Being the sourcing specialist, GEP understands the importance of having the right market intelligence — at the right time — for sourcing-related decision-making. Access to timely, accurate and actionable supply chain intelligence is a huge strategic advantage. Not having it exposes firms to sizeable sourcing-related risk.
GEP’s category-based supply market intelligence (SMI) team comprises 150-plus experts. It supports CPOs and procurement professionals from market-leading enterprises worldwide, and GEP’s own procurement consultants, through custom-configured procurement research deliverables and engagement models.
Procurement-Focused Market Intelligence Offerings
Procurement professionals can make confident, informed decisions when insights are tailored to their industry/geography/scale. Our procurement market intelligence reports give you real-time insights, and your team gets a decisive competitive edge when confronting big questions and problems, such as:
- Supplier Intelligence: Am I working with the right suppliers? What levers can I use to negotiate a better deal with my incumbent suppliers?
- Pricing Intelligence: Am I paying the optimal price?
- Sourcing Intelligence: Do best-in-class companies adopt a different engagement model?
- Procurement Intelligence: What benchmarks can I include as part of the contractual terms?
- Competitive Market Intelligence: How are my peers sourcing? What are they doing differently?
We also know there are times when you need a quick overview of a spend category, along with a quick snapshot of the supply market analysis. GEP’s SMI team is ready to fulfill these requests with off-the-shelf procurement reports (category dossiers) on numerous mainstream categories.