Accenture Helps Syngenta Transform its Global Logistics with New Digital Operating Model to Drive Efficiencies, Cost Savings ...
January 11 2017 - 4:59AM
Business Wire
Syngenta, a leading agriculture company, has collaborated with
Accenture (NYSE:ACN) to design and implement a new digital
logistics operating model across all modes of transportation,
including sea and air freight globally and road freight in North
America and Europe. It will enable Syngenta to more effectively
manage increasingly complex logistics networks and operations with
lower costs and higher service performance.
Accenture Strategy in collaboration with Syngenta Global
Logistics designed a “4PL” global operating model that features a
network of control towers coordinating regional and global
transport orchestrated by external fourth-party logistics providers
(4PL). These providers manage all transportation activities on
Syngenta’s behalf, leveraging their detailed logistics expertise
and regional market knowledge.
“In the current business environment, dominated by disruption,
organizations need an operating model strategy that can totally
transform how they deliver value to customers and shareholders,”
said Bernd Kreutzer, managing director, chemicals and natural
resources, Accenture Strategy. “Taking advantage of an expanded
ecosystem to bring in capabilities from partners, and employing a
combination of cloud and analytics technologies to enable
data-driven decisions in real-time, will help Syngenta drive
innovation, efficiency and competitive advantage.”
The new model, implemented through the partnership of Accenture
Consulting and the Syngenta Logistics team, will enable greater
visibility through insightful dashboards, connected through a
hybrid cloud. This will provide Syngenta with accurate, timely
information about its logistics operations, with the aim of
improving business insights, transport planning and delivery
performance for its customers.
“This new solution allows us to capitalize on external expertise
that is outside our core business, bringing agility, global scale,
and simplification to our global logistics program,” said Marion
Matthewman, Head of Global Logistics at Syngenta. “This will
facilitate quick reactions to changing market conditions and enable
future growth. In the process, it will reduce transport costs,
contribute to our targets for carbon footprint reductions and help
create a stronger customer experience.”
The strategic initiative is powered by a cloud-based supply
chain collaboration platform, provided by GT Nexus. This network
connects Syngenta’s Enterprise Resource Planning Systems with its
external logistics partners, holds all relevant data worldwide in a
secure shared environment, and enables seamless data exchange and
analysis. Syngenta will maintain the key logistics knowledge and
data ownership for monitoring and governing these providers.
“Our collaboration with Syngenta to combine local expertise and
centralized control brings the company one step closer towards
having a world-class logistics organization,” said Matthias Hégelé,
managing director for Resources at Accenture in Austria,
Switzerland and Germany. “The consolidated global data allows for
greater application of analytics to help Syngenta achieve business
insights for efficiencies and cost savings.”
Syngenta chose Accenture based on its deep industry and
logistics expertise, its global reach and its ability to manage
massive transformation projects end-to-end across continents.
The global implementation across Syngenta’s two business units
follows a successful pilot in North America and Europe in October
2015.
About Accenture
Accenture is a leading global professional services company,
providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy,
consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched
experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries
and all business functions – underpinned by the world’s largest
delivery network – Accenture works at the intersection of business
and technology to help clients improve their performance and create
sustainable value for their stakeholders. With more than 394,000
people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives
innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us
at www.accenture.com.
Accenture Strategy operates at the intersection of business and
technology. We bring together our capabilities in business,
technology, operations and function strategy to help our clients
envision and execute industry-specific strategies that support
enterprise wide transformation. Our focus on issues related to
digital disruption, competitiveness, global operating models,
talent and leadership help drive both efficiencies and growth. For
more information, follow @AccentureStrat or visit
www.accenture.com/strategy.
About Syngenta
Syngenta is a leading agriculture company helping to improve
global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better
use of available resources. Through world class science and
innovative crop solutions, our 28,000 people in over 90 countries
are working to transform how crops are grown. We are committed to
rescuing land from degradation, enhancing biodiversity and
revitalizing rural communities. To learn more, visit
www.syngenta.com and www.goodgrowthplan.com. Follow us on Twitter®
at www.twitter.com/Syngenta and www.twitter.com/SyngentaUS.
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