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Coupa buys Cirtuo, adds category management to its spend management suite

Spend Matters

Coupa announced during its Inspire 2025 event that it has acquired Cirtuo, a provider of category management (CatMan) software. The move addresses a long-standing gap in many procurement technology offerings: helping teams define and manage procurement strategies, rather than just executing sourcing events. What is Cirtuo?

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Why Your Business Needs a Category Management Strategy!

Supply Chain Game Changer

Subscribe What’s the Difference Between Commodity Management and Category Management? The business that is selling either raw materials or processed goods has to deal with inventory management. By labeling and sorting the products based on categories, it is easier for a consumer to pick what they need.

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Category management vs strategic sourcing – so much fuss for little difference?

Future Purchasing

From our research, it is clear that many organisations still see category management as simply another term for strategic sourcing. However, we believe that category management and strategic sourcing focus on different aspects and have distinct goals. It is often an output from a category strategy.

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Addressing the future challenges for Category Management

Future Purchasing

The 2024 Global Category Management Report is an assessment of the current state of Category Management in Procurement. Therefore, we included a question asking participants to identify their greatest challenge for category management in the future.

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Next Phase of AI & Digital Category Management

Future Purchasing

Clearly, there is a potent argument for developing a category strategy for AI support in procurement, as all the key stages in category management immediately apply to understanding what we want and need. This is often a manual process and influenced by recency, familiarity, history, and data-free opinions.

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How to accelerate your Category Management adoption in 2025

Future Purchasing

This article outlines how to perform a maturity assessment of your category management practices and translate the findings into actionable improvement opportunities and accelerate adoption. That is why we have developed the Future Purchasing Maturity Assessment. We are hardwired to compare ourselves to others.

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What Is E-Procurement? Understanding Modern Digital Procurement Systems

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Unlike basic online purchasing tools, a sophisticated e-procurement system provides an integrated solution that connects all procurement functions. If you’re beginning to explore e-procurement, you’ve probably been grappling with manual approvals that delay purchases and limited visibility into spend.