Case Study: Lionsgate, a Global Entertainment Company, achieves 97% spend visibility with GEP SMART

How Entertainment Company Lionsgate Gained 97% Spend Visibility With GEP SMART

Lionsgate, a global entertainment company with divisions in film, television and streaming, struggled to get clear insight into its roughly $1 billion annual spend across three ERP systems and extensive use of P‑cards. The company needed an enterprise-wide, industry‑aligned solution to improve spend visibility, analysis and categorization.

Lionsgate implemented GEP SMART globally in 12 months, deploying spend analysis, monthly data refreshes, vendor‑parent linkage for 25,000+ suppliers, and dashboards and reports. The platform delivered rapid monthly refreshes (three‑day turnaround), more than 90% spend classification accuracy, 97% visibility into spend, and a 13% reduction in vendor duplication through name cleansing and parent compression—enabling clearer supplier consolidation and better identification of low-dollar purchases.