Direct material procurement spends are "high stakes" as they critically affect supply chains, customer sales, and ultimately, the top and bottom lines. And in globalized supply chains, managing direct spend more effectively is a strategic priority.
As a global leader in procurement and supply chain solutions, GEP helps Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises across more than 30 industries create more value from their direct materials spend. GEP manages more than $350 billion of procurement spend for market-leading enterprises across the world, including Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
GEP SMART: Source-to-Pay Software for Direct Materials
GEP SMART is a cloud-native, unified source-to-pay platform for direct materials with comprehensive sourcing, procurement and spend management functionality. GEP SMART helps you take new products to the market faster by seamlessly connecting all your design-to-deliver processes on a single, unified platform that boosts efficiency and results.

GEP has developed a unique position for itself .. for both direct and indirect spend, as well as deep domain, industry, and technology expertise.
Everest Group
Direct Materials Procurement Expertise and Solutions
Our Expertise
GEP has a deep understanding of sourcing and procurement across a wide range of direct material categories, including chemicals, metals, plastics, food ingredients, coal, energy, textiles, electronics, sub-components and finished goods. We have hundreds of in-house direct materials category experts across all major industries and supply markets. With benchmarks, best practices, contract templates, negotiation levers and local and global market intelligence, we help large global enterprises optimize their direct materials spend.
Our Solutions
GEP provides the most comprehensive range of strategic and managed services for direct materials sourcing and procurement in the industry, along with its own cloud-native, unified source-to-pay platform — GEP SMART.
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Why Choose GEP
- More than 200 category experts and sourcing consultants
- Dedicated market intelligence and analytics teams
- Unified source-to-pay procurement platform
- State-of-the-art analytical reporting and tools
- Extensive database of over 35 million global suppliers
- Best practices, processes, and templates repository
- Local teams in markets across Europe, Asia and the Americas
