Case Study: Yorkshire Building Society achieves tech-driven procurement and supply chain transformation with GEP

How GEP helped YBS streamline procurement and supply chain to triple its savings volumes

Yorkshire Building Society (YBS) engaged GEP to deliver an end-to-end source-to-pay (S2P) solution—strategy, services and technology—to modernize its procurement and supply chain. YBS needed a partner to redesign the procurement organisation, close process gaps, improve enterprise-wide visibility and reduce supplier and operational risk while creating a more strategic, digitally enabled function.

GEP consolidated S2C, SRM, contract management and P2P under a single procurement umbrella, aligned category experts to business units, instituted 360-degree risk scans, and deployed the AI-driven SMART by GEP platform. The work delivered rapid, measurable impact: a 290% increase in savings, 400% growth in supplier coverage, 100+ users and 200+ suppliers on SMART, plus project-level gains (5%+ savings on consulting and ~15–20% on digital transformation suppliers), and a more trusted, proactive procurement function.

Yorkshire Building Society

Paul Howley

Director of Transformation