Bengaluru: EY, Accenture, Infosys, TCS, and IBM are the top five service providers for supply chain services, said a study with HFS research.
This report has focused on the entire spectrum of supply chains, including planning and design, order management, inventory management, procurement and sources, aftermarket services, supply chain sustainability and transportation management.
EY is No.
1 with more than 30 exclusive technology assets.
It offers cross-consulting services, managed services, and technology products.
EY has more than 47,000 practitioners, almost 2,000 clients, and 77 shipping centers for the practice of supply chain.
It has worked with more than 50% of Fortune 50 and Fortune 100 companies.
The report said more than 80% of supply chain executives expect third party services for the supply chain increase, with the expected growth of around 5.5% (weighted average) in the next 12 months.
Ordering management, inventory management, and sources and procurement are relatively mature.
HFS estimates that significant potential has not been used for third party services in supply chain planning, aftermarket services, and sustainability services.
“More than 70% of supply chain executives expect an increase in expenditure for emerging technology (cross clouds, process automation, intelligence process, AI, smart analysis, blockchain, IoT, and 5G) for the next 12 to 18 months.
The term ‘supply chain’ It is mistaken to meet the reality of the world today.
It connotes linearly and thought is limited.
We need to free yourself.
It’s time to open your supply chain, “said Saurabh Gupta, President HFS Research, who jointly wrote a report with his colleagues , Accenture, the report said, has built a smart supply chain platform that includes more than 50 AI applications to provide applied intelligence micro services (procurement, intelligent planning, smart logistics, smart manufacturing).
Accenture has 23,078 people in the practice of its supply chain service.
Accenture made two acquisitions this year – Repl Group, and GRA – to strengthen the supply chain business.
Infosys have more than 25,000 employees in this space.
It has 1,300 clients including Mazda, Cisco, Adidas, boral ultrasound and syngenta.
TCS offers supply chain solutions for retail which includes Smart Sourcing, Adaptive Forecasting, Omnichannel Operations, Acceleration Fulfillment & Mil Optimization Last, Inventory & Optimization.
In consumer package items, it offers integrated distributor management & integrated vendor management system.
It has a major number of 40,000-45,000 employees with 183 shipping centers.