Accenture High Performance Business research has shown that high performance is typically linked to supply chain excellence, especially in today’s economy. That excellence is hard to achieve because today's supply chains are complex, especially for global enterprises with multiple operating companies.

In particular, many companies lag when it comes to their forecast and demand management capabilities. As a result, they have excess inventory leading to excessive costs, and their service levels are lower than desired. They also suffer from an inability to adapt quickly enough to changes in supply chain demand, and from poorly defined and inconsistent processes.

Forward-thinking companies are increasingly turning to outsourcing to improve the performance and cost management of their supply chains by outsourcing specific supply chain management operations to Accenture. We help these companies to prepare for the new economic realities by enabling them to respond to near-term cost pressures, while adopting intelligent long-term approaches that support the entire business far into the future.

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With more than 20 years of experience in both IT and business process outsourcing, and holding a market-leading position as an innovator and leader in supply chain consulting, Accenture is one of the pioneers of supply chain management outsourcing. Accenture provides important capabilities that are the driving force behind the success of supply chain management outsourcing:

• Ability to take on core supply chain management competencies.
• Single point of accountability.
• Rigorous staff selection, on-boarding and training.
  
  

Accenture has formed groundbreaking contracts at industry-leading companies in sectors such as petroleum, high technology and retailing, Accenture now helps to manage and operate supply chain management functions for approximately 20 world-class companies and organizations. Benefits delivered include:

• Increased product availability by 13 percent to 93 percent for a high-tech retailer—while achieving a $36 million improvement in working capital.
  
  
• Reduced supply chain costs of 25 percent (or almost $4 billion) for a leading Japanese high-tech manufacturer—while simultaneously reducing stockouts from 9.4 percent to 2.1 percent. Contact us to find out how outsourcing supply chain processes to Accenture can help you save costs, improve operations and position your company for high performance.

Accenture offers a comprehensive range of outsourcing services across all dimensions of a company's supply chain, including:

• Demand Management
• Supply Management
• Transportation Management
• Materials Management
• Production Management
• Green Supply Chain
• Financial Supply Chain

Accenture Supply Chain BPO Services can also be seamlessly bundled with Accenture Procurement BPO Services and Supply Chain application hosting to provide an end-to-end supply chain service, helping clients gain a high degree of control over spending and achieve deep sourcing savings.

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