GEP Category Outlook 2021

Your Guide for Smarter Sourcing and Spend Management

For business spend management and supply chain professionals, 2021 will be unique in many ways.

While the impacts of last year’s disruption will continue to present several challenges, there will also be many opportunities.

What are these opportunities? And how can you make the most of them?

The GEP Spend Category Outlook 2021 report reveals global megatrends that will drive spend management and supply chain strategies this year and beyond. The report includes critical market intelligence and insights for key direct and indirect categories to help you make informed spend management and supply chain decisions.

It’s a must-read report for all sourcing and procurement professionals, category managers, and supply chain leaders. Read today to plan and prepare for success in 2021.

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Direct Spend Categories

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GEP® delivers AI-powered procurement and supply chain solutions that help global enterprises become more agile and resilient, operate more efficiently and effectively, gain competitive advantage, boost profitability and increase shareholder value.

Fresh thinking, innovative products, unrivaled domain expertise, smart, passionate people — this is how GEP SOFTWARE™, GEP STRATEGY™ and GEP MANAGED SERVICES™ together deliver procurement and supply chain solutions of unprecedented scale, power and effectiveness. Our customers are the world’s best companies, including more than 550 Fortune 500 and Global 2000 industry leaders who rely on GEP to meet ambitious strategic, financial and operational goals.

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GEP is also regularly ranked a top procurement and supply chain consulting and strategy firm, and a leading managed services provider by ALM, Everest Group, NelsonHall, IDC, ISG and HFS, among others. Headquartered in Clark, New Jersey, GEP has offices and operations centers across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. To learn more, visit www.gep.com.

GEP SMART™ is an AI-powered, cloud-native software for direct and indirect procurement that offers comprehensive source-to-pay functionality in one user-friendly platform, inclusive of spend analysis, sourcing, contract management, supplier management, procure-to-pay, savings project management and savings tracking, invoicing and other related functionalities.

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Built on a foundation of big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning, GEP NEXXE is next-generation software that helps enterprises make supply chain a competitive advantage.