Chemicals: Services Overview

Our services help chemical companies transform into high-performance businesses that can succeed in a competitive and rapidly evolving global industry. We help chemical companies drive their performance to new heights in an evolving industry.
 
Accenture collaborate with leading chemical companies and suppliers to develop and execute global strategies, manage complexity and risk and drive innovation. We take an integrated approach to building high-performance businesses that can deliver consistent, sustained business results—today and tomorrow.

In our work with chemical companies, we offer a broad range of skills—from supply chain management to human-performance enhancement and leading-edge technology implementation. We provide clients with a holistic enterprise-wide view of critical value chain and business processes, bring together strategy and execution, and use our proven tools and methods to deliver solid business results.

We draw on our deep industry experience, gained through years of helping companies in all segments of the industry. We have developed a proven track record, working with 57 of the top 100 chemical companies worldwide, including the 10 largest. And we maintain close relationships with multiple industry organizations such as the American Chemistry Council and the European Petrochemical Association.

Below are some of the reasons why our clients choose Accenture:

• Global reach and scale. We have more than 17 years of operational experience in infrastructure outsourcing, with 13,000 professionals performing infrastructure-related work. We have more than 240 infrastructure outsourcing clients in 49 countries. We have strategic locations in Europe, North and South America and Asia Pacific, offering 24/7 coverage worldwide.
  
  
• Heritage of helping companies tackle business challenges. Through our research of top performing companies, we have learned that focus must be placed on managing, delivering, monitoring and measuring IT to ensure it is effectively enabling the business. This is the basis from how we approach our client relationships.
  
  
• Deep industry experience and expertise. Our deep industry knowledge enables us to apply vertical-specific factors for business success into our solutions to help clients manage their day-to-day businesses.
  
  
• Operational excellence. Accenture is known for its relentless focus on continuous improvement, exceeding industry standards, and leverage of business analytics to drive out savings. It’s in our DNA.
  
  
• Technology independence. Since we are technology-agnostic, we provide clients with unbiased technology advice. In addition, we have long-term partnerships with strategic alliances in the technology sector so we have intimate knowledge of various types of technology and are privy to innovations.
  
  
• Flexibility. We work with clients in a manner that fits their organizational culture and can move at a pace that is comfortable for their organization. We offer a spectrum of solutions for clients that help to meet their current and future business needs; structure deals that align our interests with our clients’ interests; and we do what is best for our clients in delivering services.
  
  
• Border-less company. We seamlessly interface between countries and cultures and multiple languages and service clients with competence, confidence and ease.
  
  
• Service integrator capability. Many clients employ multisourcing, yet it comes with the price of added complexity, increased costs and diluting the focus of critical in-house staff and management. We are especially skilled at managing a client’s needs across multiple service providers through our service management and integration services.
  
  

Applications Outsourcing
Accenture provides a spectrum of solutions to a chemical company's technology challenges. This spectrum begins with information technology outsourcing and encompasses a variety of complex issues—from managing platform migration to delivering managed hosting requirements. Another unique type of outsourcing leverages industry experience and shared resources to deliver business services from multiple application service providers to clients seamlessly and cost efficiently.

Business Process Outsourcing
Accenture provides customized delivery, management and continuous improvement of virtually any business function, including finance and accounting, human resources, indirect spend, supply chain and procurement and customer care. We concentrate our experience in processes and applications in our network of Accenture Delivery Centers.

Commodity Trading and Risk Management
Accenture Commodity Trading and Risk Management Services is an innovative, comprehensive and proven approach to managing risk, lowering costs and monetizing opportunities in an uncertain and volatile business environment. Our global group of consultants includes strategists; front-, middle- and back-office business analysts; change managers, functional architects, data architects and technical architects. We support physical and financial trading activity across crude, refined products, natural gas, electricity, base metals, emissions and other commodities. Our services include trading operations improvement, trading platforms and related IT and back-office managed services.

Enterprise Solutions
The Accenture Advanced Enterprise Solution for Chemicals is an innovative, comprehensive and proven enterprise resource planning solution that accelerates enterprise-wide business value for high performance. The solution links industry-specific processes to a preconfigured solution built on the latest SAP technology and is packaged with complete process documentation and industrialized implementation accelerators. This flexible solution can be aligned quickly with our clients' unique needs for fast results. With an enterprise resource planning approach that drives high performance, clients can focus on the complex business issues that sustain value.

Infrastructure Outsourcing
Our professionals collaborate with forward-thinking organizations to create low-cost, high-value solutions for the entire enterprise. Accenture infrastructure outsourcing services enable companies to transform business-critical applications and processes and achieve higher levels of performance.

Plant and Automation Solutions
To help asset-intensive companies, we have developed Accenture Plant and Automation Solutions. These vendor-neutral solutions address five key areas to help companies resolve short-term challenges and position for high performance in the long term:

• Core operations, enabling services
• Engineering, project and data management
• Environment, health and safety
• Industrial and automation capabilities

Solutions for REACH legislation
All companies along the European chemical value chain must comply with the 2007 European Union directive for Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH). Accenture can support all aspects of becoming and staying REACH compliant.

Sales and Marketing
We help our clients master customer relationships by building customer insight and translating it into profitable customer interactions. A high-performance chemical company not only understands how to gather and use data to develop valuable insight around its products and customers, but also how to use those insights to define and refine the products and services it provides, and to orient its interactions with customers to drive profitability. Our solutions can deliver significant, bottom-line profit improvements—up to a 10 percent increase in ROS.

Supply Chain Optimization
Advanced supply chain planning for key accounts and suppliers lets chemical companies respond faster to increasing customer demands, while lowering costs. Accenture works with chemical companies to plan and optimize operations while synchronizing with key customers and suppliers. This, in turn, gives our clients the ability to quickly re-plan and adapt to unexpected developments.