more than others
Notes for ongoing updates
makes collaboration easier;
confidential notes can be
marked as ‘internal’ for
restricted viewing
Smart listing of tasks, quick
role changes, easy
duplication of tasks, and
open search make risk
mitigation effortless
Stay on top of risks with comprehensive metrics, continuous updates, dynamic scoring and transparent assessment for all suppliers. Robust, unbiased, contextualised intelligence and analytics across all stages of the category management lifecycle. Self-service access to the latest market insights on 400+ categories, and sustainability and innovation trends across key industry sectors.
The Smart Cube and CASME share similar ethics as our insights are not influenced by suppliers or sponsors, making this alliance an ideal fit. CASME members worldwide will greatly benefit from being able to use The Smart Cube’s regional market intelligence at our events, which will also help to validate their category strategies.
Graham Crawshaw, Global Services Director, CASME
Ultimately, The Smart Cube has created a comprehensive solution to understand what’s really driving the markets, encompassing both equity indices and single stocks, currencies, rates, commodities, credit and volatility markets, which enables us to help our clients make profitable trades. “The Smart Cube understands what I am thinking and what I am trying to achieve thanks to a good working relationship and a team with extensive experience in quant modelling. I think of The Smart Cube as a partner, not as a supplier.”
QI CEO, Krishnan Sadasivam
Once we identified the challenge we wanted to address, we handed it off to The Smart Cube team and they took care of everything. The whole research project was handled professionally, and delivered on schedule. We got data, we asked questions, we got answers. It was the perfect solution for us.
Rob Wilson, Chief Toaster
As The Smart Cube has evolved, I've had the opportunity to evolve with it - gaining skills across PR, communications, content generation, and sales enablement. The dynamic nature of the company has kept me engaged, and significantly improved my skillset.
Jenny Rushforth
Stay on top of risks with comprehensive metrics, continuous updates, dynamic scoring and transparent assessment for all suppliers. Robust, unbiased, contextualised intelligence and analytics across all stages of the category management lifecycle. Self-service access to the latest market insights on 400+ categories, and sustainability and innovation trends across key industry sectors. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Etiam iaculis ante quis neque fermentum pellentesque. Morbi hendrerit ut felis eu viverra. Proin vestibulum est in quam vulputate, non eleifend libero rutrum. Curabitur molestie ac massa vitae pretium. Curabitur non nulla fringilla, mattis dui non, lobortis mi. Nulla magna purus, tempor vel dictum id, tempus vitae risus.
Identify emerging opportunities to cut costs, improve sustainability and lower risk before their competitors
Translate major trends and industry events into actionable innovation strategies that drive value in their categories
Understand the underlying drivers behind sudden price changes, and use that insight to mitigate the business impact
Provide timely guidance on the levers that can be employed to reduce long-term risk and drive sustainable cost savings
Understand evolving business needs and stakeholder demands and ensure category strategies and approaches are fit for purpose
Every organisation and procurement team has unique category intelligence requirements. So, we’ve designed a modular solution where you define what you need, based on your specifications. With Category Intelligence from The Smart Cube, you can select capabilities and insights from across four modular elements:
Our proprietary platform Amplifi PRO contains 400+ category reports, 12,500+ cost structures, 1,200+ commodity price datasets, and innovation intelligence for key categories.
Request contextualised intelligence in the form of alternative sourcing destinations, supplier capability assessments, negotiation fact packs, should cost models and spend optimisation opportunities.
Get proactive, custom insights on opportunities and risks for your strategic categories, including analyst alerts, commodity price forecasts and key supply market developments.
Get everything you need to enhance category decision-making in one place – including should-cost models, strategy development tools, critical supplier frameworks, and more.
With Category Intelligence from The Smart Cube, you can:
The Category Intelligence solution we deliver is built around you. Through close collaboration and a custom, modular approach, we create a bespoke intelligence solution, designed to support your specific goals and needs. Here’s how our process works:
When you choose Category Intelligence from The Smart Cube, you always get:
The client’s category team was unable to control the rising spend on thermoforms due to a limited understanding on the evolving dynamics on supply, visibility on cost model and supplier base.
We assessed the supply chain and stakeholders bargaining power; different end-use market demand; level of vertical integration and cost model to devise a better negotiation strategy for sourcing raw material and finished goods for thermoforms within the packaging category.
The negotiation strategy helped the category team achieve 10% ($2 million) savings on a spend of $20 million.
With access to multiple subscription sources, category teams were struggling to curate insights from all the clutter, making it difficult to meet their business needs and sourcing priorities.
We created custom category monitors for 35 specific ingredients (including colours, fruits, enzymes, flavours and nuts) based on spend and priorities. The monitors included price forecasts, correlation calculators, supplier risk, new innovations, cost structures and supply demand outlooks, all to identify key opportunities and risks.
The category monitors helped the category teams easily access critical information on a self-serve basis, and identify key levers to manage their categories better, ultimately saving time and money for the business.
The client wanted options to achieve cost savings in sourcing tin can bales in Europe so turned to The Smart Cube to investigate how it could improve its sourcing processes.
We studied the recycling process of tin cans and evaluated the supply chain of scrap processors in Europe to gauge scrap capacity, and key locations and suppliers in the region. We recommended altering certain sourcing practices and shifting to few ferrous scrap processors with robust supply chains.
The client improved its sourcing process and switched suppliers to save £4.7 million per year.