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Business Process Outsourcing: Accenture Procurement BPO Services | | | | | | | Overview | | Partnering with an outsourcing services leader like Accenture can help you improve bottom-line performance by reducing the cost of doing business.
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In most organizations, purchasing indirect materials and services such as
information technology, office supplies and temporary labor—or managing basic
processes such as procure-to-pay—are not considered core competencies. As a
result, these organizations commonly lack category management expertise across
the broad array of indirect commodities they procure.
They also struggle with low levels of purchasing compliance to
enterprise-wide preferred vendor contracts, decentralized policies and spend
behaviors, high levels of paper-based activity in the requisition-to-pay
process, and highly distributed transaction processing across the enterprise.
These can be costly shortcomings, given that indirect spending can amount to 10
percent to 15 percent of an organization's revenues, translating into hundreds
of millions—or even billions—of dollars for large enterprises.
If your organization faces one or more of these operational challenges,
then your business may be ready to reap substantial savings by outsourcing one
or more aspects of its procurement function. Accenture can deliver dramatic savings by helping your organization to:
- Source effectively. Since Accenture
procures materials and services for many clients, new opportunities arise to
save money by having access to deeper category expertise and aggregated
agreements.
- Connect with a larger base of suppliers.
Accenture manages a broad pool of suppliers, which
provides us with additional opportunities to capture lower prices and achieve a
better fit with your procurement needs.
- Increase contract compliance. Raising
on-contract buys from, for example, 60 percent to 95 percent can reduce your
costs by up to 10 percent.
- Operate more efficiently. As a third-party
service provider, we distinguish ourselves through exceptional levels of
process rigor, discipline and control.
- Address complex services spend. More than
one-third of a typical organization’s spend is on services, such as
contractors, temporary labor, travel and marketing. Purchasing departments
generally manage less than 10 percent of this spend, and compliance with
preferred providers is low. Accenture professionals have
deep experience managing a wide range of services
categories.
- Leverage technology more effectively.
Accenture has more access to—and greater
proficiency in—leading-edge technologies. By outsourcing technology to
Accenture Procurement Solutions, you can minimize the significant investment
required to implement e-procurement and e-sourcing solutions. Additionally,
Accenture draws on its experience with these technologies to intensify supplier
competition and deliver better prices.
- Improve operational effectiveness. This is
another common characteristic of an outsourced procurement environment. For
example, we generally are better equipped to take advantage of early payment
discounts (potentially amortized across multiple buyers) and to optimize
invoice matching and processing. We also can enhance process controls and
reporting efficiencies with tighter procedures and better visibility of spend
pre-commitments. Lastly, Accenture can deliver a more
efficient cost model by using a blended workforce, which can include onshore,
nearshore and offshore resources.
Next: Why Accenture |
| | | Why Accenture | We draw upon our market-leading and proprietary technology-enabled
solutions, our global network of solution delivery centers, our proprietary
integrated approach to strategic sourcing and requisition-to-pay processing,
and our deep consulting expertise in sourcing and procurement. Accenture is one of the world's leading providers of outsourcing services.
In more than 10 years, we have assumed the management of key business processes
for hundreds of organizations, including numerous public- and private-sector
engagements focused on procurement. What attracted most of those clients is Accenture's exceptional combination
of skills, resources, experience, vision and scale. As a global management
consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, Accenture has devoted
millions of hours to helping clients improve business performance. Unparalleled
experience also means a powerful combination of technology acumen, niche
specialties, industry expertise and worldwide delivery centers, as well as a
broad complement of business and technology partners. With all these
advantages, Accenture is fully equipped to make the
transition smoother and the outsourcing solution more profitable. Accenture also understands that the best outsourcing relationships combine
global strength and local intimacy. This is why we built the Accenture Delivery
Center Network, which includes more than 40 interconnected centers of talent
and technology. Regardless of where your company's procurement efforts are
concentrated, numerous Accenture professionals work collaboratively on your
behalf—consistently applying the same proven methods and tools, and adhering to
the same high standards. The results of this approach are significant: maximum
cost-effectiveness; rapid knowledge transfer; thorough application of best
practices; and a committed, personal service relationship. In addition to providing global services to more than two-thirds of the
FORTUNE® Global 500, we strategically source a wide range of indirect goods and
services annually to run our own business. In early 2000, Accenture reinvented
its own procurement organization to support its transition to public ownership,
forming the foundation for Accenture Procurement BPO Services.
Our transformation program delivered a nearly 15 percent reduction in the
cost of goods and services for the spend under management. Today, Accenture
leverages the investment in this program, as well as the
deep procurement expertise housed in our Supply Chain Management service line,
to deliver sourcing and procurement savings for our clients. We offer a
comprehensive set of standardized services that can be provided individually or
combined to meet specific requirements.
- Sourcing and category management. Our
strategic sourcing methodology and supplier management capabilities can save
large organizations tens of millions of dollars by working on an ongoing basis
to:
- Identify the widest range and mix of qualified
suppliers.
- Leverage existing sourcing processes and the supplier base
more effectively.
- Negotiate and manage contracts to improve efficiency and
reduce costs.
- Transaction processing. Accenture
can assume responsibility for several procurement-related
transactional processes, such as requisitioning and procure-to- pay.
Consistent, service-focused process management—tightly aligned with the most
powerful enterprise spend management technologies—can produce savings of up to
3 percent of total spend.
- Infrastructure management. Accenture can also assume responsibility for managing your
procurement technology and infrastructure. By leveraging our operational scale
and experience, savings of up to 2 percent of total spend often
follow.
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