GEP: Transforming Procurement for Bangalore International
GEP has announced that it will be providing procurement services to India's third-largest airport.
To transform its source-to-pay operations, India’s Bangalore International Airport has selected GEP Software to help manage its spend.
This comes during time of uncertainty around the world, calling for a need of resilience building and procurement transformation.
A budding partnership
GEP SOFTWARE provides AI-powered solutions and platforms which help aid the transformation of procurement and supply chains around the world.
It helps businesses become more resilient and agile, gaining higher levels of profitability.
By using GEP, businesses can gain intuitive digital workspaces and see major growth in personal productivity and team efficiency.
GEP products rely on machine learning, advanced data, IoT, cloud technologies and more in order to meet innovations in technology.
Its software seamlessly works beside third-party systems, including SAP and Oracle.
The platform partners with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises across a range of industries.
Now, it is partnering with Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL).
BIAL operates Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru (BLR), the first Greenfield Airport - an airport built from scratch on untouched land - in India.
In 2001, BIAL was incorporated to build, own and operate BLR.
BLR Airport is the third largest in India and the busiest airport in South India. In 2025 Financial Year, BLR saw more than 41m passengers and processed 500,000 tonnes of cargo.
This ensured it remained India's No.1 airport for perishable cargo for the fourth year in a row.
In a move to further accelerate its growth and transformation, it is adopting GEP SOFTWARE to help specifically with its source-to-pay operations.
GEP's solutions
GEP SMART is the world's leading source-to-pay platform, designed to transform direct and indirect procurement.
The AI powered platform is designed to bring together every step of the source-to-pay process rather than have it across a range of platforms.
Through the unification of the steps, it is increasing efficiency, control and strategic impact of procurement.
Key functions include:
- Spend analysis - allows you to understand spend faster through AI, resulting in better savings opportunities
- Savings tracking - real time visibility into cost-saving initiatives, eliminating errors from data capture
- Sourcing - quickly identify and quality new suppliers through streamlining sourcing events
- Contract management - reduce time and effort through AI's help
- Supplier management - monitor thousands of suppliers and optimise supplier performance through scorecards, summary reports.
- Procure-to-pay - boost adoption and improve compliance whilst reducing cycle times
Through this partnership, BIAL will be able to streamline efficiency throughout its infrastructure and operations as it aims to become even larger.
It will see better quality sourcing, contracts, supplier management and procurement operations thanks to the new technology.
Rather than relying on human entry with a large amount of information to consider, GEP's platform brings it all together in one place and uses AI to find and create solutions.
This will significantly decrease the risk of human error, meaning operations will work more accurately and teams can work on other tasks - especially as the company expands.
Business transformation
BIAL has undergone significant transformation since its beginnings.
Chief Operating Officer at BIAL, Satyaki Raghunath, says: “Our team has worked closely with various stakeholders to develop frameworks for deployments like biometric boarding systems to make the journey seamless.
"We are integrating operational, commercial, and financial data to enable greater visibility to management, using AI and machine learning to make informed, sophisticated decisions about every aspect of our business.”
This partnership with GEP will see the increase in efficiency and agility across BIAL's procurement system, allowing for a more seamless growth in other areas.
Satyaki adds: “We are in the midst of a very exciting journey in the growth of BLR Airport and all of our efforts are focused on delivering projects and initiatives to keep passengers and stakeholders at the centre of our thoughts at all times.”
With changing industry needs and BIAL's own desire for growth, this partnership with GEP will allow the airport to develop a greater resilience whilst saving money.
Companies around the world have been helped by GEP's technology and BIAL is next in line for the digital procurement transformation.
