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The time is now
New targets, new opportunities and higher expectations.
Procurement is on the rise.

Today's enterprises need to be more productive, more in

control, and with greater visibility than ever before.
The best software can help.

SMART by GEP is unique. The only completely unified

source-to-pay platform, that's native to cloud, mobile and
touch technologies, that drives success through amazing
user experience and that's open by design for integration
into your business.

Of course, you should expect procurement software to be

smart. But this is different, this is SMART by GEP.

“The product name, SMART by GEP sums up its approach: using software to help customers' employees make
better, faster buying decisions. GEP is a good option for large multinationals that want intelligent procurement
software for both upstream and downstream, in a single, cost-effective solution.” – Forrester Research

What is SMART by GEP?

Source to Pay: A complete system for spend Easy Integration: Designed to connect to your
management across the enterprise — from ERP and AP system to create a powerful
strategic planning to invoice payment new solution

Unified: One seamless process from plan Cloud-Native: Built directly in the cloud to
to source to contract to catalog to order deliver unparalleled performance, security,
to invoice resilience, and future-proofing

Amazing User Experience: Consumer-like Intelligent: With a foundation of artificial

user experience drives adoption and intelligence and advanced process automation,
usage; usage drives results SMART by GEP is the platform for the future

By GEP: Precision-engineered by Drives Transformation: Encompassing the

industry's leading procurement experts entire source-to-pay value chain, SMART by
for procurement professionals and GEP is a digital fast track to procurement
company buyers transformation
 – The Platform for Digital Procurement Transformation

SMART by GEP is the industry's leading cloud-native, unified source-to-pay platform with comprehensive spend,
sourcing and procurement functionality.
SMART by GEP leverages the power and scalability of the cloud to offer a single, digital workspace for all
stakeholders that enables and accelerates digital procurement transformation. Dozens of leading global
enterprises are powering aggressive procurement transformations on SMART by GEP right now.
Designed as an open platform, SMART by GEP allows enterprise procurement teams to harness the potential of
new and emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, big data, blockchain, and IoT, to achieve truly
transformative business outcomes.

“GEP's transformational capabilities and expertise make it a collaborative partner to

guide clients in the digital procurement transformation journey, with cloud-based
digital procurement platform SMART by GEP and emerging technologies, such as
robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, and blockchain.” – HfS Research
 Global leader in
procurement software
Used in
$1000 billion+
spend processed per year
more than

120
A new
transaction
every 2 seconds
countries

Over

150,000
sourcing events per year
50,000
active savings projects
500,000+
people use SMART by GEP
at any time every week

“Consider GEP when you are a large global organization with

complex procurement processes, requiring a simple and flexible
toolset simplifying the business process." – IDC
 THE BLUEPRINT FOR PROCUREMENT EXCELLENCE
Unified source to pay. What that means is everything you do — identifying opportunities, planning
savings, running RFPs and auctions, negotiating contracts, managing whole categories, raising
purchase orders, paying invoices and managing supplier relationships — is all accessible and all
visible in one single system. Always on, always available and on any device.

ONE VIEW OF THE TRUTH

SPEND ANALYSIS

REPORTING CATEGORY MANAGEMENT

INVOICING & PAYABLES SAVINGS PROJECT MANAGEMENT

PROCURE TO PAY SOURCING & AUCTIONS

GUIDED BUYING AUTOMATION

ERP INTEGRATION CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT

Superb Support and Service Throughout

GEP has garnered wide recognition as the most customer-centric procurement services and software
firm in the industry, focused exclusively on serving sourcing, procurement and purchasing professionals.
From the get-go our experts will guide you through how SMART by GEP can deliver maximum value to
your business and our expertise and support doesn’t end there. As a SMART by GEP customer we know
your success will come from using the software, day in, day out and unlike some software companies
that vanish once the implementation is complete, we will be with you all the way.
SMART by GEP IS BEAUTIFUL
AND PEOPLE LOVE IT
SMART by GEP is a thoughtfully conceived,
beautifully designed digital work environment, THE BRIGHTEST AND BEST COMPANIES
precision-engineered for sourcing and procurement
professionals, bringing consumer-grade usability and
CHOOSE SMART by GEP
experience to the business-to-business workspace. At GEP, we've never been comfortable with
With intuitive design, stunning visual appeal, conventional wisdom, conventional solutions or
intelligent interfaces, and ability to move the user conventional outcomes. We believe that what
fluidly and naturally from task to task, on any makes most sense for our customers makes most
platform and any device, SMART by GEP drives sense for us.
adoption rates that are among the highest That approach has made GEP a market leader in
in the industry. cloud-native, source-to-pay procurement software,
SMART by GEP eliminates routine and redundant with an extensive, rapidly expanding roster of
processes, accelerates or shortens complex tasks, Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers,
intelligently provides tools and resources to people themselves market leaders in virtually every
to achieve more, get better results and succeed in industry, sector and region.
their work. More and more companies are making the switch
Designed and engineered by sourcing and to SMART by GEP as part of a drive for new
procurement experts, SMART by GEP is the product sources of savings and value through digital
of two decades of hands-on experience across procurement transformation.
hundreds of complex engagements with the world's SMART by GEP exceeds the performance
most demanding global enterprises. expectations of the most demanding clients on
the planet, delivering outsized improvements in
business agility, productivity and cost savings.

GEP helps global enterprises operate more efficiently and effectively, gain competitive advantage, boost profitability, and maximize business and shareholder value.

Fresh thinking, innovative products, unrivaled domain and subject expertise, and smart, passionate people – this is how GEP creates and delivers unified business
transformation solutions of unprecedented scale, power and effectiveness.

Named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant and Best Provider at the World Procurement Awards and EPIC Procurement Excellence Awards, GEP is frequently
honored as an innovator and leader in source-to-pay procurement software by Gartner, Forrester, IDC, Procurement Leaders, Spend Matters, PayStream and Ardent
Partners.

GEP is also ranked leader in managed procurement services (procurement outsourcing) by Everest Group, NelsonHall, IDC, ISG, HfS and IAOP. In addition, the
primary research firm in the management consulting sector, ALM Intelligence, ranks GEP leader in procurement strategy and supply chain consulting.

With 14 offices and operations centers in Europe, Asia and the Americas, Clark, New Jersey-based GEP helps enterprises worldwide realize their strategic,
operational and financial objectives. To learn more about our comprehensive range of strategic and managed services, please visit www.gep.com. For more about
SMART by GEP, our cloud-native, unified source-to-pay platform, please visit www.smartbygep.com.

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