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Spend Analysis Software

Comprehensive spend analysis is the stepping stone to a successful strategic sourcing program, because only real-time and detailed visibility into enterprise purchase data can provide the necessary insight. Without it, you might as well try to conduct sourcing with one hand tied behind your back.

Look no further than GEP SMARTTM — powerful, expertly engineered procurement software. As a full spend analysis platform, GEP SMART cleanses, validates, classifies and reports spend data from all your source systems to provide accurate, actionable information, with granular, item-level visibility across the enterprise.

Spend analysis technology in GEP SMART will help you understand what you really spend on, who’s doing the spending and where, and most importantly, if you’re getting your money’s worth. The benefits effectively pay for themselves: reduced maverick buying, lower procurement costs, improved efficiency, better compliance and higher realized savings.

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We work with a number of suppliers with payment terms that vary with company and business unit. GEP SMART’s spend analysis tool has helped us normalize our payment terms across the supply base, and drive a lot of value and savings.

— Ron Dreher, Manager, eSourcing, Masco Corporation

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SPEND ANALYSIS SOFTWARE

GEP SMART is a huge advance from the basic, single-module spend analysis platforms that don’t do much more than provide reports from ERP or AP systems. It’s a complete cloud-native, unified source-to-pay suite that provides comprehensive spend visibility, in-depth analytical reporting, far-reaching business intelligence and opportunity identification.

GEP SMART lives up to its name with automated spend analysis functionality that accomplishes the critical things that make procurement teams successful:

  • Set spend thresholds and receive real-time spend alerts
  • Move from line item to enterprise view with a single click
  • Access in-depth analytical reporting and business intelligence capabilities
  • Integrate and transform source spend data from all key systems into a single data set
  • Classify and interrogate spend data to support source-to-pay cycle activities like spend management, supplier management and savings project management
  • Maximize savings opportunities based on your sourcing strategy
  • Leverage an array of savings tracking and savings opportunity identification tools
  • Log on anytime, anywhere, and from any device

What do the numbers really say?

Get detailed insight into your spend data and make informed strategic decisions using advanced spend analytics tools.

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Source Agnostic

Automatic mapping of data headers from multiple formats of input files from any ERP, F&A or procurement system to speed up data cleansing and data classification

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Auto Data Cleansing and Validation

GEP SMART automatically aggregates, cleanses and normalizes spend data from different sources for highly accurate and insightful spend analytics

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Artificial Intelligence

Powerful, proprietary algorithms drive a learning system that self-corrects, delivering incredible accuracy and nuanced insights into your spend data, every time

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Taxonomy Agnostic

Use one preferred or multiple taxonomy standards, including industry-specific UNSPSC, SIC codes, and enterprise-specific taxonomies as you require

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Quick-Reference Dashboards

Highly customizable graphical and tabular spend dashboards accelerate uptake, with detailed drill-downs for supplier analysis, categories, regions, and spend volume

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Savings Opportunity Finder

GEP SMART's built-in artificial intelligence scans through your spend data to identify potential savings opportunities based on your sourcing strategy

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See What You Can Do

Customize rich, multi-dimensional reports by supplier, business unit, price variance and more

Get detailed information on suppliers with optional enrichment from third-party sources for easy vendor classification

Analyze spend across global locations with built-in language and currency support

Create, export and mail reports, charts, graphs and data extracts in any format

Get up-to-the-minute market intelligence and real-world inputs from GEP's strategic sourcing and category experts

Automatic correction of supplier information with parent/child linkages for supplier normalization

1000

New Contracts Per Month

$50

Billion In Spend 140 Countries

10,000+

Vendors Across Multiple Countries

Why GEP SMART

Spend Analysis

The spend analysis function is designed as an integral part of the larger, unified GEP SMART e-procurement software system with the capability to transform the strategic sourcing and category management process. GEP SMART helps enterprises identify new savings opportunities, curb maverick buying and cut costs substantially — while incorporating real-time market intelligence and insights from GEP's industry-leading strategic sourcing and consulting services. You won’t derive this type of tangible value from any other software tool on the market today.

GEP SMART is a dynamic spend analytics system that’s constantly learning and improving. Using artificial intelligence and proprietary algorithms, it draws on the insight gathered from a multitude of complex engagements to continually sharpen its output against even the most distinct and atypical taxonomies.

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Frequently Asked Questions

While most spend analysis tools can only utilize data from one ERP or AP system, GEP SMART is capable of gathering spend data from multiple source systems and presenting it as a single data set. The data is enriched using thorough cleansing, classification and validation processes, thereby improving its accuracy and enterprise-level spend visibility. Not only does this make it easy for enterprises to find key suppliers, evaluate pricing trends, and identify savings opportunities, it helps identify non-contractual spend and reduce maverick or off-contract purchasing.

GEP SMART’s spend analysis capabilities are not exclusive to any one specific taxonomy; customers can select one favored or multiple taxonomy standards, including industry-specific UNSPSC, SIC codes, or any enterprise-specific taxonomy.

Yes — GEP SMART has multilingual capabilities encompassing every major European and Asian language. This means that data from all sources — in any language or currency — can be included to generate complete global spend visibility.

Yes. GEP SMART enables 360-degree, enterprise-wide spend visibility for stakeholders across every business unit or location. This boosts transparency and promotes cross-functional collaboration.

The implementation time for the spend analysis function varies based on the volume and complexity of the raw data as well as the number of source systems.

Yes — you don’t have to subscribe to the entire platform. But you also don’t have to limit yourself to single-function, “best of breed” applications such as those found in on-premises software. As your business grows, you can grow your GEP SMART capabilities and incorporate additional functions of this unified, source-to-pay procurement platform.

The spend analysis tool provides 360-degree visibility into enterprise-wide spend. There are three reporting options: 1) intuitive customer-specified dashboards that give immediate insight into spend patterns; 2) detailed, pre-defined reports that can be produced according to a schedule or on demand; and 3) an in-depth spend reporting tool that provides for ad-hoc, deep-dive reporting across all aspects of organizational spend.

As frequently as you see fit. You can choose to automate spend data management, and pull up ad-hoc reports and analyze the data as often as you wish. Analysis is largely dependent on the frequency of your refresh cycles. To learn more about the optimal spend data refresh cycles for your enterprise, please contact us.

Yes. You can provide your data to us “as-is”. GEP SMART  spend analysis software has built-in capabilities for cleansing, consolidation and validation of the raw data. With each data refresh, the cleansing, classification and validation process happens faster as our AI-based system “learns” your data.

No. Users are designated as either “Power” or “Business” users. Power users can create and publish ad-hoc reports, and business users have viewing rights for reports and dashboards. Your subscription includes a defined number of power users and unlimited business users.

The spend cube presents reviewed spend data as a multidimensional cube. Normally, the reviewed dimensions comprise: sub-categories or variants purchased across the enterprise; stakeholders or departments buying the category; and comparative spend for different suppliers.

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