Perfect Circle Competitors

Bain & Company is a global consultancy that helps the world’s most ambitious change makers define the future. Across 65 cities in 40 countries, we work alongside our clients as one team with a shared ambition to achieve extraordinary results, outperform the competition, and redefine industries. We complement our tailored, integrated expertise with a vibrant ecosystem of digital innovators to deliver better, faster, and more enduring outcomes. Our 10-year commitment to invest more than $1 billion in pro bono services brings our talent, expertise, and insight to organizations tackling today’s urgent challenges in education, racial equity, social justice, economic development, and the environment. We earned a platinum rating from EcoVadis, the leading platform for environmental, social, and ethical performance ratings for global supply chains, putting us in the top 1% of all companies. Since our founding in 1973, we have measured our success by the success of our clients.

GEP® delivers AI-native procurement and supply chain solutions that help global enterprises become more agile and resilient, operate more efficiently and effectively, gain competitive advantage, boost profitability and increase shareholder value. Fresh thinking, innovative products, unrivaled domain expertise, smart, passionate people — this is how GEP SOFTWARE™, GEP STRATEGY™ and GEP MANAGED SERVICES™ together deliver procurement and supply chain solutions of unprecedented scale, power and effectiveness. Our customers are the world’s best companies, including more than 1,000 Fortune 500 and Global 2000 industry leaders who rely on GEP to meet ambitious strategic, financial and operational goals. A leader in multiple Gartner Magic Quadrants, GEP’s AI-native procurement and supply chain platform consistently wins awards and recognition from industry analysts, research firms and media outlets, including Gartner, Forrester, IDC, ISG, and Spend Matters. GEP is also regularly ranked a top procurement and supply chain consulting and strategy firm, and a leading managed services provider by ALM, Everest Group, NelsonHall, IDC, ISG and HFS, among others. Headquartered in Clark, New Jersey, GEP has offices and operations centers across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. To learn more, visit www.gep.com.

Proxima works with Chief Procurement Officers who expect procurement to deliver measurable performance, support growth, and lead with confidence. We help CPOs strengthen procurement capability, improve commercial outcomes, and build high-performing teams that can operate at scale in complex organizations. Procurement for the Bold is about making clear commercial choices, acting decisively, and backing procurement to deliver real impact. CPOs work with Proxima to: • Deliver cost and value outcomes that stand up to executive scrutiny • Strengthen category strategy, sourcing decisions, and supplier leverage • Build procurement operating models that support growth • Equip procurement teams with the skills, tools, and confidence to perform • Increase procurement’s credibility with the C suite and the board We focus on what works in practice, not theory. Expertise that delivers. Our teams bring deep functional procurement experience and understand the realities of running procurement in large, complex organizations. We work alongside client teams to ensure improvements are embedded in day-to-day operations, not left as recommendations. Proxima is part of Bain & Company, combining the focus of a specialist procurement consultancy with access to global insight, scale, and best practice. Built for leaders. Powered by people.. Procurement performance depends on people as much as process. We help CPOs build procurement functions that attract strong talent, develop future leaders, and create teams that are confident, capable, and commercially respected. If you believe procurement should lead with confidence and deliver at pace, you are in the right place.