GEP Smart joins Azure marketplace
The GEP Smart procurement solution has been added to the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store for cloud applications and services certified to run on Azure.
GEP’s source-to-pay platform – which is used by companies in 120 countries – helps large organizations improve efficiency, visibility, and agility in procurement and purchasing. The GEP Smart functions on the Azure marketplace will include spend analysis, sourcing, contract management, supplier management, savings project management, catalog management, and category workbench.
“Through our solutions, we strive to digitally transform procurement operations, drive shorter time to value, and accelerate return on investment," said Suresh Visvanathan, global head of software sales, GEP. "The availability of our GEP SMART solutions in the Azure Marketplace enables us to offer these key benefits to a wider range of organizations. We are excited to potentially reach new global markets, upsell, and cross-sell our solutions as customers move their workloads to the cloud."
The Azure marketplace provides enterprise clients with ready-to-use solutions spanning software-as-a-services, networking, databases, blockchain, and security, among other categories.
“Through Microsoft Azure Marketplace, customers around the world can easily find, buy, and deploy partner solutions they can trust, all certified and optimized to run on Azure," said Jake Zborowski, general manager, Microsoft Azure platform at Microsoft Corp. "We're happy to welcome GEP's solution to the growing Azure Marketplace ecosystem."
GEP works with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 businesses globally to solve supply chain challenges. The Clark, NJ-based firm provides consulting in procurement transformation, opportunity assessment, strategic cost management, supply chain risk management, and M&A, as well as managed services in planning and forecasting, inventory management, logistics management, data management, and supply risk management.
GEP’s proprietary software includes GEP Smart and GEP Nexxe, an end-to-end supply chain management platform.