GEP Wins Dual Top Honors at Prestigious Institute for Supply Management 2025 Trailblazer Awards

• Best ‘Procurement Transformation’ for E&I Cooperative Services, the only member-owned, nonprofit sourcing cooperative focused on education
• Best ‘Supply Chain Consulting’ for Smurfit Westrock, a global leader in sustainable packaging
• One of the few firms globally recognized for excellence in both strategy and software

Clark, N.J., June 3, 2025 – GEP, a global leader in procurement and supply chain consulting, services, and software for Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises, has won two 2025 ISM Supply Chain Trailblazer Awards from the Institute for Supply Management — one for Procurement Transformation and one for Supply Chain Consulting Excellence.

GEP is among a rare group of firms recognized for outstanding performance across both consulting and technology — a testament to its distinctive ability to deliver end-to-end procurement value through its integrated strategy, software, and services.

The Transformation Award honors GEP’s work with E&I Cooperative Services, the only member-owned, nonprofit sourcing cooperative dedicated exclusively to education. Serving more than 6,000 educational institutions nationwide, E&I is deeply committed to delivering maximum value to its members. GEP partnered with E&I to help redesign its sourcing framework, allowing the cooperative to reduce sourcing timelines from a year to under five months and double its year-over-year procurement output while maintaining strict public procurement standards and delivering strong outcomes for member institutions through smarter, faster procurement execution.

The Consulting Excellence Award celebrates GEP’s strategic partnership with Smurfit Westrock, a global leader in sustainable packaging. GEP led a sweeping procurement transformation, improving spend visibility across more than a dozen ERP systems, implementing robust indirect category strategies, deploying industry-leading guided buying and spend analysis technology, and exceeding the savings target.

“Very few organizations — if any — are recognized as world-class in both consulting and software. That’s why we’re so proud to help our clients achieve their vision with our strategic consulting and next-generation software,” said Subhash Makhija, CEO and co-founder of GEP.

About GEP SOFTWARE™

GEP SOFTWARE provides AI-powered digital procurement and supply chain platforms that help global enterprises become more agile, resilient, competitive and profitable. With beautifully rendered interfaces and flexible workflows, GEP provides users fresh, intuitive digital workspaces that yield extraordinary levels of user adoption and meaningful gains in team and personal productivity. GEP products leverage machine learning and cognitive computing, advanced data and semantic technologies, IoT, mobile, and cloud technologies, and are designed to incorporate continuous innovations in technology. GEP’s software integrates quickly and easily with third-party and legacy systems, including SAP, Oracle, and other major ERP and F&A software. And with superb support and service, GEP is an industry leader in customer satisfaction and loyalty. GEP’s cloud-native software and digital business platforms consistently win awards and recognition from industry analysts, research firms and media outlets, including Forrester, IDC, Procurement Leaders and Spend Matters. GEP SOFTWARE is part of Clark, NJ-based GEP — the world’s leading provider of AI-powered procurement and supply chain software, strategy and managed services. To learn more, visit www.gepsoftware.com.

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