Easy-to-Use & Industry Agnostic
More than a Category Management Software
The SaaS platform for
Augmented Strategic Procurement Category Management & BEYOND Collaborative Workflow AI powered Market Intelligence Procurement with Purpose
Empower Your Procurement Teams with akirolabs. Create, Execute, and Monitor Intelligent Category Strategies for Higher Value, Higher Purpose and Efficiency.
Trusted by Leading Procurement Teams and Enterprises
Benchmarks show a much higher value potential in strategic procurement
Exploit the Full Value Potential of Procurement
Industry-proven strategic procurement framework embedded into an intuitive collaboration workflow. Enriched with all relevant internal & external data for insights generation


Helping procurement teams accelerate, amplify and sustain business value and integrate strategic procurement in routine
50-90 %
Increased Collaboration within teams
100 %
Mindset Shift to Beyond Category
70-90 %
Stakeholder Buy In & Early Involvement
80 %
Better use of procurement data
Top Voices
What clients and Industry Experts say about akiro
“akirolabs enables us to manage the heterogeneous requirements of all Bertelsmann divisions whilst maximizing the transparency across our jointly defined category strategies.”
“…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.”
" Very few software companies understand the
challenges of a global procurement organisation that supports different businesses across many countries...akirolabs is a true thought leader in this space...Very excited to see the impact they're making for the procurement function"
"An amazing journey that has only just started for akiro...Humbled and proud to have contributed to it so far and extremely excited about what the future will bring!"
Leave Behind the
Broken Traditional Approach
Old School Category Management is not Enough. Transformation of Category Management is now one ot the top priorities for Procurement
- Truly Strategic
- Derived from overarching business objectives
- Sustainable Business Value
- Collaborative platform for all stakeholders
- True ML & AI capabilities with akiroGPT
- Dynamic & Iterative process
Traditional Approach
- Rather Tactical
- Power Game based on Kraljic & Chessboard
- Focus Only on Cost Savings
- Isolated Procurement View
- Rule Based Recommendation
- Rigorous Linear Process
We Are Recognized By Industry
Meet Our Team
We are a dedicated team of experts.
Michael Pleuger
Co-Founder, Strategy & Growth
Detlef Schultz
Co-Founder, Vision & Customers
Christoph Flöthmann
Co-Founder, Product & Technology
Tim Ergenzinger
Co-Founder, Finance & Operations
Dr. Oleksandr Kondratiuk
VP of Engineering
Christian Herdelt
Director of Customer Success
Jens Rassloff
Chairman of the Board
Kanti Prabha
Tech & Customer Success Advisor
Warrick Cramer
Serial Entrepreneur & Advisor
Dr. Karsten Machholz
Chair Customer Advisory Board
Fredrick Spalcke
Advisor | Ex-CPO Philips & Huawei
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