You have a strong team, good control over spend and solid relationships with stakeholders and suppliers. But how can you boost year-on-year savings and improve ROI amid rising operating costs? Your team has deep expertise in managing categories and strong ties with business stakeholders. Imagine if they could focus more on strategizing, developing suppliers and negotiating deals.
GEP's source-to-contract services drive significant year-on-year savings, empower your team to maximize their time and enhance returns on operating costs.
GEP has developed a unique position for itself... for both direct and indirect spend, as well as deep domain, industry and technology expertise.
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Best-in-Class Services
Our source-to-contract services leverage advanced analytics, real-time market intelligence, category expertise and state-of-the-art procurement software. We offer end-to-end services throughout the sourcing cycle — from spend analysis and opportunity identification to contract implementation. Our flexible engagement models allow us to support category managers through sourcing or take full ownership of outsourced categories. Contact us to discover more about procurement outsourcing.
Why Choose GEP's Sourcing Services
GEP's seasoned experts deliver tailored solutions, combining local and global expertise from Europe, Asia and the Americas. With the industry’s broadest range of offerings — strategy, software and managed services — we provide unmatched value.
Gaining accurate visibility into your spend across categories and business lines is essential for refining your sourcing strategies. GEP's spend analysis service, powered by the AI-driven analytics of GEP SMART™—our cloud-based procurement platform—offers item-level insights. This enables you to view your spend data from multiple dimensions and easily identify sourcing opportunities.
Our category experts enhance the output from the spend analysis tool with by providing actionable insights on savings, benchmarking key category metrics, and assessing your supplier base. Additionally, our analysts assist with complex analytical needs such as TCO modeling, value engineering, clean-sheet costing, SKU rationalization and master data management.
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Our sourcing support service significantly reduces cycle times in the strategic sourcing process while enhancing results. Global teams bring specialized skills for each step, enabling parallel execution and supporting category managers so they can focus on strategic activities, manage more spend and strengthen stakeholder relationships.
With actionable market intelligence, advanced analytics, and rapid execution, we enhance decision-making for category leaders. Our services include analyzing large spend data sets, identifying savings opportunities, managing suppliers, running RFx and auction events, providing negotiation scripts, conducting bid optimization analysis and redlining contract templates.
Designed to empower procurement managers, our flexible and collaborative engagement model adapts to client needs. We offer on-demand support, fill strategic gaps or manage entire categories.
Discover how leading companies have transformed their procurement capabilities and reduced costs with our sourcing support services. Contact us today to learn more.
GEP brings years of experience managing eSourcing across hundreds of categories. With our intuitive eRFx and eAuction tools, designed by procurement professionals, and our category-specific expertise, we consistently deliver value through incremental savings, more time for strategic initiatives and improved efficiency.
We view eSourcing and eAuctions as essential tools for a transparent and efficient sourcing process. Our eSourcing specialists manage thousands of events annually, from simple to complex, across various categories, providing actionable insights and negotiation strategies.
Our teams support clients through every step of an RFx and auction event, including:
- Designing RFx using our extensive library of RFP templates
- Assessing category suitability for auctions
- Developing category-specific auction strategies
- Setting up auctions, training suppliers, and communication
- Supporting suppliers during events
- Conducting post-auction bid analysis
GEP also offers its own versatile, cloud-native eSourcing platform, GEP SMART, which incorporates best-in-class functionalities from thousands of sourcing events.
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Transitioning from an agreement with a supplier to a signed contract requires specialized skills. If not managed well, this process can take months, delaying your company’s ability to realize the contract's value and benefits.
GEP's contracting support teams expedite the journey from agreement to signed contract, minimizing risk and ensuring optimal terms. Our specialists work directly with your procurement and legal teams to facilitate the execution of supply agreements, master agreements, statements of work and NDAs, allowing your category managers to focus on more spend and drive greater savings.
We also maintain your contract repository, manage renewals and rebates and ensure compliance and reporting.
GEP SMART simplifies and automates the entire contracting process. Designed for procurement professionals, it features collaborative authoring, template libraries, alerts, intelligence repositories and advanced reporting.
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Many clients leverage GEP's category management services for non-core spend, allowing them to concentrate on more strategic categories. In these engagements, GEP takes full ownership of the category management cycle, handling sourcing, spend analysis, contract management, supplier performance management and savings and compliance tracking.
With over 300 category experts and a robust infrastructure, we deliver substantial, sustainable savings year after year while enhancing supplier performance and reducing risk.
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