Inventory Planning and Replenishment Services for the Retail Industry

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 is multi-dimensional: Clients can pick and choose the particular services they need—and remain in charge of their core functions.
  
  
• IPRS is collaborative: Working with clients, Accenture will contractually commit to achieving agreed savings targets in a shared risk and reward structure.

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:

• A successful track record of supply chain improvement engagements across different industries, including retail.
  
  
• Unparalleled experience in business process outsourcing.
  
  
• Research-based knowledge-leveraging proprietary research—across 36 industry segments and more than 6,000 companies, including 500 high performers—into the defining characteristics of high-performance businesses.

The people:

• A highly educated, highly skilled offshore workforce trained to execute the standardized, repeatable processes that characterize our own internal systems to drive improved performance for you.
  
  
• Supply chain experts from our consulting group who are always available to identify and implement improvements.

The tools:

• The Accenture Global Delivery Network
  
  
  
  • BPO Global Delivery Centers
    
    
• Forecast & Replenishment Optimization Offering
  
  
  
  • Standard methodology, process and tools that drive solution optimization
    
    
• The Accenture Supply Chain Academy
  
  
• The Accenture Business Process Repository

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.