In our assessment the three strongest supplier intelligence tools for GEP SMART in 2026 are Speya for off-network discovery and AI vetting, Supplier.io Atlas for cleaning the supplier master GEP reads from, and Veridion for greenfield search at scale. Speya ranks first on the criteria below because no procurement suite owns it, and because it searches beyond any single supplier network.
This list covers eight tools: what each does, who owned it in September 2026 on the public record, how it connects to GEP, and where it falls short. Ownership in this category moved twice in the past year.
Disclosure: this guide is published by Speya, which appears in the ranking. Speya has no partnership with GEP or with any other vendor listed, and nothing here is endorsed by them. Product names are trademarks of their owners. Details about third-party products come from the public sources listed at the end, as of 3 September 2026.
Why do GEP SMART teams add a supplier intelligence layer?
Because, in our reading of GEP’s own pages, the supplier data behind discovery comes from named third parties. As of 3 September 2026, GEP’s supplier management page lists a Supplier Discovery Agent that “identifies new suppliers using performance and public data,” and a Profile Enrichment Agent that “enhances supplier data with third-party sources.” The same page carries a Supplier Intelligence partner block naming TealBook, Moody’s, LexisNexis, Dun & Bradstreet, Vertex, CDQ, Early Warning and TrustPair. The one coverage figure we found is the “5M+ trading partners accessible” claim on GEP’s Multi-Enterprise Collaboration Network page, which describes a transactional network rather than a search index.
One thing changed this year. GEP’s October 2021 release named TealBook for supplier intelligence, supplier discovery and vendor certificate data, and we found no other GEP partner named for supplier discovery as of 3 September 2026. Supplier.io announced its acquisition of TealBook on 2 April 2026 and said it would fold that data foundation into a product called Atlas. GEP’s TealBook partner page still listed TealBook on 3 September 2026. Coupa announced a definitive agreement to acquire Scoutbee, which Gartner had named a Sample Vendor for Supplier Discovery, on 6 October 2025.
Gartner treats this as its own market. Its Hype Cycle for Procurement and Sourcing Solutions, 2025, read in a vendor-hosted reprint, carries Supplier Discovery as a standalone innovation profile: maturity Emerging, market penetration 1% to 5% of target audience, benefit rating High. GEP appears in that document as a Sample Vendor for Source-to-Pay Suites and does not appear under Supplier Discovery. Gartner’s stated user recommendation is to “Investigate AI and graph technology solutions to establish an autonomous supplier discovery process that operates independently from other systems.” None of this says anything about how GEP customers rate the suite. It is Gartner’s own definition, in which supplier discovery is not one of the base modules of a source-to-pay suite.
How we ranked these tools
Five criteria, in order. Every judgement under them is Speya’s editorial assessment, not a measurement.
Coverage beyond the network. Can it find a supplier that never registered anywhere?
AI vetting with sources. Does every claim carry evidence you can open?
Independence. Who owns the vendor, and who pays to be in the database?
How it connects to GEP. A listed partnership, GEP’s REST or Bulk APIs, GEP CLICK, an MCP server, or CSV and SFTP. We found no public GEP app marketplace as of 3 September 2026, so there is no self-serve install to point at.
Time to a usable shortlist. McKinsey writes that “it takes about three months to complete a single supplier search, with a sourcing professional logging more than 40 hours of work.”
The 8 best supplier intelligence tools for GEP SMART in 2026
1. Speya
Speya is an independent AI supplier intelligence platform, built and operated by Findmyfactory AB in Stockholm and renamed from Find My Factory on 1 September 2026. A team describes a sourcing need in plain language. AI agents search millions of supplier profiles built from 250+ data sources, vet candidates against certifications, financial health, ESG and sanctions, and return a tiered shortlist in minutes with sources beside every name. Speya does not sell listings or rankings to suppliers. It is EU-hosted, with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II.
Best for: off-network discovery and AI vetting with cited evidence, alongside GEP SMART.
Works with GEP SMART via: the live Speya API plus spreadsheet exports. Integrations are built on request through that open API, where they make technical and commercial sense, and a shortlist can be written into your supplier master or a sourcing event through GEP’s own REST, Bulk or SFTP surfaces. Speya’s MCP server is coming, not live.
Where it falls short: Speya is not a source-to-pay suite. It does not run sourcing events, contracts, purchase orders or invoices, so GEP SMART stays the system of record. Speya has no connector certified or listed by a suite vendor, API access is reviewed rather than self-serve, the MCP server is not live yet, and pricing is on request.
2. Supplier.io Atlas, built on TealBook
Atlas is Supplier.io’s vendor master data product, built on TealBook after the acquisition Supplier.io announced on 2 April 2026. That announcement markets Atlas as covering “225 million global supplier profiles and verified legal registries.” GEP’s October 2021 release with TealBook described the integrated data as covering supplier intelligence, supplier discovery and vendor certificate data, and GEP listed TealBook as an Integration Partner on 3 September 2026.
