{"id":1619,"date":"2010-10-06T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/projects\/horsesforsources\/accenture-bags-aribas_100610\/"},"modified":"2010-10-06T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T08:59:00","slug":"accenture-bags-aribas_100610","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/accenture-bags-aribas_100610\/","title":{"rendered":"Accenture bags Ariba&#8217;s sourcing practice to extend its global category management capabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4624\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4624 \" title=\"elephant sourcing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/elephant.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"312\" height=\"228\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#39;s trunk-time for Ariba, as it sources its managed services business to Accenture<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Procurement technology and services provider Ariba has found a heavyweight home for its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/accenture-to-enhance-sourcing-and-procurement-services-with-acquisition-of-aribas-sourcing-services-and-business-process-outsourcing-assets-2010-10-06?reflink=MW_news_stmp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">outsourcing business<\/a> with Accenture<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Having made the decision, in recent years, not to expand its outsourcing business beyond its not-inconsiderable client footprint, Ariba also attempted a partnership with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horsesforsources.com\/hurd-bpo-080810\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HP&#8217;s BPO business<\/a> which never got off the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Accenture announced a significant move to incorporate Ariba&#8217;s managed services business into its own global procurement and sourcing operations, which adds considerable category expertise to both Accenture&#8217;s existing European\u00a0procurement\u00a0services operation in Prague, Czech Republic, but also Ariba&#8217;s onshore procurement services center in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>HfS Research views this move as significant for a number of reasons:<!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many Ariba services and technology clients have been demanding additional global sourcing support for years, where Ariba hasn&#8217;t had the capacity to take on the additional business. \u00a0Accenture provides the scale, technology implementation expertise, consulting skills and existing procurement delivery infrastructure (onshore, nearshore and offshore) to take advantage of this demand;<\/li>\n<li>Procurement BPO clients are demanding more category expertise through direct (not solely indirect)\u00a0procurement\u00a0channels. \u00a0Accenture have bolstered these\u00a0capabilities\u00a0with Ariba;<\/li>\n<li>Ariba&#8217;s personnel adds valuable institutional knowledge to bolster Accentures sourcing consulting capabilities;<\/li>\n<li>Accenture has significant added expertise and scale to deliver both direct and indirect sourcing for US-headquartered industrials, manufacturing, CPG, hi-tech, telco and retail customers;<\/li>\n<li>Accenture now moves ahead of the pack with its Pan-European\u00a0procurement BPO capabilities;<\/li>\n<li>Accenture can more effectively stave-off aggressive competition for procurement\u00a0BPO engagements, from emerging providers, such as InfosysBPO and TCS, which have been making inroads into global customers;<\/li>\n<li>Acquisitions\u00a0in services are more effective than partnerships &#8211; especially where institutional knowledge and deep domain skills are concerned. \u00a0Accenture has picked up a heritage business to re-energize its existing sourcing BPO business, while much of its aggressive competition are settling for niche &#8220;tuck-in&#8221; acquisitions that add incremental value, but often do not bring the global scale and competency an acquisition of this magnitude can bring. \u00a0It&#8217;s not always about buying technology, sometimes acquiring <em>people talent <\/em>is important &#8211; and procurement is one of those areas where you need people skills and ingrained domain knowledge to deliver complex engagements.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s trunk-time for Ariba, as it sources its managed services business to Accenture Procurement technology and services provider Ariba has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,836],"tags":[142],"organization":[],"ppma_author":[19],"class_list":["post-1619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-process-outsourcing-bpo","category-procurement-engineering-supply-chain-outsourcing","tag-ariba"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - 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