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Enabling operational excellence in the retail supply chain: How Accenture’s Inventory Planning and Replenishment Services can enable high performance.
More and more retailers are seeking help from third-party providers to tackle the turnover, talent, training and technology challenges that afflict their supply chain management functions. These retailers know that cost control is no longer enough. They need to boost supply chain performance overall. And outsourcing skills and capabilities like replenishment management and forecasting can deliver significant performance benefits, as well as driving cost efficiencies.
Accenture’s Inventory Planning and Replenishment Services (IPRS) are designed to deliver the benefits of supply chain outsourcing—without jeopardizing a client's control over existing programs, or comprising a client’s ongoing connection to day-to-day business activities.
IPRS offers forecasting and inventory planning, replenishment and purchase order management and the application maintenance, analytics and performance reporting required to support these services. Regardless of the services selected, Accenture will analyze all processes and work with clients to develop an integrated operating model with an appropriate division of labor.
Accenture is uniquely qualified to help clients drive supply chain performance. We have:
The experience:
The people:
The tools:
By leveraging the components and resources of IPRS, retailers can cut inventory levels and carrying costs, shorten time to value, improve planning performance, sharpen their focus on core competencies and gain access to skills at lower cost.
Contact us to find out more about how Accenture’s Inventory Planning and Replenishment Services can help you achieve high performance in the retail industry.
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