Case Study: Global Fast-Food Company achieves €14M in raw material savings and stronger supply chain resilience with GEP

How a Global Fast-Food Chain Saved €14M in Raw Materials and Improved Supply Chain Resilience With GEP

A global Fortune 500 quick-service restaurant with thousands of European outlets faced major challenges securing fresh produce: weather-driven supply disruption and seasonality, steep increases in raw-material, energy and labor costs, long lead times that hurt freshness, and the need to ensure food safety and supplier resilience. These pressures threatened supply assurance and drove volatile category spend across 16 existing suppliers.

GEP redesigned the fresh-produce procurement network—diversifying and rebalancing supplier mix, establishing dual and alternative supply lines (including year‑round hydroponic sources), implementing shared risk-management protocols, and strengthening supplier relationships against sustainability, quality and innovation criteria. The intervention minimized transport time, improved contingency readiness and identified €14 million in annual savings while delivering a more resilient, flexible supply chain for the client’s European operations.