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Supply Market Intelligence

As sourcing experts, GEP knows the importance of actionable supply market intelligence (SMI) to help enterprises manage risks, find cost-savings and gain a competitive advantage. But getting that data is a challenge, and not having it exposes firms to considerable sourcing-related risk.

GEP’s global market intelligence team is comprised of over 160 researchers that support procurement professionals with category as well as macroeconomic insights.

Our category-aligned team of researchers, supported by econometricians and data scientists, have expertise on a broad set of direct and indirect categories. Their wide-ranging insights ensure firms can make confident supply decisions in their category while also being nimble enough to respond to events like cost inflation and supply chain disruptions.

Procurement-Focused Market Intelligence Deliverables

GEP provides in-depth insights that are tailored to your specific needs, but we also know there are times when you also need a quick overview of a spend category, along with a snapshot of the supply market analysis. We’re ready to fulfill these requests with off-the-shelf procurement reports (category dossiers) on numerous categories and commodities.

Off-the-Shelf Category Reports

GEP’s market intelligence team offers category intelligence on several hand-picked topics that represent critical concerns for clients across the spectrum. Our off-the-shelf library of over 250 procurement research reports is spread across key categories such as marketing, MRO and logistics, professional services, IT, metals, chemicals, agriculture and more. These reports serve as best-in-class sourcing guides for category managers. In addition, our clients are routinely updated with timely advisories highlighting the supply chain impact of external events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war and the Suez Canal crisis.

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Custom Advisory

Our custom supply chain research is tailored to client-specific needs, and research output is based on factors such as client industry, scale of operations and region in scope. Research requirements incorporate each individual client’s current positioning and sourcing plan. GEP works with client stakeholders to deliver razor-sharp analysis that is highly contextualized.

Unique Research Levers

GEP’s market researchers have access to GEP sourcing consultants that procure a growing number of products and services on behalf of our clients. Unlike other market research firms, we have access to 3,000+ sourcing analysts with rich sourcing experience across multiple spend pools.

GEP has 450+ tenured category SMEs, each with 25+ years of experience. Input from these experts adds further richness to our analysis. GEP also maintains relationships with multiple external expert networks for support on niche topics.

With GEP SMART™ and GEP NEXXE™ (our unified source-to-pay procurement software platform) and COSTDRIVERS® (our global supply markets forecasting, pricing trends and cost-modeling platform), GEP market intelligence can be consumed through multiple delivery options that best fit your needs.

GEP leverages its global footprint by delivering market intelligence services out of regional offices — such as India, the United States, China, Malaysia, Costa Rica, Brazil and the Czech Republic — providing nonlocalized MI as well as support in 15+ languages.