Americas – Offices and Operations Centers
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Sao Paulo, Brazil
São Paulo is the base for GEP's Portuguese-speaking, Latin American consulting team, providing strategic sourcing, category management, supplier management and procurement outsourcing services to Latin American and multinational clients.
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Mexico City, Mexico
Mexico City is the base for GEP's Spanish-speaking, Latin American consulting team, providing strategic sourcing, category management, supplier management and procurement outsourcing services to Latin American and multinational clients.
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San Jose, Costa Rica
Costa Rica is the GEP Center of Expertise in Latin America. Costa Rica leads Latin America in the quality of its education system, literacy rate and source of multilingual capabilities. With a rich talent pool and strategic location, Costa Rica supports GEP’s Global Regional Integrated Delivery (
Procurement Consulting
Our Latin American teams bring deep, region-specific procurement experience to deliver a compelling return on investment from your procurement programs:
- Latin American Category Expertise: Indirect and direct Latin American category expertise and a focus on reducing the total cost of ownership of the goods and services you source
- Ensuring Savings Hit Your Bottom Line: Compliance-checking tools and procedures to ensure identified savings are ultimately realised
- Effective Change Management: Local consulting teams with a strong focus on change management to ensure savings are implemented
- The Right Tools: GEP’s own Gartner-rated, cloud-based sourcing and procurement platform, GEP SMART, boosts the effectiveness of our strategic sourcing engagements
- Global/Regional Integrated Delivery (GRID™ ) Model: We can tap global office and operation centers to support your programmes
Find out more about Procurement Consulting at GEP.
Procurement Outsourcing
The case for procurement outsourcing is clear — improve and standardize business processes, free up buyers' time to focus on category strategy, gain access to cheaper goods and services, reduce the cost of transaction processing and mitigate supplier and contractual risk.
GEP’s global footprint, deep functional expertise in procurement and outsourcing experience make it the right partner for procurement outsourcing. Our end-to-end, source-to-pay procurement solutions are configurable to your organization’s specific requirements, providing transformational efficiencies and savings that move the needle.
Find out more about Procurement Outsourcing at GEP.
Procurement Software
GEP is a true innovator in the development and application of procurement technologies to support company savings programs and supplier management initiatives.
GEP SMART, our cloud-based, end-to-end procurement suite has been built to support all key stages of the procurement process: from demand management and planning through contract implementation and onto supplier management and performance tracking. Our American customer base uses our solutions to enable collaboration across countries and business units and drive standardization of business processes, where appropriate.
The GEP Americas team is also a major user of our procurement suite. Our consultants use GEP SMART's spend analysis and RFx/auction tools to support our strategic sourcing engagements, and our delivery teams use GEP SMART’s contract management functionality and other capabilities to support operational activities.
Find out more about Procurement Software at GEP.
Spotlight
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Roberto Perez
Vice President, Procurement Operations
Roberto has over 20 years of experience in sourcing, procurement, and supply chain operations. At GEP, he focuses on building and growing the Managed Services practice.
Prior to joining GEP, Roberto served as a director at P&G, where he transformed the procurement function leading the creation of procurement capabilities in Costa Rica. He also led supply chain operations for LATAM External Manufacturing.
With expertise in supply chain and procurement transformation, Roberto has helped several Fortune 500 companies in their journey to be best in class, including…
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Luis Carlos Rodriguez
Vice President, Consulting
Luis is a regional leader for GEP's Latin American operations, based in the company's Mexico City office. He is responsible for delivering management consulting and managed services engagements and leading regional business development efforts to strengthen GEP’s growth throughout the region.
With more than 22 years of experience, Luis has worked for global consulting firms, including McKinsey & Co. and Accenture Strategy. He has also been an entrepreneur, creating his own procurement consulting practice. Throughout his career, Luis has been instrumental in creating and…