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Break through value for sourcing & procurement

Make procurement your value powerhouse by creating a digital procurement organization that drives growth while getting the basics right.

HOW TO BE READY FOR THE UNEXPECTED

Aon’s CPO discusses the future of procurement

The impact of change on sourcing & procurement​

We help leaders across Finance, Supply Chain and Procurement turn procurement from an untapped strategic asset into a source of competitive advantage.

Deliver durable cost savings

Achieve cost savings across pricing, consumption and inventory while identifying new opportunities to reinvest these savings across the business.

  • 10-15% sourcing savings across direct and indirect spend
  • 15+% SG&A Reduction
  • 3-5% COGS Reduction

Improve compliance and mitigate risk

Protect the enterprise by working with qualified, responsible suppliers and make the experience with procurement easy, so people want to do it.

  • Reduce risk of non-compliance
  • Reduce cost & reputational risk due to poor quality
  • Spend optimization of 0.5%-3%

Make better business decisions

Go beyond managing spend to unleashing real-time insights and intelligence to make more informed decisions and connect all enterprise functions—multiplying value while lowering risk.​

  • Scale vision by combining intelligent technologies and procurement talent
  • Centralize procurement process, tools and systems
  • Tap into advanced technologies, such as AI

Build a responsible future

Thread sustainability into procurement activities—ensuring a responsible supply chain, designing for circularity and supporting net-zero operations—in line with cost and business needs.

  • Responsible sourcing practices
  • Drive resource efficient business models & ecosystems and achieve carbon neutral products, production & supply chains

Inspire the workforce

Give your people the tools, skills and confidence they need to excel in their jobs today and prepare their place in the workforce of the future.

  • Increased effectiveness of the team by leveraging market intelligence for decision making
  • Up to 40% in productivity
  • Right resource is tapped for the right task

Be ready for what’s next

Use end-to-end visibility of data insights to develop and deliver your long-term vision for procurement, continually innovating across people, process and technology to stay ahead of change.

  • >93% spend managed on average
  • Organizational agility to adapt and respond well to changing demands
  • Trust based supplier ecosystems

Services that power change

We work with clients to design intelligent, digital source-to-pay solutions across direct and indirect spend. Our sourcing & procurement solution is powered by SynOps.

Source-to-pay

Jumpstart your transformation by reshaping procurement end-to-end.

Source-to-contract

Maximize negotiated savings and value by optimizing category strategy, sourcing and contracting.

Procure-to-pay

Gain more control, minimize risk, capture savings, and increase efficiency by automating rec-to-order and invoice-to-pay.

Rapid sourcing

Realize savings quickly by tapping into our sourcing center of excellence.

Tapping into procurement to unlock new value

Companies must grow in an environmentally sustainable and responsible way in an uncertain economy where shareholder, employee and customer expectations are shifting fast. The ripple effect of financial and operational impacts is creating an imperative—and an opportunity—to reset how things are done across the business to increase resilience. And sourcing & procurement is no exception.

That’s why we help you embrace change and break free from the status quo, making procurement your value powerhouse by moving to an intelligent operating model, which we call closed loop spend management (CLSM).

CLSM uses SynOps to drive end-to-end transformation across indirect and direct spend to achieve breakthrough value, while enabling talent with new ways of working through the power of data, digital and AI.

A truly digital procurement organization enables topline growth while getting the basics right: delivering sustainable savings, reducing risk and supporting business growth.

SynOps for procurement

Case studies

Energy company captures $240M in cost savings

Energy company captures $240M in cost savings

A multinational energy manufacturer transforms procurement sourcing and spend.

Snack giant unlocks savings to fuel growth

A multinational food and beverage company reinvents order to cash and source-to-pay.
Data-driven operations improve cash flow by $300M

Data-driven operations improve cash flow by $300M

How a global insurer created more scalable and productive finance and procurement processes.​
Intelligent procurement saves $24M

Intelligent procurement saves $24M

A leading chemical company frees up money to reinvest in growth by moving to a digital procurement organization.
Business growth with procurement transformation

Business growth with procurement transformation

Manufacturer leader saves $7.5M in one year and boosts business agility with digital source-to-pay solution.
Bank uses intelligent procurement to cut risk

Bank uses intelligent procurement to cut risk

A digital procurement function outmaneuvers uncertainty and drives business outcomes.

What we think

Procurement: Driving positive, sustainable change

Procurement: Driving positive, sustainable change

Accenture research shows how procurement leaders can realize new value from future-ready operations.
Sourcing a sustainable future

Sourcing a sustainable future

How leveraging procurement to manage supply chain impact can help to drive a more sustainable future.

The value multiplier

Discover how organizations can double their chances of future-ready operations in the next 3 years.

Recognizing the power of change

Accenture is recognized as the leading Sourcing & Procurement company by Everest Group, HfS Research, and IDC; and received multiple SAP Ariba awards, including the Pinnacle award.

EVEREST GROUP 2021

Accenture named a Leader in the Everest Group Procurement Outsourcing Services PEAK Matrix®

EVEREST GROUP PEAK MATRIX™ LEADER 2020

Leader and Star Performer in Everest Group Procurement Outsourcing Report

Ideas that make an impact

Insights from our Intelligent Operations Blog.

Leaders of change

Kristin Ruehle

Managing Director, Procurement Managed Services, Global Lead

Keyra Morales

Managing Director – Accenture Operations, Supply Chain Offering Lead

Michael Gaggiano

Managing Director, Procurement Business Process Services Global Delivery Lead

Bob Korbeck

Procurement Business Process Services Technology and Innovation Lead