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High performance through procurement: Accenture research and insights into procurement performance mastery
This report is part of an ongoing series of cross-industry studies in supply chain management. Its mission (consistent with previous Accenture reports focused on sourcing and procurement) is to tally, chart and analyze the responses of executives from companies around the world—senior decision makers whose principal roles involve procurement specifically, or procurement as a key subset of broader supply chain management responsibilities.
19:15, 21 May, 2007
Bridging the gap: Achieving high performance in product portfolio management
Accenture defines product portfolio management as “correctly understanding the market’s current and future demand and allocating a company’s resources to achieve optimal product offerings.” This report is part of Accenture’s ongoing series of international cross-industry surveys in supply chain management.
19:15, 21 May, 2007
Wireless companies’ handset service dilemma - Satisfy customers or rein in costs?
In a hypercompetitive market, wireless companies know that any unsatisfactory handset experience can result in the loss of a customer.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Transforming professionals and supply chains to help organizations achieve high performance
This Australian point of view looks at how the Supply Chain Academy's courses integrate the "best of the best" supply chain ideas and content from functional, industry and academic experts, and leverage Accenture's experience in identifying successful supply chain practices and building high-performance businesses.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
The role of RFID in supply chain planning
Accenture explores how RFID can help companies across industries to improve information visibility, accuracy and timeliness. These improvements are critical to successful supply chain planning and can enable organizations to become more efficient, respond more quickly to changing market conditions and ultimately achieve high performance.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
The case for product life cycle management
With more demanding customers and increasing global competition, companies struggle to introduce products to market more quickly while countering low new-product success rates. These challenges point to a growing need for technologies and processes that leverage product life cycle management (PLM).
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Steaming ahead with manufacturing innovation
History has shown that pivotal moments of innovation have dramatically transformed manufacturing. To survive in such an environment, companies need to stoke their innovation engine.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Radio Frequency Identification for consumer technology companies
Mandates from major electronics retailers are converging to accelerate the proliferation of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology throughout the consumer technology industry, perhaps faster than any previous technology of its kind.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Public or Private Sector: Maximising fleet effectiveness to achieve high performance
Whether you are the U.S. Postal Service, a major city or state agency, a public utility or a construction company, effectively and efficiently managing your heavy vehicles and equipment fleet can drive substantial cost savings and service improvement for your business.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Moving East: Offshoring operations to achieve global high performance
More European companies are thinking about moving some or all operations to low-cost countries as part of their strategy to achieve high performance. Accenture suggests that these companies should embrace five strategic shifts that can help ensure a successful move offshore.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Materials standardisation: How to make the transformation from ad hoc activities to high performance
As utilities look to drive additional value from their supply chains, they are realising a significant opportunity exists to gain substantial value and move toward high performance by more proactively managing the number and commercial content of their material specifications.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Is your supply chain ready to enable profitable growth and high performance?
With growth back on the executive agenda, leading organizations are reorienting their supply chains to help them capitalize on revenue-generating opportunities. Accenture explores how market leaders are building supply chains that are information-rich, highly flexible and built around customer needs.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
High performance radio frequency identification - compliance and beyond
Accenture is helping companies in industries like retail, consumer goods, and pharmaceuticals determine how they could respond to radio frequency identification (RFID) and electronic product codes (EPC). To that end, we’ve developed the Accenture RFID/EPC Strategy Matrix that places companies in one of four positions: “watch and learn,” “comply,” “adopt early,” and “maximise.”
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Going global: Transforming global operations to achieve high performance
As markets globalize and supply chains lengthen, the efficiency of a company's global operations becomes crucial to gaining competitive advantage. Accenture reveals five key capabilities to promote excellence in global operations and so achieve high performance.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Global sourcing drives high performance: The emerging role of International Procurement Organizations
It shows a one-page overview of our Sourcing and Procurement domain services and capabilities. The back page profiles a Volvo case study, and includes contact information and our Accenture and Supply Chain Management boilerplate paragraphs.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Global networks achieving high performance through flexible and frequent supply chain network design
As more organizations combine and extend their operations, engage in global sourcing and leverage advanced network design software, savvy executives are revisiting and redesigning their distribution networks more frequently than ever. This point of view explores how business changes of any sort should automatically bring with them a call for supply chain network assessments and optimizations.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Gartner: Magic quadrant for North American SCM consulting and integration service providers, 2006
The scope of the Magic Quadrant covers ESPs that provide consulting and systems integration (SI) capabilities, primarily in supply chain planning, execution and sourcing. The report examines the service provider landscape for the market segment defined by enterprise buyers implementing supply chain planning, execution and sourcing. The focus is on the ability to provide strategy or operational consulting, as well as implementation services for major SCM packages.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Enabling high performance in utilities through supply chain management
Supply chain best practices associated with demand planning, work management and material segmentation offer significant advantages in helping utilities achieve high performance.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Enabling high performance in banking by outsourcing procurement
In this point of view, Accenture authors James Astorian, Richard Grassel and John Weisel explore the procurement challenges in the banking industry. They also discuss how outsourcing can help banks substantially reduce their spending on goods and services and also reduce procurement operations costs, without having to make large investments.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Driving profitable service management
The main original equipment manufacturers in the medical sector have until recently been technology-led, with service an afterthought. Now, new challenges have revealed that good service management presents a clear opportunity for generating profitable revenue, and thereby helping these companies achieve high performance.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Achieving high performance through capabilities: What’s required to dominate in the service business
This point of view, Accenture author Robert A. Jacoby discusses how service executives who can successfully implement innovative service capabilities will be able to help their companies retain customers, increase their margins and achieve higher levels of performance
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Achieving high performance in the utilities industry by outsourcing procurement
In this point of view, Accenture authors Dana Hanson and Erik Olson discuss the procurement challenges facing utility companies and the advantages of outsourcing these functions. With limited options to generate more revenue through higher prices, utilities are forced to be even more resolute in wringing costs from their operations and maintenance activities to achieve high performance.
