Case Study: Leading Clothing and Accessories Retailing Company achieves enterprise-wide spend visibility and 95% spend accuracy with GEP SMART

Global Retailer Enhances Spend Management Capabilities with GEP SMART™

A global clothing and accessories retailer with over 155,000 employees in 96 countries and more than $19 billion in annual revenue needed better control of enterprise and tail spend. Its legacy ERP provided poor data collection and consolidation, limiting spend visibility, slowing category management and making it hard to automate spend analysis and identify savings.

The company deployed cloud-native, AI-powered GEP SMART across 10 business units in two months, customizing spend taxonomy, enabling monthly refresh cycles and SSO, and working with the procurement CoE to drive adoption. The platform now manages over $3 billion in annual indirect spend across 45,000 suppliers, delivering >95% spend-analysis accuracy, ~98% visibility, a 40% reduction in turnaround time, improved operational efficiency and identified cost-savings opportunities.