How do private equity companies benefit from partnering with GEP? By achieving faster time to value and realizing long-term sustainable benefits, they reduce costs, improve operational efficiencies, and unlock greater value across their portfolios.
As a global leader in supply chain transformation, we offer a comprehensive suite of supply chain management solutions – plan, procure, make, and deliver – designed to drive procurement and supply chain excellence. We collaborate with PE firms across the entire investment lifecycle to optimize procurement and supply chain costs.
Operations and Procurement-Led Value Creation for Private Equity
GEP helps private equity firms unlock procurement-led EBITDA gains through cost takeout, digital transformation and supplier strategy. From synergy capture to GenAI-powered innovation, we deliver measurable impact across every stage of the investment cycle. We help drive immediate margin improvement through strategic sourcing, realize synergies and standardization in post-merger environments and enable scalable transformation with GenAI-native procurement platforms.
Our Approach and Solutions
GEP partners with PE firms across the entire investment lifecycle to optimize procurement and supply chain costs. The result: greater profitability and enhanced portfolio valuation. From opportunity assessments in the pre-acquisition phase to supply chain restructuring and cross-portfolio cost reduction to exit planning, GEP delivers and sustains savings.
1. Accelerated Cost Takeout
We help portfolio companies achieve 15–25% savings in core categories within months of acquisition, converting immediate cost actions into measurable EBITDA improvement.
2. Working Capital Optimization
Our teams unlock capital tied up in inventory, receivables and supplier terms, strengthening liquidity and enabling reinvestment in growth.
3. Value Creation Through Direct Materials
Unlike many peers, GEP goes beyond indirect categories. We drive structural COGS improvement in direct materials through BOM benchmarking, make-vs-buy strategy and best-cost sourcing.
4. Cross-Portfolio Synergies
We uncover and deliver synergies across categories such as travel, logistics and IT, enabling private equity sponsors to leverage scale and lift portfolio EBITDA.
5. Sustainable Procurement Discipline
We embed procurement governance, policies and tools across portfolio companies to ensure savings are sustained and value creation endures through exit.
Our Track Record
With nearly two decades of experience working with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, GEP knows how to handle challenges across a wide range of industries.
- GEP helped a pharma enterprise transform its supply chain to unlock significant capacity in owned plants. It reduced about $200M in working capital and optimized their network to achieve a 9% reduction in overall supply chain costs.
- GEP’s partnership with a CPG chemical company for operating model redesign and procurement transformation resulted in a 40+% OPEX reduction. We delivered a 10+% cost reduction on external purchases and a 15% improvement in working capital.
- GEP helped an oil and gas enterprise integrate its inventory and supplier management activities. GEP improved spend visibility, slashed inventory costs by 12% and implemented a new VMI program with key suppliers.
- GEP helped a chemicals enterprise, which was being spun off from a large conglomerate, establish itself as a standalone organization. GEP reviewed thousands of contracts for segmentation, developed TSAs, managed exit from TSAs within 12 months and provided procurement leadership and resources for day-to-day operational stability.
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