Traditional category management is difficult to implement, cause today's markets and companies are highly dynamic. Whether ECLASS or own categories ... rigid structures are inflexible. Let's assume that there is "perfect order" in your ERP system. How long does it take, before this order turns into disorder, when hundreds of people manually assign items to a category? You know the answer. But category management is strategically important for companies! A dilemma. ACM - adaptive category management is the solution.

Wouldn't it be wonderful, if items knew independently, to which category they belonged? If no rigid structures had to be filled, but the product groups formed independently - depending on the view of the items. A procurement department (market view) has different criteria for the grouping of items than a management. A product development department, on the other hand, looks at items from a technical point of view. But how do you move from traditional product group management to adaptive product group management? We recommend a 4-phase model:

• Recording of the current situation and development of the concept (target state)
• Get clean - clean and optimize existing commodity groups using algorithms (see DIC - data integrity checker)
• Proof of concept of ACM - adaptive category management based on 2-3 selected categories (optimization algorithms)
• Phased implementation of ACM - adaptive category management

Of course, the characteristics of category management vary from company to company. Accordingly, a different process model must be selected. Adaptive material group management is impressive in any case. Talk to us - we will answer your questions.