Accenture buys two extra tech advisory corporations in provide chain growth
Consulting agency Accenture is increasing its provide chain follow by means of two extra acquisitions, asserting it has purchased the expertise advisory corporations this month in a bid to helps purchasers create extra clever provide chain networks.
Acccenture on September 1 acquired Raleigh, North Carolina-based MacGregor Companions, a provide chain consultancy and expertise supplier specializing in clever logistics and warehouse administration, specializing in success transformation capabilities powered by Blue Yonder expertise.
And the corporate on September 6 acquired Bellevue, Washington-based Inspirage, an built-in provide chain specialist agency targeted on Oracle expertise, with a concentrate on leveraging Oracle Cloud to speed up rising applied sciences similar to touchless provide chain and digital twins.
The phrases of neither transaction was disclosed.
The offers mark New York-based Accenture’s newest steps to proceed increasing its footprint in provide chain expertise by shopping for different corporations. In 2021, the corporate purchased Advoco, a methods integrator of enterprise expertise vendor Infor’s asset administration software program, Sentor, a supplier of cyber protection and managed safety, and Umlaut, an engineering consulting agency with expertise in cloud computing, synthetic intelligence, and 5G (fifth technology) wi-fi networks.
When the brand new offers shut, Accenture will add Inspirage’s 710 workers to the Accenture Oracle Enterprise Group, bolstering its Oracle provide chain abilities and increasing its capabilities to assist product-centric purchasers create interconnected, clever, and revolutionary provide chain networks, the corporate mentioned.
“In a time of unprecedented disruption and provide constraints, firms must reimagine, construct, and function provide chain networks that orchestrate change, simplify individuals’s lives and positively impression enterprise, society, and the planet,” Renato Scaff, North America lead of Accenture Provide Chain & Operations, mentioned in a launch. “With the addition of Inspirage and its deep trade and methods expertise, Accenture will probably be even higher positioned to assist our purchasers reinvent provide chain and manufacturing by means of Oracle applied sciences.”
Likewise, Accenture will achieve greater than 100 workers from MacGregor Companions and add them to its Clever Platform Providers group, bringing experience in serving to firms throughout industries with warehouse administration system (WMS) and transportation administration system (TMS) implementations.
“Managing rising calls for on success and distribution facilities is a key part in our purchasers’ general effort to completely reinvent their provide chain networks,” Scaff mentioned. “The acquisition of MacGregor deepens our capabilities for provide chain community transformation and extends our expert workforce in delivering efficient options with our alliance companion, Blue Yonder.”
Happy to announce we’ve got agreed to accumulate @Inspirage. This acquisition will increase our Oracle provide chain capabilities to assist speed up innovation for purchasers with rising applied sciences, like touchless #SupplyChain and digital twins. https://t.co/V32GUXWEI0
— Accenture US (@Accenture_US) September 6, 2022
We’re thrilled to announce we’ve got acquired @MacGPartners. This acquisition will increase our #SupplyChain community and success transformation capabilities. https://t.co/L3jj9Y8Z0B pic.twitter.com/gBePD39gro
— Accenture US (@Accenture_US) September 1, 2022
