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Stay on Top of Industry Trends with Jabil’s Exclusive Indirect Category Intelligence
Jabil’s Category Intelligence Reports provide strategic insights into the dynamic landscape of indirect goods and services, helping businesses stay ahead of supply and demand trends, cost fluctuations, and regulatory developments. These reports are essential for tracking indirect manufacturing trends and optimizing manufacturing overhead.
These insights are delivered through our digital Global Category Intelligence Portal, which features industry alerts, interactive heatmaps, and archived reports. Our reports are also available as downloadable PDFs in English and Simplified Chinese. With an active subscription, portal data updates automatically when new reports are released.
Jabil’s category intelligence reports offer in-depth analysis on a range of critical procurement categories, including:
- Global Logistics: Insights on logistics trends in Asia, the Americas, and Europe to help you navigate transportation challenges.
- CAPEX, MRO, Infrastructure: Data-driven analysis on categories such as automation, warehouse solutions, SMT, solder, and maintenance, repair, and operations (MRO).
- Contingent Labor: Regional insights on labor trends in Asia, the Americas, and Europe to support workforce planning and procurement strategies.
- IT Procurement: Insights into infrastructure, cloud services, software, and hardware procurement to streamline IT operations.
- Energy: A comprehensive analysis of key market dynamics shaping global energy pricing and demand, covering factors such as geopolitical risks, supply chain disruptions, and the accelerating shift toward renewable energy.
- Global Trade Compliance: Covers global trade requirements across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, offering compliance and regulation guidance to help businesses navigate complex cross-border challenges.
- Materials Compliance: Expert insights on compliance tracking, sustainability initiatives, and innovative safer material alternatives.
- Digital Adoption Technology: Analysis of emerging digital technologies to enhance procurement processes and supply chain efficiency.
Why Category Intelligence is Crucial for Your Business
The indirect procurement landscape is more complex than ever. Supplier volatility, shifting demand patterns, and evolving regulations have made industry alerts visibility a critical competitive edge. In a market that shifts by the hour, static reports aren’t enough. Indirect spend data, industry insights, and supply chain cost data are now essential for strategic decision-making.
Jabil’s Category Market Intelligence Report provides timely, category-specific analysis powered by billions of daily data signals. The report includes pricing trends, lead time forecasts, and key indicators across indirect categories like energy, labor, IT, logistics, infrastructure, and more.
Here’s how the report helps procurement and sourcing professionals make better, faster decisions:
Improve Cost Visibility
Access heatmaps and commentary that track pricing, supply availability, and demand shifts across key categories. These insights help you identify cost drivers, guide negotiations, and plan ahead with confidence.
Monitor Supply Chain Risks
Gain clarity on how global events, raw material trends, or supplier disruptions affect category-level performance. Industry alerts and updates help teams act before small shifts become major obstacles. Support Smarter, Faster Decisions With rolling 4-quarter outlooks and access to past reports, procurement teams can track market shifts, benchmark performance, and adjust strategies based on evolving trends. With each quarterly update, procurement teams can benchmark performance and adjust strategies based on what’s next.
Strengthen Forecasting Accuracy
The report’s predictive assessments are built on live data from 27,000+ suppliers and $4.5B in spend, making it easier to spot emerging trends, understand their downstream effects, and improve category-level forecasting.
Validate Internal Assumptions
Compare internal sourcing and pricing expectations against independent, third-party indirect intelligence. The report helps reinforce decisions already in progress or flags discrepancies early enough to pivot.
Jabil is Your Trusted Partner in Category Intelligence
Jabil’s category intelligence is built on more than 60 years of hands-on experience managing global indirect procurement at scale. With more than $4.5 billion in annual indirect spend across a sourcing network spanning 27,000+ suppliers, our insights are rooted in the scale and complexity of real-world procurement.
Our indirect category intelligence reports have helped global brands navigate shifting economies, emerging technologies, and evolving supplier landscapes. This experience gives us unique insight into how indirect goods and services respond to real-world pressures, and how to turn those signals into actionable intelligence.
When you partner with Jabil, you gain more than category intelligence, you gain a strategic edge built on firsthand expertise.
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