L’Oréal Italy teamed with Accenture to transform order-to-cash processes across its Consumer Products, Luxury, Active Cosmetics and Professional Products divisions. To kick off the strategic program, we helped the team develop clearer strategic guidelines across divisions and support customer collaboration. At the same time, we assessed order-to-cash processes across divisions, identifying pain points such as uncoordinated cross-functional communication workflows and disconnected processes for approving customer orders. To enrich our insights, we also used a process mining tool.
We created a new customer segmentation framework that aligned divisions across key retailer interaction areas, such as commercial, demand generation, supply chain collaboration, and customer administration and communications. We combined information like credit disputes, shipping points and payments, for instance, to create a holistic view of the retail customer. This enables L’Oréal Italy to better understand and coherently categorize its loyal and priority retail customers.
The new customer framework provides a view into each division, as well as across divisions, and serves as the foundation for process harmonization. The framework was helpful to identify areas of process improvement and interventions across divisions. The team also identified opportunities where innovative new technologies like robotic process automation (RPA), descriptive and predictive analytics, AI, and machine learning could enhance efficiency and mitigate risk.
