How do private equity companies benefit from partnering with GEP? By achieving faster time to value and realizing long-term sustainable benefits, they reduce costs, improve operational efficiencies, and unlock greater value across their portfolios.
As a global leader in supply chain transformation, we offer a comprehensive suite of supply chain management solutions – plan, procure, make, and deliver – designed to drive procurement and supply chain excellence. We collaborate with PE firms across the entire investment lifecycle to optimize procurement and supply chain costs.
We Help Private Equity Companies Derive More Value from Procurement
At GEP, we supercharge your procurement function to help your business achieve new levels of efficiency. From strategic cost management and digital procurement transformation to supplier diversity and sustainability, our solutions are perfectly designed for new-age private equity companies.
Our Approach
GEP partners with PE firms across the entire investment lifecycle to optimize procurement and supply chain costs. The result: greater profitability and enhanced portfolio valuation. From opportunity assessments in the pre-acquisition phase to supply chain restructuring and cross-portfolio cost reduction to exit planning, GEP delivers and sustains savings.
Our Solutions
What makes us stand out amongst the competition? Our end-to-end, unified solutions — GEP STRATEGY, GEP SOFTWARE and GEP MANAGED SERVICES — work in concert to deliver high-performing solutions of unprecedented scale, power and effectiveness. And we can do it across almost any sector thanks to our global reach and hundreds of in-house category experts.
Our Track Record
With nearly two decades of experience working with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, GEP knows how to handle challenges across a wide range of industries.
- GEP helped a pharma enterprise transform its supply chain to unlock significant capacity in owned plants. It reduced about $200M in working capital and optimized their network to achieve a 9% reduction in overall supply chain costs.
- GEP’s partnership with a CPG chemical company for operating model redesign and procurement transformation resulted in a 40+% OPEX reduction. We delivered a 10+% cost reduction on external purchases and a 15% improvement in working capital.
- GEP helped an oil and gas enterprise integrate its inventory and supplier management activities. GEP improved spend visibility, slashed inventory costs by 12% and implemented a new VMI program with key suppliers.
- GEP helped a chemicals enterprise, which was being spun off from a large conglomerate, establish itself as a standalone organization. GEP reviewed thousands of contracts for segmentation, developed TSAs, managed exit from TSAs within 12 months and provided procurement leadership and resources for day-to-day operational stability.
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