Case Study: Fortune 500 Chemicals Company achieves 10% administrative cost savings post-merger with GEP

How GEP Helped a Fortune 500 Chemicals Firm Save 10% on Admin Costs Post Merger

A U.S.-based Fortune 500 chemicals company faced high administrative costs and inconsistent safety and service standards after a merger left the combined business with divergent facilities management approaches—one side using a single IFM vendor, the other operating multiple suppliers—which created site-level resistance, risk concerns and inefficiencies.

GEP surveyed seven major sites, aligned facilities managers, drafted a standardized statement of work and ran RFPs and improvement proposals to vet providers and safety practices. The program consolidated vendors across a $25M annual spend (two new providers and three renewed incumbents), launched an integrated FM program and pilots at three sites, and delivered 9.6% savings in year one with productivity gain targets of 2% for years 2–4 and 1% in year 5.