Category analysis model to facilitate procurement of goods and services

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer program code for facilitating strategic procurement embodied thereon, the computer program code comprising:

• instructions for receiving and arithmetically totaling numerical demand characteristics input for each of a plurality of categories of goods and services, wherein the demand characteristics define a degree of control that an entity possesses over a need to consume based on uniqueness of requirements, amount of consumption and internal patterns of consumption;
• instructions for receiving and arithmetically totaling numerical supply characteristics input for each of the plurality of categories of goods and services, wherein the supply characteristics define a degree of risk and exposure that the entity incurs based on continuity of supply, cost volatility, implicit supplier leverage, and protection of information;
• instructions for plotting the plurality of categories of goods and services on a two-dimensional graph, wherein a first axis of the graph represents the arithmetic total of supply characteristics and a second axis of the graph represents the arithmetic total of demand characteristics for a category of goods and services instructions for generating a strategic procurement guide that includes the plotted graph, wherein the plotted graph defines a first quadrant configured to plot categories of goods and services as a clear strategic procurement candidate, a second quadrant configured to plot categories of goods and services as a possible strategic procurement candidate, a third quadrant configured to plot categories of goods and services as a possible procurement candidate and a fourth quadrant configured to plot categories of goods and services as a clear procurement candidate;
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• instructions for displaying the strategic procurement guide to a user.

A system for facilitating strategic procurement comprising:

• a computing device having a memory and a processor in communication with the memory;
• an instruction execution platform stored in the memory, executable by the processor and configured to arithmetically total numerical demand characteristics and supply characteristics input for each of a plurality of categories of goods and services, plot the plurality of categories of goods and services on a two-dimensional graph, wherein a first axis of the graph represents the arithmetic total of supply characteristics and a second axis of the graph represents the arithmetic total of demand characteristics for a category of goods and services and to generate a strategic procurement guide that includes the plotted graph, wherein the plotted graph defines a first quadrant configured to plot categories of goods and services as a clear strategic procurement candidate, a second quadrant configured to plot categories of goods and services as a possible strategic procurement candidate, a third quadrant configured to plot categories of goods and services as a possible procurement candidate and a fourth quadrant configured to plot categories of goods and services as a clear procurement candidate;
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• data set storage functionally connected to the instruction execution platform to store data sets of demand and supply characteristics and strategic procurement guides, wherein the demand characteristics define a degree of control that an a entity possesses over a need to consume based on uniqueness of requirements, amount of consumption and internal patterns of consumption and the supply characteristics define a degree of risk and exposure that the entity incurs based on continuity of supply, cost volatility, implicit supplier leverage, and protection of information.