Vendor Analysis
published on Jul 26, 2023
Report Overview:
This vendor assessment analyzes GEP's offerings and capabilities in procurement transformation services.
Who is this Report for:
NelsonHall’s procurement transformation profile on GEP is a comprehensive assessment of GEP’s offerings and capabilities, designed for:
- Sourcing managers monitoring the capabilities of existing suppliers of procurement transformation services and identifying vendor suitability for procurement services RFPs
- Vendor marketing, sales, and business managers looking to benchmark themselves against their peers
- Financial analysts and investors specializing in the F&A and Supply Chain services sector.
Scope of this Report:
The report provides a comprehensive and objective analysis of GEP’s procurement offerings and capabilities, and market and financial strengths, including:
- Identification of the company’s strategy, emphasis, and new developments
- Analysis of the company’s strengths, weaknesses, and outlook
- Revenue estimates
- Analysis of the profile of the company’s customer base including the company’s targeting strategy and examples of current contracts
- Analysis of the company’s offerings and key service components
- Analysis of the company’s delivery organization including the location of delivery locations.
Key Findings & Highlights:
GEP focuses on an integrated solution integrating consulting, software, and managed services to help clients manage their procurement and supply chain, mitigate risks, deliver savings, and reduce operational costs.
The company has been leveraging its consulting resources and operations (managed services) client and industry expertise to drive an integrated delivery model, leveraging the SMEs from consulting, managed services, technology, and software platforms.
GEP's procurement offerings include:
- Consulting services: procurement strategy and supply chain strategy
- Software: end-to-end procurement and supply chain platforms
- Managed services: Source to contract, procure to pay, category management, supply market intelligence, and supply chain outsourcing.
GEP has ~6,000 FTEs, with 26 offices serving ~550 clients across 120 countries. Around 60% of the company's delivery personnel are based offshore in India, 30% are based onshore in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, and 10% are nearshore in Latin America.
The U.S. represents around 50% of the company's revenue. GEP is also growing its presence in some large countries in Europe, notably the U.K., Germany, and the Netherlands. There is an increasing focus on mid-market enterprises (i.e, companies with revenues below $1bn): this segment currently accounts for around 10% of overall revenue. There is a clear emphasis on supporting clients in the digital transformation of their procurement function, including delivering significant improvements in process automation.