12:00, 22 Feb, 2007
Transforming procurement for high performance in automotive
In the automotive industry, procurement is a critical business function as it directly impacts all the key success factors of product development speed, high product quality and low cost.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
The ultimate profit opportunity: Joint supply, demand and pricing optimization
As the gap between the high performers and the rest of the pack continues to widen, those companies that adopt joint supply, demand and pricing optimization can reorient their supply chains to achieve profitable growth and move ahead on the path to high performance.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
The secrets of successful low-cost country sourcing
For many industries, the proportion of overall procurement needs sourced from low-cost countries will double within five years. But it’s a complex technique, demanding great flexibility and a careful balancing of often competing interests within a company. Here are some successful strategies.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Supply chain management process: Supply chain strategy solutions from Accenture
Supply chain strategy excellence clearly has the potential to drive—not just influence—business performance. But most supply chain managers still see “greater efficiency” as their principal mission.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Supply chain global networks - Achieving high performance through flexible and frequent supply chain network design
As more organizations combine and extend their operations, engage in global sourcing, and leverage advanced network design software, savvy executives are revisiting and redesigning their distribution networks more frequently than ever.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Succeeding in a new world – Achieving high performance with global supply chain service and support solutions
What does a major Aerospace & Defense (A&D) company do when its customers want more - more support for products, more value for investment dollars, more product availability? That's just what the United States Department of Defense 2006 QDR calls for, as does the UK Defence Industrial Strategy (DIS). Both policy statements signal nothing less than a boundary shift between the domains of industry and government.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Strategies for Implementing a Low Cost Consumer Supply Chain
How can companies reduce supply chain costs without undermining product and service quality? One solution is to think—and act—more holistically with respect to the drivers of supply chain value.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Procurement optimisation: Achieving high performance across Europe
This brochure provides an overview of Accenture’s procurement offerings in Europe, with a focus on Accenture Procurement Transformation, Accenture Procurement Solutions, and procurement case studies.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Pricing parts for profit
Often treated as an afterthought, pricing is one of the most powerful ways a company can improve its performance. A precision pricing methodology—one that assists with the formulation of prices based on what the market is willing to pay, and incorporates an integrated approach across a product's pricing life cycle—can help companies increase profits, outperform competitors, and achieve and sustain.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
High performance: Ensuring global freight security
Despite their potential effectiveness, emerging global security policies have real potential to further constrain the operations and resulting profitability of many organizations.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
High performance through sourcing: Leveraging a supply management platform for low-cost country sourcing
Sourcing from low-cost economies is an established fact. However, how to best leverage the opportunities it offers remains obscure. While many companies have shown that they can successfully source from low-cost economies on a category-by-category basis, far fewer have institutionalized their overseas sourcing to the point where it becomes routine and "business as usual."
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
From regular to premium: Innovative strategies to improve fleet service and achieve high performance
Government entities are under tremendous pressure to manage their fleets more effectively, but with identical or fewer resources and dollars. This point of view is part of Accenture's Innovation Unbound research series, which explores breakthrough strategies that are enabling governments to achieve high performance and deliver real value to their citizens.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Enabling high performance through supply chain management: Sourcing & Procurement
It shows a one-page overview of our Sourcing and Procurement domain services and capabilities. The back page profiles a Volvo case study, and includes contact information and our Accenture and Supply Chain Management boilerplate paragraphs.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Enabling high performance through supply chain management: Service Management
The contribution is a two-page overview PDF: Enabling high performance through Supply Chain Manangement - Service Management.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Enabling high performance through supply chain management: Fulfillment
The contribution is a two-page overview PDF: Enabling high performance through Supply Chain Manangement - Fulfillment.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Defense industrial strategy: Catalyst for the high performance supply chain
The Defense Industrial Strategy signals a boundary shift between the domains of industry and government as contractors provide the Ministry of Defense with a rapidly expanding portfolio of services. To stake their claim in this growth market, contractors are adopting unfamiliar roles and tackling supply chain complexity that far exceeds that of traditional manufacturing operations.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
At Air Products, supply chain education drives high performance
Headquartered in Allentown, PA, Air Products provides atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials and chemical intermediates to technology, energy, healthcare and electronics markets around the world. The company has annual revenue of $8.1 billion, operations in more than 30 countries, and more than 20,000 employees. About 50 percent of its sales are outside the United States.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Achieving high performance through radio frequency identification in aerospace and defense
The companies likely to derive the most value from RFID are those willing to adopt early and develop new business capabilities that lower costs, improve quality and achieve new levels of customer service. These companies are also committed to working collaboratively with their suppliers, partners and customers to help drive the new technology across the supply chain to achieve an even greater value share.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
Accenture profiles high performance supply chain capabilities for high tech, media and communications industries
The importance of supply chain management to business results is nowhere more pronounced than among high tech, communications and media companies. This brochure was developed to highlight Accenture's supply chain capabilities across the CHT industries.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
A new supply chain trend for wireless carriers: Profiting in a changing market through lessons learned from the retail industry
"Profiting in a changing market through lessons learned from the retail industry."
In a hypercompetitive—yet saturated—market, proliferating product lines reflect
customer demands for handsets that don't just work, but make a lifestyle-defining statement.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
3PL opportunities
Consolidation in the European 3PL market has big implications. By Jonathan Wright and Bruce Cornfoot.
12:00, 21 Feb, 2007
