Business Process Outsourcing for the Consumer Goods and Services Industry

Accenture research shows that leading companies in many industries are using outsourcing to improve business processes and augment the resources available to them. They also use outsourcing partners to achieve upward and downward scalability and move from a fixed to a variable pricing model.

Accenture is dedicated to using advanced outsourcing capabilities and services to help our consumer goods and services companies become high-performance businesses—organizations that consistently exceed their peers by quantifiable standards, outperforming them across economic cycles as well as new generations of leadership. Accenture works with you to develop and deliver business process innovations through outsourcing services that transform your organization to deliver higher value at lower costs.

Accenture helps consumer goods and services companies use outsourcing to transform existing business operations making them faster, smarter and cheaper, thereby increasing efficiency and enhancing your ability to achieve true competitive differentiation. We combine business consultants and technology professionals to provide business process outsourcing that truly delivers high performance. Several factors combine to make Accenture the ideal outsourcing partner for consumer goods and services companies:

• Process Experience—Our decades of experience in optimizing business processes across many industries can help you simplify business operations for greater effectiveness.
  
  
• Technological Excellence—The capabilities enabling high performance are increasingly enabled by technology. From innovation to what works, we have the global capability to manage technology cost-effectively at higher service levels.
  
  
• Deep Industry Insight—We have been working in the consumer goods and services industry for decades and have a track record of helping clients in this industry around the world achieve high performance.
  
  
• Business Acumen—Our ongoing High Performance Business research ensures that we have a scientific understanding of the capabilities, market position and performance anatomy that enable sustainable, successful performance. With our vast pool of business talent, we can better help companies innovate intelligently to create competitive advantage.
  
  
• Global Reach—Accenture's presence in many countries around the world means we can leverage local insight like no other company and the Accenture Global Delivery Network provides consumer goods and services companies with access to proven outsourcing methods, leading-edge tools and platform-specific architectures, adding scalability, flexibility and cost efficiencies to their business processes.

Accenture can help you improve many of your business processes—while reducing costs—through outsourcing. We offer:

• Finance and Accounting BPO
  We provide core finance processes such as order-to-cash, procure-to-pay and record-to-report, but we also focus on driving high performance for your company through value-focused services such as profit recovery and analytics. Accenture works closely with you to unleash value by optimizing payment terms, improving working capital, tightening operating controls, enhancing compliance and improving the bottom line.
  
  
• HR BPO 
  Accenture provides human resources services on an outsourced basis, with offerings covering the entire employee life cycle—recruitment, performance and progression management, and compensation services. Employing leading technologies and best-in-class HR practices throughout our global delivery network, Accenture works to transform the way HR services are delivered to your employees, supporting your drive to become high-performance businesses.
  
  
• Learning BPO 
  Accenture works with your company to leverage learning, knowledge sharing, collaboration and other workforce enablement tools and strategies to meet your organization's most critical business challenges and capitalize on its most promising opportunities. Accenture redefines your organization's strategic sourcing model for learning with a full range of integrated learning services, innovative assets, deep industry experience and global delivery capabilities.
  
  
• Procurement BPO
  Accenture helps drive toward high performance through your procurement function by delivering spend savings, reducing risk and implementing performance improvement and innovation. Providing a complete source-to-pay business process outsourcing solution, Accenture enables you to reduce the overall cost of acquiring third-party goods and services and to improve bottom line. Accenture works with you to establish and develop good vendor relationships and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of all procurement-related activities.