Industrial manufacturers have long faced many challenges — intense global competition, fluctuating commodity prices, ever-shifting tariff and trade regimes and more. But with the emergence of Industry 4.0 technologies, a new focus on supply assurance, and the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled capabilities, the challenges — and possibilities — have never been greater. In this environment, industrial manufacturers are balancing supply chain cost and risk optimization, reassessing partnerships and leveraging new digital platforms. Enter GEP.
Driving Performance Through Tailored Solutions
Our Approach
GEP partners with many of the world’s leading industrial manufacturers to optimize their supply chain performance, build their agility and harness new technologies that make them more competitive, especially during times of volatility.
Our subject-matter experts, manufacturing engineers, transformation consultants, supply chain technologists and data scientists are at the forefront of this revolution, working together to provide tailored solutions that improve performance, lower costs and risk, and drive overall profitability.
We help clients select and deploy the best technologies — including GEP NEXXE™, our AI-powered, unified supply chain software platform — to create more agile and adaptive factories, supply chains and material flows. Our procurement consultants and managed services teams ensure maximum cost-effectiveness and value-add.
Our Solutions
GEP offers a comprehensive suite of solutions tailored for the industrial manufacturing sector, recognizing the unique complexities shaped by extensive histories, multiple M&As, and intricate legacy systems. Our integrated offerings range from opportunity analysis and market intelligence to full source-to-pay (S2P) processes and digital procurement transformation. Co-created with Fortune 50 clients, these solutions address the multifaceted challenges of modern manufacturing, driving productivity and strategic insight.
- Digital supply chain optimization: Includes restructuring services and integrated planning model design.
- Strategic cost management: Focuses on cost reduction programs and digital transformations from source to settle.
- Supplier and enterprise risk management: Enhances control over third-party risks and supply chain vulnerabilities.
- Supply chain planning and segmentation: Optimizes operations across customers, products, and parts, coupled with business process outsourcing.
- Digital procurement transformation Streamlines procurement activities through digital master data management and advanced analytics for should-cost models, price discovery, and supply market intelligence.
- Sustainability solutions: Implements sustainable practices in procurement and supply chain operations.
- M&A services: Offers clean-room services, post-merger integration, and synergy cost-reduction programs.
- Digital working capital solutions: Improves liquidity and financial efficiency.
Advanced analytics: Leverages data for inventory optimization and better decision-making.
Our Track Record
We deliver maximum value in purchasing process support, but it doesn’t end there. We look beyond that dimension and create a holistic total cost of ownership for companies and supply chains, maximizing our clients’ market proposition to investors and customers.
Our track record:
- GEP led the digital procurement transformation initiative for a Fortune 50 industrial equipment producer that helped it retool its global model for the modern age, delivering over $500B in P&L impact.
- GEP led the radical re-structuring of a European industrial giant to reduce its third-party run-rate costs by over 30% while building a digitally led procurement model to sustain the company’s agile and lean supply chain operations.
CASE STUDIES
$45 M
Saved in direct material sourcing for a global heavy equipment manufacturer
20%
Cost Benefit achieved for a leading U.S. battery manufacturer
40 %
Lead time reduced through regional sourcing for U.S.-based manufacturer
Industry insights
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Global Heavy Equipment Manufacturer Saves $45M in Direct Material Sourcing With GEP SOFTWARE
We selected GEP software as an integral part of our overarching digitalization program to optimize our sourcing and procurement processes across the company and deliver greater value.
Luc Vankemmelbeke
Chief Procurement Officer, Bekaert
