Accenture Plant and Commercial Services

Unleashing Value in Core Operations

Asset-intensive companies need to build and operate plants and assets in a reliable, safe and cost-effective manner. In recent years, this has become increasingly difficult due to issues such as:

• Aging assets—The heavy use of aging assets has brought the issue of asset reliability to the fore.
  
  
• Workforce trends—Global trends show that labor demand is outpacing supply of skilled workers.
  
  
• Complexity of capital projects—Due in part to global demand and the emergence of new technologies, companies are initiating capital projects in technically challenging environments.
  
  
• Environment, health and safety (EH&S)—Companies are being asked to incorporate more rigorous EH&S standards into the design and operation of manufacturing facilities.

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To help asset-intensive companies, we have developed the Accenture Plant and Commercial Services (formerly known as Accenture Plant and Automation Solutions). This vendor-us-en service addresses five key areas to help companies solve short-term problems and position themselves for high performance in the long term:

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

Accenture Plant and Commercial Services focus on five core areas:

Engineering, Project and Data Management
To help our clients better manage large capital-build programs, Accenture has developed a number of core services for engineering, project and data management. These include:

• Process and IT infrastructure to help companies create, modify, share and store information during the entire life cycle of a complex capital project—from licensing, design, procurement, construction, and commissioning through operations and maintenance.
  
  
• Project management to help clients evaluate and implement the project structure, governance and stage-gate management processes necessary to deliver llarge capital projects.
  
  
• Intermediary data services to provide staff to manage the data infrastructure as well as conduct data management activities including data acquisition, integration, cleansing, integrity, and contract compliance.

In addition, Accenture brings its management consulting skills including strategy, planning, supply chain management, and enterprise solutions— to complement these core services.

Core Operations
Accenture’s core operations offering helps companies operate and maintain their plant and asset investments in an efficient and effective manner. Our services consist of solutions to:

• Optimize plant maintenance and reliability—Support improvements in the efficiency of the maintenance process.
  
  
• Optimize production—Increase product yield, improve safety and achieve operations excellence.
  
  
• Optimize the supply chain—Achieve the highest margin in most dynamic market conditions by optimizing operations across the supply chain.

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Environment, Health and Safety
Accenture collaborates with asset-intensive companies to address environment, health and safety concerns:

• Develop a comprehensive health function.
  
  
• Address the full range of occupational-health, industrial-hygiene and incident-management activities.
  
  
• Create green supply chains and sustainable procurement processes.
  
  
• Deliver business value such as increased revenue, improved costs and lower risk.

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Enabling Services
Our enabling services help our clients by providing long-term support services, such as outsourcing, so that they can focus on differentiating, value-driven core activities. Enabling services includes: 

• Investment and Construction Support Services. These are relevant services for clients making new capital expenditure or renewal investments–both greenfield and brownfield. Examples of this type of work include: project management office support services, licensing, document management for handover/commissioning, and support services for consortium management.
  
  
• Operational Support Services. These services are relevant to plant day-to-day operations. They encompass services including supply chain operations support, analytics, asset management, plant maintenance, life safety, as well as more traditional back office-type services like finance and accounting, learning, procurement and human resources. 
  
  
• IT and Data Management Services.  These services focus on four areas:
  • IT application and infrastructure outsourcing. 
  • Data quality services, including profiling and cleansing.
  • Basic data maintenance services, including master data management.
  • Advanced data enrichment services to support asset register or product lifecycle management  solutions for the full lifecycle of data.

Industrial Automation Capability
Accenture’s industrial automation capability can help companies achieve plant-to-business integration. As new technologies are introduced and the population ages, many companies have a challenge with knowledge retention and developing new ways of cooperating across physical boundaries.

Our solutions connect and synchronize the shop floor and the C-suite—helping companies turn production data into useful information through an integrated application of technology in operations.

• Automation technology—Instrumentation, power, control and supervisory systems.
  
  
• Production management—Manufacturing execution systems, production information management systems and plant-to-business systems integration.
  
  
• Process optimization—Control loop management, brownfield optimization and revitalization, and overall equipment effectiveness.
  
  

Learn more about unleashing value at the core. Read the brochure. [PDF, 906KB]
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Learn more about integrating the plant floor with the overall enterprise for high performance. Read the brochure. [PDF, 196KB]
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