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GEP Worldwide

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Area served
  
Worldwide

CEO
  
Subhash Makhija (1999–)

Type of business
  
Private limited company

Key people
  
Subhash Makhija (CEO)

Founded
  
1999

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Industry
  
Consulting, business services, software

Founder
  
Subhash Makhija, Roopa Gandhi, Jagadish Turimella, Neha Shah

Products
  
SMART by GEP Source-to-Pay Procurement Software www.smartbygep.com

Services
  
Procurement consulting, supply chain consulting, procurement outsourcing, supply chain outsourcing

Headquarters
  
Clark, New Jersey, United States

GEP is a privately held multinational company that provides consulting, outsourcing and software to enterprise procurement and supply chain management teams at Global 2000 and Fortune 500 companies worldwide. The company is headquartered in Clark, New Jersey, USA. GEP has more than 2,000 consulting, outsourcing and technology professionals worldwide.

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History

GEP was established in 1999 by Subhash Makhija, Neha Shah, Roopa Gandhi and Jagadish (“JT”) Turimella to provide sourcing and procurement consulting services to enterprises in North America and Europe. The company initially focused on providing procurement consulting services and also developed a number of procurement tools for eRFX, auction management and supplier management to support its clients, offered through the Software as a Service (SaaS) model.

Since then, GEP has added procurement outsourcing, supply chain consulting and outsourcing to its solutions portfolio.

Locations

GEP has 12 offices and operations centers in major regional market centers across the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

Consulting services

GEP’s procurement consulting services include tendering and benchmarking. The company’s supply chain consulting services include supply chain strategy, supply chain diagnostics and design, capacity planning, risk management, network optimization and inventory optimization.

Outsourcing services

GEP’s procurement outsourcing services comprise spend analysis, category management, supply market intelligence, transactions management, tail-spend management, procurement support services and end-to-end procurement outsourcing. Supply chain outsourcing services include inventory management, logistics management, planning & forecasting and supply chain data management.

Procurement Software

SMART by GEP is a sourcing and procurement platform developed by GEP on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, delivered through the “Platform as a Service” (PaaS) model. The product is designed for touch and mobile technologies. SMART by GEP’s core functionality includes spend analysis, sourcing, contract management, supplier management and procure-to-pay.

Customers

GEP serves Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises across a wide range of industries, besides large government agencies and nonprofit organizations.

Acquisition

In 2012, GEP acquired Enporion, a supply chain management company based in Tampa, Florida. Enporion provided strategic sourcing and e-procurement applications, and served customers in the electric and gas utilities, manufacturing and distribution industries.

Partnerships

In 2014, GEP announced a partnership agreement with Hubwoo, integrating The Business Network by Hubwoo — a B2B supplier network — into SMART by GEP.

Awards and recognition

2015

GEP named Top Supplier at the EPIC Procurement Excellence Awards 2015

2014

SMART by GEP ranked among the top 10 spend management software by Business-Software.com

GEP featured as a “Top 50 Company to Know” in the Spend Matters Almanac. The Spend Matters 50 to Know list features top software firms, outsourcers, data providers, research firms, consultants, and similar organizations.

Ranked among the top four procurement outsourcing providers in Latin America by Everest Group

“Most Admired Vendor for BPO Sector” at the BPO Excellence Awards

2013

GEP ranked as a Leader in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites.

Placed in the Winner’s Circle in the HfS Procurement Outsourcing Services Blueprint Report

Named a Star Performer and Procurement Outsourcing Leader in Everest Group’s PEAK (Performance, Experience, Ability, Knowledge) Matrix report

2012

“BPO Organisation of the Year” at BPO Excellence Awards, 2012

References

GEP Worldwide Wikipedia