The telecommunications industry faces evolving challenges: Balancing 5G investments with existing network costs; optimizing margins; acquiring end-to-end strategic procurement support for M&A and divestiture activities; and solving supply chain issues from industry consolidation. To succeed, telecom companies must adapt their supply chain and procurement operations.
GEP partners with telecom firms to help them manage legacy spend, dedicate resources strategically, navigate through complex M&As and divestitures, improve supply chain performance and optimize margins in a rapidly changing marketplace.
Telecom Enterprises Count on GEP to Achieve Amazing Results
$25M
Saved by a multinational telecom provider through eAuctions
$7.3B
Managed spend over three years for a telecom major
8000
Contracts managed by GEP SMART for a telecom major
Driving Telecom Efficiency
The telecom industry faces rapid change. GEP provides the expertise and technology to help you adapt and thrive.
Our Approach
Speed and innovation are essential to drive growth against a backdrop of changing business models and consumption patterns. Change happens so fast that fundamental technology and consumer shifts happen each year instead of each decade. To succeed, telecom firms need to reassess their sourcing strategies to focus on flexible, variable-cost driven supply arrangements.
GEP’s cost management expertise, extensive M&A experience and digital supply chain and procurement tools enable telecoms to reduce spend and improve supply chain performance.
Our Solutions
GEP’s comprehensive range of solutions helps telecom companies reduce supply chain risk, optimize margins, navigate M&A and divestitures and improve supply chain processes and technology. The services GEP offers include:
Procurement
- Managed services for optimizing legacy spend
- Strategic cost management services
- M&A and/or divestiture services
- Third-party tower contract administration and management
Supply Chain: Outside Plant Operations
- Equipment reliability strategies and tailored maintenance programs by asset class
- Analytics for increasing equipment reliability, including predictive maintenance
- Optimization of sparing levels
- Fleet vehicle planning and optimization
- End-to-end demand and supply planning
- Customer warranty administration
Asset Supply Chain Management
- Mobile device supply chain optimization
- Integrated supplier management
- Advanced forecasting
- Material replenishment program
- Schedule and dispatch optimization
Our Track Record
With more than 500 dedicated personnel, we are the only provider offering services and technology at scale to the telecommunications industry. We work with the largest operators in North America and Europe and have a holistic understanding of the unique telecom purchasing and supply chain domains – from OSP, core networks, field services and engineering to handsets and retail.
We have:
- Enhanced spend visibility for a major U.S. telecom company, analyzing $120+ billion in spend annually, delivering $270+ million in savings over 3 years, managing 8,000 contracts, and serving as a central repository for more than 10,000 suppliers
- Partnered with a European telecom giant to replace legacy systems and transform strategic sourcing through the implementation of a unified, end-to-end procurement software platform
Industry Insights
2024 GEP Procurement & Supply Chain Tech Trends Report
Leading Telecom Company Saves $25 Million Through eAuctions by Partnering With GEP
How Procurement Can Help Overcome Key Challenges in IT and Telecom in 2025
GEP Spend Category Outlook Report 2025
How Telecommunications Procurement Transformation Can Drive Innovation in a Dynamic Industry