Best for: cleaning the supplier master GEP reads from, with certification and diversity attributes attached.
Works with GEP SMART via: the TealBook partnership GEP listed as of 3 September 2026. After the acquisition Supplier.io announced, ask Supplier.io about current scope.
Where it falls short: in our assessment it is a data foundation rather than a sourcing workflow with an audit trail, and we found no integration detail published by GEP as of 3 September 2026.
3. Veridion
Veridion, formerly Soleadify, is a Bucharest company founded in 2019. It runs a global company knowledge graph with a natural-language Search API and a Match and Enrich API, and its procurement page claims continuous detection from over a thousand sources. We checked Coupa Ventures, Workday Ventures, Oracle, GEP, Zycus, JAGGAER and Ivalua and found no investment or OEM tie.
Best for: greenfield discovery beyond the GEP Business Network.
Works with GEP SMART via: we found no GEP partnership on either side as of 3 September 2026, so GEP’s REST or Bulk APIs, GEP CLICK, an MCP server, or CSV and SFTP.
Where it falls short: we found no GEP integration to buy, so someone builds and maintains the path. On the criteria above it is a data layer rather than a sourcing process.
4. Dun & Bradstreet
D&B supplies firmographics, D-U-N-S identity resolution, corporate linkage, and financial and compliance data. GEP listed D&B on both its Integration Partners directory and its Supplier Intelligence block on 3 September 2026. Clearlake Capital’s own announcement states that it completed the take-private of D&B on 26 August 2025 at a $7.7B enterprise value. Clearlake is generalist private equity, and D&B is named as a data source by several other suites too.
Best for: resolving and deduplicating supplier entities across GEP and your ERP masters.
Works with GEP SMART via: the listed GEP Integration Partner relationship. As of 3 September 2026 GEP’s D&B partner page carried a logo and a contact form, and we found no integration description on it.
Where it falls short: on the criteria above, D&B answers who a company is rather than who could make your part. It is identity and risk data rather than capability-led discovery.
5. EcoVadis
EcoVadis produces business sustainability ratings and scorecards on suppliers. GEP listed EcoVadis as an Integration Partner on 3 September 2026, named EcoVadis a technology partner in its 22 February 2021 partner-program release, and lists it under risk and compliance on the GEP Quantum Intelligence page. We found only financial investors: CVC Growth Partners in January 2020, then a Series D announced on 14 June 2022 led by Astorg and BeyondNetZero.
Best for: CSRD and CSDDD-driven supplier ESG evidence inside onboarding and qualification.
Works with GEP SMART via: the listed GEP Integration Partner relationship. As of 3 September 2026 we found no integration description on GEP’s EcoVadis page.
Where it falls short: a rating depends on the supplier completing the assessment, and Gartner writes that “Discovery solutions necessitate supplier engagement to develop comprehensive datasets.” In our assessment it rates suppliers rather than finding them.
6. Prewave
Prewave is a Vienna company founded in 2017. Its AI monitors public sources for supply-chain risk and sub-tier disruption, with EU due-diligence law as its center of gravity, and it publishes an API. Gartner names Prewave a Sample Vendor for Multitier Supplier Visibility and for Supplier Risk Management, and it does not appear under Supplier Discovery in that document. Its EUR 63M Series B in June 2024 was led by Hedosophia, and we found no suite-vendor investor.
Best for: continuous risk and disruption alerts on suppliers you already use.
Works with GEP SMART via: we found nothing published on either side as of 3 September 2026. Prewave’s integrations page names no procurement suite, so this is a custom API or file build.
Where it falls short: in our assessment Prewave monitors rather than discovers. It will tell you a known supplier is at risk rather than hand you five vetted alternatives.
7. Scoutbee
Scoutbee was founded in 2015 in Wurzburg, and Gartner named it a Sample Vendor for Supplier Discovery in the June 2025 Hype Cycle. Scoutbee became an SAP Endorsed App, with Scoutbee Discovery integrated into SAP Ariba guided sourcing. Coupa then announced a definitive agreement to acquire Scoutbee on 6 October 2025.
Best for: AI-led supplier discovery, for teams comfortable buying it from a suite vendor.
Works with GEP SMART via: we found no GEP relationship on either side. Its documented suite integration is SAP Ariba guided sourcing.
Where it falls short: independence, on the criteria above. A GEP customer would be buying discovery from a competing suite vendor.
8. Interos
Interos maps multitier supplier relationships and scores risk across financial, cyber, geopolitical, ESG and restrictions dimensions. Gartner names it a Sample Vendor for Multitier Supplier Visibility and for Supplier Risk Management. On ownership: the Series C that took Interos to unicorn status, announced on 6 December 2021, added Accenture Ventures, Coupa Ventures and ServiceNow Ventures as strategic investors, and we found no later public statement that those positions changed.
Best for: n-tier visibility and concentration risk across a known supplier base.
