Case Study: Fortune 500 CPG Company achieves $200M in savings and 62% indirect spend under management with SMART by GEP

Fortune 500 CPG Enterprise Boosts Spend Visibility, Drives Savings With GEP SMART

A Fortune 500 consumer packaged goods company with a global customer base and manufacturing footprint faced rising commodity costs, decentralized procurement across multiple ERPs and languages, low contract compliance, and limited automation. The company’s main challenge was to identify and convert indirect-spend opportunities into hard savings while unifying procurement operations to improve efficiency and collaboration.

The company deployed SMART by GEP—a cloud-native, AI-powered source-to-pay platform—to centralize spend analysis, sourcing, contract and category management, and create center-led sourcing with global delivery teams. The solution classified $8 billion across 5 million line-items, brought ~62% of indirect spend under management, sourced 200+ categories, managed 15,000+ contracts and delivered roughly $200 million in savings over three years, increasing the savings run rate to 3.6% and achieving more than 25% P&L improvement.