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The state of supply chains during COVID-19

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Design your intelligent supply chain with purpose

Supply chains today are under pressure like never before. They need to meet more complex demands from customers and the business. They need to adapt to the global disruption caused by COVID-19. And they need to be responsible and responsive to outmaneuver uncertainly in a world that brings fresh challenges and opportunities every day.

The solution? To create a customer-focused supply chain that operates faster, with more agility. To boost efficiency through zero-based optimization. To fuel future growth through greater resilience, sustainability, transparency and trust. And to enable people to work differently and better through the transformative power of data and digital technologies.

That’s what we call the intelligent supply chain: an engine of growth through new customer experiences, a driver of profitability in challenging economic times, and a responsible source of stakeholder trust in the post-COVID world enabling competitiveness.

Intelligent Supply Chain and Operations | Accenture

The intelligent supply chain is an engine of growth through new customer experiences and a driver of profitability in challenging economic times. See more.

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Adapting to outmaneuver uncertainty

Purpose-led intelligent supply chains help Chief Supply Chain Officers continuously innovate, build competitive advantage, and improve business, customer, and societal outcomes in an ever-changing, ever-challenging world.

Create true customer-centricity

Future competitive advantage and growth rests on supply chains that can deliver innovative and hyper-personalized products, services and experiences.

Fuel growth through profitability

Zero-based spending helps CSCOs manage variability, enhance performance, unlock value and fund future-facing investments that transform the business.

Move faster, with agility

Human+machine supply chains are designed for speed, agility, flexibility, end-to-end visibility, customer-centricity, and ecosystem collaboration.

Do good for society and the planet

Responsible, sustainable and transparent supply chains increase brand value and build crucial trust with customers, partners and societies.

Reduce risk, increase security, build resilience

Secure, resilient and responsive supply chains help a business anticipate disruptions, respond quickly, and identify ways to reshape for the future.

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How we make it happen

We bring together applied intelligence and advanced digital expertise in a way that puts people first. Combined with our global innovation capabilities and key partnerships, we help make supply chains work better, faster, and with more resilience.

Customer-centric supply chain transformation

Develop a segmentation strategy and platform-oriented operating model complemented with a "living" tech architecture and ecosystem partnerships. Read more.

Integrated spend management

Use zero-based spend to improve visibility, enhance control, transform procurement, and release funds for new investments enabled by leading procurement and finance technology.

Zero-based supply chain

Use zero-based supply chain to target value, manage design costs more effectively, and transform supply chain analytics.

Sustainable and responsible supply chain

Increase trust with customers and suppliers through transparency and responsibility, target net zero emissions, and embrace the circular supply chain.

Operational agility transformation

Use prime value chain analytics to increase transparency, bridge silos, turn complexity to your advantage and reshape operations around customer value.

Resilient supply chain

Adapt to the post-COVID reality by stress testing supply chain resilience, improving responsiveness, and outmaneuvering uncertainty more effectively. Read more.

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Capabilities

Supply chain strategy

Devise an intelligent, customer-centered, zero-based, responsible and resilient supply chain strategy.

Talent, organization and human potential

Unlock your human potential and restructure the organization and its culture to support growth.

Industry X

Reimagine the way products, services and experiences get designed and built in the age of digital disruption.

Supply chain managed services

Run, scale, and optimize supply chains that adapt to customer expectations and business opportunities.

Applied Intelligence

Deliver data-driven insights across the supply chain, using AI and automation to transform decision-making.

Transformation with modern technology

Transform your supply chain into an enabler of profitable growth, with a digital core and advanced platforms.

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What we think

Securing the supply chain

Supply Chain & Operations

Securing the supply chain

In today’s hyper-connected world, supply chain security is a growing issue that’s rising on the C-suite agenda.

The race for digital operations transformations

The race for digital operations transformations

Accenture study explains: What is the status of the digital transformation of end-to-end manufacturing operations?

Demand driven MRP: Benefits of flow

Demand driven MRP: Benefits of flow

Supply chains must be encoded with a DNA based on flow, where the rate of supply is aligned to the rate of demand.

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Customer-centric supply chains

Cloud ascent

Supply Chain & Operations

Sharpen up the supply chain with SAP

Supply Chain & Operations

Digital platform, springboard for growth

Supply Chain & Operations

Supply chain ecosystems

Aerospace and Defense

Defend against uncertainty

Case studies

COVID-19: Coordinating UK medical ventilator production

COVID-19: Coordinating UK medical ventilator production

We worked with Rolls-Royce as part of the VentilatorChallengeUK Consortium.

Merck KGaA puts digital at the heart of healthcare

Merck KGaA puts digital at the heart of healthcare

A new SAP S/4 HANA ERP solution ushers Merck KGaA Healthcare into a digital future.

Intelligent supply chain boosts productivity

Supply Chain BPS

Intelligent supply chain boosts productivity

Accenture's SynOps for Supply Chain helped a global healthcare technology company reimagine its supply chain.

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Business functions supply chain and operations blog

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Reinvent and create agile supply chains that power enterprise value across a range of industries and markets.

Industry X

Win the race for digital operations transformation

Accenture's blog explains what manufacturing capabilities, investment requirements, and key enablers will look like to be successful.

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Overcome black swans with a resilient supply chain

Learn how the economic impact of COVID-19 can be mitigated with zero-based supply chain.

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Supply/Demand planning doesn't have to be so hard

Learn how using a data-driven approach with advanced analytics and AI can help determine the best way forward for your supply chain.

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