Tuesday, October 07, 2008
Products & Services
The Accenture Sourcing & Procurement Practice provides clients with access to specialized skills in Procurement with the emphasis on viewing all of the functional areas as parts of the overall supply chain:
Sourcing & Category Management:
- Achieve reduction in external spend with better sourcing strategies
- Build and enhance current sourcing group capability
- Provide tools (e.g. Emptoris, data cube) to support future sourcing activities
- Via global sourcing, provide access to specific geographic supply markets
Workforce Transformation
- Provide operating model design
- Recommend organization structure / staffing requirements / skills and training
- Provide continuous learning platforms (Supply Chain Academy)
Process & Technology enablement
- Provide scorecards, KPIs and business intelligence templates
- Redesign key procurement processes
- Install enabling eSourcing and transaction (P2P) technology solutions
Supplier Relationship Management
- Provide practices and solutions that maximize procurement value by creating actionable, corporate-wide visibility of supplier & material activity
- Build supplier collaboration & transaction execution framework
- Provide supplier performance monitoring toolsets
- Integrate suppliers in Product Development/Design and Supply Chain Planning capabilities
Outsourcing
- Accelerate speed to sourcing results
- Built in compliance sustains strategic sourcing spend reduction over time
- Provides continuous access to best practices and market knowledge over time
- Ensure accountability for latest procurement innovations
- Avoid capital investment
- Cost effective transaction processing

