Case Study: Fortune 500 CPG Company achieves $200M in savings and enhanced spend visibility with GEP SMART

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 sought to protect margins by identifying and converting indirect‑spend opportunities into hard savings while unifying procurement operations and improving collaboration.

The company deployed SMART by GEP as a unified, AI‑powered source‑to‑pay platform for spend analysis, sourcing, category and contract management, and savings tracking, centralizing procurement across 40+ countries in 15 languages. The program brought roughly two‑thirds of indirect spend under management, classified $8 billion of annual spend across 5 million line‑items, managed over 15,000 contracts and sourced 200+ categories — delivering $200 million in savings over three years, a 3.6% savings run rate and more than 25% P&L impact.