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.

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.  

Procurement Outsourcing Vendor Profile: Capgemini Procurement BPO

Company Profile: With more than 115,000 people in 40 countries, Capgemini provides consulting, technology and outsourcing services. Capgemini offers a wide range of procurement services and PO revenues contribute more than US$150 million to total revenues.  

Managed Spend: Manage over US$ 14 billion spend and has more than 10 years' expertise in sourcing and procurement. Capgemini has worked on sourcing and procurement programs worth more than US$20 billion in past five years and delivered US$1 billion in savings. More than 1500 S2P specialists.  

Sourcing & Category Management: Sourcing management, Compliance management, Order management, Purchase to Pay management, Reporting, Contract management, IBX Spend Cloud, etc. 

Locations: Capgemini PO delivery locations include U.S.,  Canada, India, Poland, Guatemala, Brazil, Germany, France, U.K., China, Sweden. 

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.  

Category Expertise: Management of all indirect & direct categories across industry verticals. Indirect category expertise in IT Hardware & Software, Telecom, Temporary Labor & HR Services, Office supplies, Fleet vehicles, Engineered  Procurement and construction services, etc. 

Direct Categories like raw materials like Rubber, Glass, etc. Equipment like Transformers, Transmission Lines, Composite poles, Operated equipment, Steel for cables for electricity distribution, etc. 

Key Clients: Kraft, Novozymes, Hydro One, Hilti Corporation, Ericsson, Skanska, Deutsche Lufthansa, Deutsche Post DHL, Saab Aerospace, SEB, Prysmian, Vodafone, JCB, EFH, Syngenta, Dairy Farm, Ontario Power and Gas, and Blue Scope Steel.  

PO related Activities:

Partnerships: Alliance with SAP to provide IBX Procurement  Cloud based offerings.

Ariba, Emptoris Oracle are other technology partners. 

Acquisitions: Capgemini acquired IBX in February 2010 and IBX offers cloud based procurement BPO offerings and is a on-demand eProcurement and eAuction technologies.