Procurement Outsourcing Vendor Profile: Global eProcure

Company Profile: GEP is a procurement services firm dedicated to helping enterprises reduce their costs through procurement and supply chain transformation. Company offer comprehensive procurement consulting, technology and outsourcing solutions to Global 2000 companies. Over 12 years of experience in providing procurement services and is based in Clark, New Jersey, USA.  

Managed Spend: Manage more than  US$ 50 billion spend, processing over 6 Million transactions sourced, up to 250 events per client, per year.  and managed across multiple categories and has more than More than 700+ experienced professionals. Extensive library of RFP templates, toolkits and other resources. Multi-lingual phone support in over 20 languages. 

Sourcing & Category Management: The end-to-end sourcing & procurement solutions include strategic sourcing, spend analytics, category mgmt, contract management, sourcing support like spot buy, eAuction, Market intelligence, Low Cost Country Sourcing, supplier data, catalog content, RFPs, etc.  

Locations: Global eProcure PO delivery locations include Los Angeles, U.S., Costa Rica, Sao Paulo, Brazil, London, U.K., Prague, Czech Republic, Shanghai, China, Mumbai, and Hyderabad, India. 

Category Expertise: Management of all direct & indirect across industry verticals. MRO & Capex, Logistics, Packaging, HR , Facilities, Professional, Administration related expenses, Marketing, IT related Hardware, Software, Services, Telecom, etc. 

Direct expenses include Energy & Utilities, Natural gas, Packaging Equipment, Metals, Plastics, electric components, etc.

Key Clients: 120+ customers in 20 different industries including Fortune 500 companies. Clients include Bayer, Essilor, Kellogs, Saint-Gobain, Adobe, Estee Lauder, L'Oreal, Starwood, Triumph Group, Bissell, etc. 

Vertical & Geography Mix: Consumer goods, energy & utilities, financial services, industrial manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, technology, telecommunications, travel & hospitality, nonprofit, healthcare, education, public sector organizations. 

PO related Activities:

In January 2012, acquired Enporion that provides strategic sourcing and e-procurement applications and serves customers in the electric and gas utilities, manufacturing and distribution industries.

Fully integrated GEp Suite 5.0, SaaS based procurement technology suite supporting all source-to-pay functions. GEP technology suite tools include GEP Spend, GEP RFx/GEP Auction, GEP Contract, GEP Supplier, GEP Purchase.

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Procurement Outsourcing Vendor Profile: Wipro Procurement BPO

Company Profile: Wipro limited is a global IT services and consulting company  and provides outsourced research and development, infrastructure outsourcing, business process outsourcing (BPO) and business consulting services. Wipro PO services offer customized solutions across the source-to-pay cycle. PO contributes around US$100 million to total revenues.  

Managed Spend: Manage around US$ 9 billion spend and has more than More than 70+ experienced professionals who are certified procurement consultants, supply chain professionals and commodity managers from different industry verticals. More than 700+ professionals with P2P expertise. Lean and six sigma based delivery.  

Sourcing & Category Management: The end-to-end solutions include material master data management, spend analytics, category management, contract management, sourcing support and P2P cycle management.   

Locations: Wipro PO delivery locations include Romania, Mexico, India - Chennai, Bangalore, New Delhi, Gurgaon, Shanghai (China), San Diego (U.S.), Troy, Michigan (U.S.) and the U.K.  

Category Expertise: Management of all indirect across industry verticals. Indirect category expertise in IT Hardware & Software, Telecom, Temporary Labor & HR Services, Office supplies, etc. Global delivery model – ability to spread SME resources across onsite, near shore and offshore locations  

Key Clients: Sears, Bell Canada, GM, BP, Boeing,etc.  

Vertical & Geography Mix: Manufacturing is the dominant vertical followed by BFSI, Hi-tech, CPG, Utilities, etc. North America followed by Europe, Asia Pacific are the key geographies.  

PO related Activities:

Partnerships: Technology partnerships with IASTA and Ariba for spend management and sourcing management. SAP, Oracle are other technology partners.  

Wipro has ability to host S2P service as SaaS solution or on demand solution. Procurement Automation tools like Proprietary application Base™, which can extract spend data from multiple enterprise applications.  

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Procurement Outsourcing Vendor Profile: Infosys Procurement BPO

Company Profile: Infosys provides business consulting, technology, engineering and outsourcing services to help clients in over 30 countries to build tomorrow's enterprise. Infosys BPO's Sourcing and Procurement solutions provide transformational benefits across the entire Source-to-Procure and Payment value cycle through a Global Operating Model.

Managed Spend: Manage over US$ 17 billion spend, conduct approx 2500 sourcing/e-sourcing events per annum and process 15million PO line items per years for the clients globally. more than 1000 Sourcing and Procurement professionals with over 1500+ man years experience. Procurement BPO contributes around US$100 million in revenues. 

Sourcing & Category Management: Spend Analytics, Evaluate, Negotiate & Buy,  Market/Demand Analysis, Supplier Adoption, Contract Compliance, Accounts Payable, catalog & content management, Supplier performance Management, Contract management, Validations, etc. 

Category Expertise: Management of all indirect & direct categories across industry verticals. Indirect category expertise in IT Hardware & Software, Telecom, Temporary Labour & HR Services, Freight & logistics, Marketing & Travel, Material Office Supplies, Utilities, etc.  

Direct Categories like Manufacturing consumables, repair and operations items, fabrication parts and equipment spares, industrial supplies, etc.

Locations: Infosys PO delivery locations include India (Bangalore, Jaipur, Pune, Gurgaon, Chennai), Brno (Czech Republic), Lodz (Poland), Manila (Philippines), Hangzhou (China), Bangkok (Thailand), Belo Horizontal (Brazil),  Monterrey (Mexico). 

Key Clients: BP, Rio Tinto, Caterpillar, Microsoft, Royal Phillips, etc. Recently Portland Group which has 40 odd clients in Australia.  

Vertical & Geography Mix: Manufacturing is the dominant vertical followed by Pharma, BFSI, Hi-tech, Retail, Utilities, etc. North America followed by Europe, Asia Pacific are the key geographies. 

PO related Activities:

Partnerships: Alliance with SAP to provide Source to Pay Platform based on SAP(SRM). Ariba, Ketera, Oyster, BIQ, Infosys Proprietary tool (CPO Dashboard/SCV platform)  

India’s First Sourcing & Procurement Academy which provides deep domain knowledge in the BPO space and is aligned to International Purchasing & Supply Chain Management Institute. 

Acquisitions: Philips SSC in 2007 that added three delivery centers at Lodz, Poland; Bangkok, Thailand; and Chennai, India. 

In 2011 acquired Portland Group which is a provider of strategic sourcing and category management services in Australia.

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