Works with GEP SMART via: we found no GEP partnership, so a custom API or file build.
Where it falls short: on the independence criterion above, a procurement suite vendor’s venture arm joined a funding round. In our assessment it monitors rather than discovers.
How to choose a supplier intelligence tool for GEP SMART
Five questions before the demo.
Who owns the vendor? Coupa announced its agreement to acquire Scoutbee on 6 October 2025, Coupa Ventures joined the Interos Series C announced in December 2021, and Supplier.io announced its acquisition of TealBook on 2 April 2026. Ask each vendor to confirm its current ownership in writing.
Who pays to be in the database? A GEP customer’s supplier enablement page states there is no cost for suppliers to transact on the GEP platform. Hold third-party databases to the same test. In our assessment, if suppliers pay for placement, a shortlist is closer to advertising than to research.
Does it search past the registration gate? Gartner’s stated obstacle for the category is the absence of “a unified global supplier database,” with the market “fragmented, with variations in the number, type of suppliers and data enrichment available.” Greenfield sourcing needs a layer that reads registries, filings, trade data and the open web.
Can it leave with you? Gartner recommends a discovery process that “operates independently from other systems.” In our assessment, a layer bundled into a suite stays with the suite.
How fast is a defensible shortlist, with sources? Ask to see the evidence behind three names, live.
Frequently asked questions
Does GEP SMART have supplier discovery built in?
Yes, as a named agent. As of 3 September 2026 GEP’s supplier management page lists a Supplier Discovery Agent that “identifies new suppliers using performance and public data,” and a Profile Enrichment Agent that “enhances supplier data with third-party sources.” In our assessment it is an agent inside a workflow rather than an open searchable database, and we found no published corpus behind it.
Where does GEP get its supplier data?
From named third parties. As of 3 September 2026 GEP’s Supplier Intelligence block listed TealBook, Moody’s, LexisNexis, Dun & Bradstreet, Vertex, CDQ, Early Warning and TrustPair, and its Integration Partners directory added Dow Jones, RapidRatings and SecurityScorecard. GEP’s October 2021 release named TealBook for supplier discovery data, and Supplier.io announced its acquisition of TealBook on 2 April 2026.
Does GEP support MCP?
Yes, as its stated standard. GEP’s agentic integration page states that “integration is standardized through the Model Context Protocol, an industry standard adopted across major model providers,” and that MCP “reduces deployment time for new source-to-pay connections by 60 to 70 percent.” We found no public GEP MCP registry as of 3 September 2026, so onboarding routes through GEP.
How does a third-party tool push supplier data into GEP SMART?
Through GEP’s public REST and Bulk APIs at api.gep.com, with separate authentication for GEP SMART and GEP QUANTUM. Suppliers are modeled as “Partner” in the Master Data APIs. Customers can choose REST, SOAP or FTP and SFTP, and GEP QUANTUM accepts cXML, XML, EDI-X12, JSON, PIDX and CSV.
Is the GEP Business Network free for suppliers?
On the published evidence, yes. A GEP customer’s supplier portal guide describes a one time, two step registration for the GEP Business Network and the buying application, and a GEP customer’s supplier enablement page states there is no cost for suppliers to transact on the GEP platform. SAP’s own learning material describes a subscription plus a transaction fee for SAP Business Network Enterprise accounts.
Disclosure
Speya publishes this guide and is one of the tools ranked in it. Speya is not affiliated with, endorsed by or in partnership with GEP or any other company named on this page. GEP SMART and all other product names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used only to identify the products discussed.
Statements about third-party products describe publicly available information from the sources listed below, as of 3 September 2026. Products, ownership, partnerships and pricing change. Speya does not guarantee that this information is complete or current and will correct any error a vendor reports through the contact page.
Rankings, “best for” notes and “where it falls short” remarks are Speya’s editorial assessment against the criteria stated above. They are not measurements and not statements by the vendors.
Speya connects to third-party systems through its open API. Enterprise teams can build a custom integration with GEP SMART, or ask Speya to scope one, on request and where it makes technical and commercial sense. Speya does not offer a certified or vendor-listed connector for GEP SMART and does not warrant compatibility with, or the continued availability of, any third-party system.
Sources
GEP supplier management software: agents and the Supplier Intelligence partner block
GEP Multienterprise Collaboration Network, 5M+ trading partners
myBuy GEP SMART supplier portal guide: two-step registration
GEP expands global partnership program, naming EcoVadis a technology partner
Gartner Hype Cycle for Procurement and Sourcing Solutions, 2025
Gartner Hype Cycle for Procurement and Sourcing Solutions, 2025 abstract
McKinsey: with artificial intelligence, find new suppliers in days, not months
Supplier.io acquires TealBook, connecting supplier intelligence and enterprise data management
EcoVadis secures $500M investment from Astorg and BeyondNetZero
Interos announces investors in funding round that vaulted it to unicorn status
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