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GEP SMART and Llamasoft Supply Chain Guru are both enterprise-focused products that facilitate supply chain management. However, GEP SMART is a more specialized point solution, while Llamasoft is a broader supply chain suite. 

GEP SMART is a point solution for the source-to-pay procurement process that unifies procurement processes across various financial systems in the enterprise, delivering global visibility into organizations’ spend. In contrast, Llamasoft is a broader end-to-end supply chain management product with an emphasis on analytics and scenario planning. 

Features

GEP SMART and Llamasoft each offer robust advantages tailored to their target use cases. 

GEP SMART’s focus on procurement processes allows it to deliver exceptional customization and support to customers. Reviewers report robust assistance from the vendor to customize their platform deployments to meet their specific business needs. It also offers excellent customizability in its workflows, documentation, and ad hoc reporting capabilities. 

Llamasoft excels as a broader end-to-end supply chain solution. It offers functionality to support organizations’ inventory and production management, transportation, and spend processes. These capabilities offer the potential for businesses to use Llamasoft as a one-stop-shop for supply chain management, particularly if scenario and contingency planning is a priority for the enterprise. 

Limitations

There are also some limitations to GEP SMART and Llamasoft Supply Chain Guru worth considering. 

Llamasoft’s wide range of capabilities can trade off with the depth of any particular supply chain area. Additionally, the platform’s support for data manipulation and customization is more limited than some users would like. The customer support is also lacking and can be tricky of customers to navigate when they have issues that cross different supply chain processes.

On the other hand, GEP SMART does not support the full supply chain process, focusing instead purely on procurement and spend visibility. Reviewers point out that there is room for more automation in the system, particularly around data cleaning and communication between procurement processes. There are also some inefficiencies around procurement vendor management. 

Pricing 

GEP SMART is priced by quote from the vendor. 

Llamasoft Supply Chain Guru is also priced by quote from the vendor.