Bridging the Capability Gap in Strategic Procurement
Discover the transformative journey of procurement into a strategic function. Understand the capability gap and how bridging it can lead to procurement excellence.
July 19, 2023
Say hello to Akiro
The SaaS platform for collaborative strategic procurement.
Procurement Strategies with Value & Purpose.
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Introducing akiro
Our SaaS platform boosts your procurement value & purpose
Proven Framework
Consider everything
akirolabs is solving the procurement intelligence problem, the creation of insights and recommendations based on the totality of data across all procurement systems and data feeds. akirolabs represents a new generation of intelligence generating solutions.
Swarm Intelligence
Collaborate with everybody
akirolabs facilitates cross-functional and cross-border sense-making and trade-off-decision making – enabling maximum benefit from a holistic enterprise perspective.
Artificial Intelligence
Gather all insights
Leverage akiro’s market intelligence to find insights, innovation or anything else of relevance for your strategy. Internal and external content is seamlessly integrated into the strategy workflow to foster data-driven decision-making.
Intelligent scenario selection
Define all relevant scenarios
Create strategic options to visualize trade-offs along different dimensions and select the preferred options with the business to bring your strategy to life.
SKills-to-System
Choose your actions
Choose from a repository of state-of-the-art commercial, technical, process and purpose value levers, automatically filtered and suggested based on your previous analyses and defined scenarios.
Knowledge repository
Retain all knowledge
Create a strategy library and knowledge repository accessible to all stakeholders. Ensure that knowledge is retained despite employee turnover or re-organization. Build better strategies grounded in existing organizational knowledge.
Testimonials
Dr. Elouise Epstein
“…what you have created is significant… there is no doubt in my mind that this is a breakthrough innovation…akirolabs is on a trajectory to eliminate much of the category management function as we know it today.”
Dirk Kunz
“akirolabs enables us to manage the heterogeneous requirements of all Bertelsmann divisions whilst maximizing the transparency across our jointly defined category strategies.”
Why Akirolabs?
Leverage our unique capabilities to elevate your procurement to a truly strategic business function
World-class Strategic Procurement Framework
akirolabs is being built upon an award-winning best practice process and enhanced with future-looking and innovative capabilities to drive business foresight.
Swarm Intelligence
akirolabs facilitates cross-functional and cross-border sense-making and trade-off-decision making – enabling maximum benefit from a holistic enterprise perspective.
AI-augmented Market Intelligence
Latest AI/ML capabilities are embedded in the process for real time information, innovation scouting in the web and for auto-sense-making.
Scenario Planning
Our dynamic and continuous strategy development approach facilitates scenario planning and creation of several strategy versions. As a result, you are prepared to react swiftly to events in today’s VUCA world.
Skills-To-System
With our skills-to-system approach we do not only disrupt strategic procurement, but also procurement consulting. We upskill procurement managers to self-sufficiency.
Sustainability
akirolabs has embedded purpose throughout the end-to-end strategic procurement process and toolkit. Dedicated purpose value levers maximize value to the planet and the society. Each strategy is assessed against the ESG framework.
Strategy Cockpit & Knowledge Repository
See the status of all your strategies at a glance. Check out the latest market insights, review your to-dos and join the discussion with your strategy teams. All strategies are stored and accessible in the cloud to create an infinite knowledge repository. Never lose category knowledge again due to employee turnover or distributed databases.
Resources
Check out our thought-provoking pieces on the future of procurement
akirolabs at DPW 2022
akirolabs has presented at DPW 2022!
Watch our Co-Founder Detlef talk about akiro and the future of procurement.
October 5, 2022
The Procuretech Podcast: Spinning a Startup out of Corporate
Learn more about the story behind akirolabs and how it was spun out of a corporate role.
February 9, 2022
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