Major Climate Threat to Global Supply Chains Identified by New Research from the Carbon Disclosure Project and Accenture
NEW YORK; January 22, 2013 -- Seventy percent of companies believe that climate change has the potential to significantly affect their revenue, a risk which is intensified by a chasm between the sustainable business practices of multinational corporations and their suppliers, according to research published today by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and Accenture (NYSE:ACN).
January 22, 2013
Companies yet to realize significant emissions reductions across their supply chains despite opportunity for cost savings, finds Carbon Disclosure Project and Accenture
LONDON and NEW YORK; Feb. 1, 2012 – Despite improving their own carbon performance, multinational companies are not yet demonstrating significant emissions reductions in their supply chains, according to research published today by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) and Accenture (NYSE:ACN). The report on 49* CDP member companies, including L’Oréal, Philips and Walmart, and more than 1,800 of their suppliers revealed that while 43% of responding companies have achieved year-on-year emissions reductions, only 28% of suppliers have done so.
February 01, 2012
Accenture Wins JDA Software Global Systems Integration Award
NEW YORK; May 23, 2011 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has been named by JDA Software Group, Inc., as the winner of its 2011 Global Systems Integrator Customer Co-Innovation Award. The award recognizes companies that improve customers’ return on investment and drive innovation when implementing JDA solutions. The award was presented at the JDA FOCUS 2011 event in Orlando, Fla.
May 23, 2011
Accenture Opens Analytics Innovation Center in Barcelona
BARCELONA; April 6, 2011 -Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced the expansion of its global network of analytics innovation centers with the opening of a new center in Barcelona, Spain. The Center is a global showcase for Accenture’s predictive analytics capabilities to clients who visit from around the world, with an initial focus on supply chain management. The new facility is designed and equipped to address a wide range of issues that companies may be facing as they seek to glean deeper insights from data and improve decision-making processes, by providing them with quick and easy access to a range of sophisticated analytics solutions and resources, locally and globally.
April 06, 2011
Accenture Opens Analytics Innovation Center in Barcelona
BARCELONA; April 6, 2011 -Accenture (NYSE: ACN) today announced the expansion of its global network of analytics innovation centers with the opening of a new center in Barcelona, Spain. The Center is a global showcase for Accenture’s predictive analytics capabilities to clients who visit from around the world, with an initial focus on supply chain management. The new facility is designed and equipped to address a wide range of issues that companies may be facing as they seek to glean deeper insights from data and improve decision-making processes, by providing them with quick and easy access to a range of sophisticated analytics solutions and resources, locally and globally.
April 06, 2011
Accenture Awarded Five Year Outsourcing and Management Consulting Contract with CEVA LOGISTICS
AMSTERDAM; March 29, 2011 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has entered into a multi-year contract in which it will provide the Netherlands-based global logistics company CEVA with finance and accounting (F&A) business process outsourcing (BPO), and management consulting services. The financial terms of the contract were not disclosed.
March 29, 2011
Accenture Awarded Five Year Outsourcing and Management Consulting Contract with CEVA LOGISTICS
AMSTERDAM; March 29, 2011 – Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has entered into a multi-year contract in which it will provide the Netherlands-based global logistics company CEVA with finance and accounting (F&A) business process outsourcing (BPO), and management consulting services. The financial terms of the contract were not disclosed.
March 29, 2011
Accenture Broadens Digital Relationship With Universal Music Group
LONDON; Dec. 7, 2010 – Accenture (NYSE:ACN) is expanding its relationship with the Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s largest music company, following a successful, two-year collaboration to develop and deploy Accenture’s Digital Supply Chain Platform.
December 07, 2010
Accenture Broadens Digital Relationship With Universal Music Group
LONDON; Dec. 7, 2010 – Accenture (NYSE:ACN) is expanding its relationship with the Universal Music Group (UMG), the world’s largest music company, following a successful, two-year collaboration to develop and deploy Accenture’s Digital Supply Chain Platform.
December 07, 2010
Accenture Wins $73 Million Energy Supply Chain Integration Contract
RESTON, Va.; Sept. 7, 2010 – The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) awarded Accenture (NYSE: ACN) a four-year, $73 million contract to integrate DLA’s energy supply chain into its enterprise business system (EBS) program. The energy convergence program is designed to incorporate DLA's energy supply chain business into its enterprise resource planning (ERP) architecture, which Accenture introduced in 2000 via the business systems modernization (BSM) contract.
September 07, 2010