Procurement BPO Services Overview

In today’s economy, chief procurement officers are not only expected to drive large reductions in their procurement spend but they are also under intense pressure to make every business process as efficient as possible. In short, they are expected to do more with less. Accenture can help.

According to Accenture research Outsourcing and Procurement Mastery, there are strong links between procurement mastery and procurement business process outsourcing: procurement masters achieved savings that are 30 percent higher than low performers—despite running procurement organizations that cost half as much to operate.

Accenture can help you achieve a rapid, sustainable improvement in procurement performance including deep sourcing savings, an improved control environment, standardized processes and tools and increased visibility into organization-wide spend.

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For companies looking for value-generating procurement transformation as part of a wider strategy to achieve high performance, Accenture offers compelling solutions, deeply skilled resources and a track record of innovation and measurable results. The Accenture Global Delivery Network means our services are scalable to clients’ business needs, assuring them of access to skills and innovation they need.

We leverage our category management expertise, market insight and economies of scale to help clients achieve sustained cost savings.

• In one year, we achieved sourcing savings of $400 million (15 percent) and delivered additional savings of $28 million through e-auctions for a banking client.
  
  
• We delivered 35 percent savings as compared with the previous year through buying centers established in 50 countries, virtually eliminating non-compliant spend and greatly improving the control and buying power of a global technology company.
  
  
• Last year we delivered $3.7 million in indirect spend savings and reduced back-office operating costs by 25 percent at a property management and financial services company.
  
  
• We generated savings of 23 percent across seven categories and improved compliance levels by implementing a new procurement system and optimized processes for a construction services company.

What our Clients say about us
“The business case for OneFinance enables us to generate a 35 percent reduction in our run rate, but the real benefit to the project is our ability to drive the procurement organization to enhance their sourcing capability. The savings and the benefit that accrues to Microsoft generates a payback in less than six months of our original cost.”—Taylor Hawes, general manager and controller, finance operations, Microsoft

"Procurement outsourcing is an industry game-changer. It is inevitable that CPOs will have to go down this path. There will be a tidal wave of activity and you need to get in early, as we did, to get the most value."—Jeff Baer, global head of sourcing, Deutsche Bank

“The savings achieved so far have already exceeded our expectations and Hochtief has decided to expand the program beyond the German-speaking countries to the rest of Europe and the United States.”—Dr. Martin Rohr, executive board member, Hochtief

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We offer a full suite of source-to-pay BPO services including:

• Sourcing and category management, including sourcing, demand management and supplier performance management.
  
  
• Sourcing support, including spend analytics, market analysis, spot buy, auction services and contract administration.
  
  
• Procurement operations, requisition processing, invoice processing, travel and expenses processing, supplier enablement and catalog enablement.

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