Supply Chain Academy: Services Overview

Accenture Supply Chain Academy offers engaging, online learning experiences that help companies advance the skills, capabilities and productivity of the workforce, drive improved supply chain execution with pace and speed, and create more agile operations.

Supply chain excellence as a driver of high performance. Across most industries, technology change and marketplace volatility have focused renewed attention on the performance of the supply chain as a critical lever of competitive advantage. According to Accenture research, one of the top imperatives for achieving supply chain excellence is putting in place the right talent and culture to drive effective process execution. Yet most organizations find it challenging to deliver timely, relevant and cost-effective training to their supply chain workforce.

An innovative, proven approach to developing a differentiated supply chain workforce. Accenture Supply Chain Academy delivers rich and relevant content designed to improve essential supply chain skills. The Academy is available through an innovative, flexible and scalable delivery platform. With a competency-based curriculum, learning is always tailored to real performance needs, and is continuously updated based on experience and insights from supply chain specialists around the globe. Organizations can leverage our core, industrialized Supply Chain Academy, or Accenture can customize a curriculum to specific needs, goals and environments.

Proven solution, measurable results. Already in use by more than 100 clients, Accenture Supply Chain Academy serves 57,000 people in 140 countries. And we help our clients achieve measurable improvements in business performance. For example, through its use of Accenture Supply Chain Academy, SAB Miller is improving its supply chain capabilities. According to Jaime Ochoa, SABMiller’s director of supply chain for Latin America, “We are using the Supply Chain Academy to identify specific maturity gaps, fill them with tailored content, and measure the impact of that training on the business. The Supply Chain Academy is helping us ensure that learning benefits the company in tangible ways.”

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Accenture is an acknowledged innovator in enterprise learning, with business, industry, training and technology skills unmatched in the marketplace.

Accenture is an industry leader in delivering advanced learning solutions that are scalable and flexible, harnessing innovative technologies and learning designs in a way that is also standardized and cost-effective. Accenture Supply Chain Academy provides an interactive, highly engaging and blended learning environment, including online self-study courses, live webinars, case-based learning, simulations and extensive online resources.

Our supply chain management consulting practice—with more than 15,000 professionals working with clients across every industry—combines global capabilities in supply chain strategy, sourcing and procurement, supply chain planning, manufacturing and design, fulfillment, and service management to help our clients transform their supply chain capabilities. Accenture is also a pioneer in supply chain management outsourcing, helping our clients with the ongoing management and optimization of their supply chain to improve performance, drive efficiencies and reduce costs.

Here’s what makes Accenture Supply Chain Academy distinctive in the marketplace:

• Relevant and competency-based. Accenture Supply Chain Academy delivers courses tightly aligned with functional- and industry-based competency models and job frameworks so that learning is tailored to real and relevant performance needs.

• Outcome driven. Accenture Supply Chain Academy is designed to help our clients achieve measurable business outcomes through more effective and efficient supply chain operations. Our learning professionals keep course content aligned with changing strategies and business goals.

• Informed by supply chain specialists. Academic and industry supply chain specialists from around the world have contributed their ideas, leading practices and knowledge in supply chain operations and strategy to our curriculum, and we are continuously refreshing content with new insights and experiences.

• Anytime access to learning. Our extensive online learning curriculum is available on demand, 24/7—offering flexible access to learning for our clients around the globe.

• Customized, industrialized, scalable, flexible. By combining our industrialized delivery platform with customizable learning approaches, our clients can take advantage of learning solutions that are both more efficient and more effective. The flexible architecture enables our clients to adapt the platform to their specific needs.

Accenture Supply Chain Academy offers a comprehensive curriculum designed to develop a consistent foundation of market-leading supply chain skills across the workforce, with rigor and certainty. With hundreds of courses, the curriculum covers supply chain foundational concepts and skills, leadership development, and extensive offerings across major supply chain functions and capabilities including:

• Supply chain planning
• Product development
• Procurement and sourcing
• Manufacturing
• Transportation
• Warehousing
• Service management
• Inventory management
• Strategic customer management

Accenture Supply Chain Academy supports industry certifications provided by leading academic and professional societies, including the Association for Operations Management (APICS), the Voluntary Interindustry Commerce Solutions (VICS) Association, the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply (CIPS).

What our clients say about us:
“When we compared the available training resources, nothing came close to the value offered by the Supply Chain Academy. We knew Accenture would provide our people with a very broad range of content, all of which would reflect global best practices and would be available on a convenient and flexible basis.”
Jaime Ochoa, director of supply chain for Latin America, SABMiller

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