Accenture Global Manufacturing Business Solution for Industrial Equipment

Leading companies in the industrial equipment sector generate more than half of their revenues outside their home countries, yet manage to handle operations using half the working capital of their peers. They earn nearly five points more margin than peers and return six more points on invested capital, generating much more value for shareholders.

One underlying factor that contributes to this sterling level of performance: operational excellence and lean processes that help optimize assets and swiftly integrate acquisitions. Another important factor: the ability to create an organizational structure that promotes customer retention.

To help our clients gain high-performance operations, we developed the Accenture Global Manufacturing Business Solution. Our solution brings together SAP and enabling technologies and joins them with leading business processes and models. The end result: a low cost, flexible operating model that scales rapidly and efficiently to meet the changing demands of markets and customers in the industrial equipment marketplace.

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The complexity surrounding the implementation of new enterprise-wide systems is daunting to most companies and requires sophisticated project management to ensure that real organizational change is realized as a result of technology change. Our approach involves modular solutions that are then fit to the specific processes based on customer need, driven by a team of experts. This reduces the need for customization significantly—minimizes cost and speeds implementation.

By leveraging industry-leading practices in combination with an SAP solution, Accenture can help clients successfully integrate the key capabilities of a high-performance business strategy at state-of-the-art run cost. Accenture’s approach aligns business strategy and vision with organization, processes and applications.

Key components of the Accenture Global Manufacturing Business Solution include:

• Value targeting and business case materials, including modeling tools and templates.
  
  
• Industry-leading practices and process detail, including a repository with industrial-leading practices and a process model that encompasses make-to-stock to engineer-to-order industrial companies.
  
  
• SAP solutions, including a comprehensive list of over 2000 industrial requirements along with corresponding SAP solutions.
  
  
• A detailed execution guide providing step-by-step instructions for how to execute a blueprint and implementation phases.
  
  
• Pre-delivered content that represents all deliverables for a typical implementation, including designs and position papers on key business process decisions for both ERP and CRM.