Supply Chain & Engineering Analyst Recognition

HFS Research has named Accenture a Market Leader in Horizon 3, which is the strongest positioning, in the HFS Horizons Intelligent Supply Chain Services, 2025 report.

Horizon 3 positioning indicates that Accenture is recognized for realizing “the vision of intelligent, interoperable, and connected supply networks” and leading “the systemic transformation of supply chains through AI, data platforms, and digital twins.” It also underscores our strategic investments, purpose-led transformation capabilities, and our position as thought leaders.

According to HFS report authors, “Accenture’s edge in supply chain is end-to-end reinvention powered by AI and agentic architectures, enabling autonomous, resilient, and sustainable networks. Its solutions integrate GenAI, predictive analytics, and multi-agent systems to optimize planning, sourcing, logistics, and fulfillment, delivered through key ecosystem partnerships and scaled managed services."

Other Accenture highlights cited in the report include:

• Technology innovation: Accenture, NVIDIA, and KION unveiled a “warehouse of the future,” using Omniverse digital twins to optimize layouts, robot workflows, and safety with Belden’s virtual fences. It launched the NVIDIA Business Group to scale agentic AI for planning, fulfillment, and AI-powered factories. It also strengthened Oracle's logistics execution in Europe through the acquisitions of Inspirage and Flo Group for OTM/GTM programs.
  
  
• Key outcomes: Accenture signed a multi-year engagement with BAT in mid-2025 to transform supply network operations and business processes at a global scale. It collaborated with Microsoft to digitize its cloud supply chain using AI-powered control towers and digital twins, delivering $100 million in savings and accelerating hyperscale growth.
  
  
• Client and partner kudos: The firm earned the SAP Global Line of Business Partner Excellence Award for Supply Chain Management (Sales Success – Large Enterprise), underscoring its strengths in rapid logistics re-platforming and managing run-operate engagements.

Accenture helps clients harness AI to optimize their supply chains with minimal human intervention, enhancing competitiveness, agility, and resilience while enabling more responsive operations. By embedding intelligence across planning, procurement, and fulfillment, organizations can deliver deeper customer satisfaction and adapt more effectively to shifting market demands.

To learn more about reinventing supply chain services with Accenture, please visit: Reinvent Supply Chain with AI and Data | Accenture

Accenture is a Leader in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Life Sciences Intelligent Supply Chain Services 2025 Vendor Assessment. (August 2025, IDC # US51047023)

We believe this recognition reflects how our AI-driven, multi-disciplinary approach drives client success by delivering faster innovation, stronger supply chain performance, and integration across manufacturing, R&D, regulatory and quality functions in Life Sciences.

According to the report IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Life Sciences Intelligent Supply Chain Services 2025 Vendor Assessment, Accenture strengths include:

• Depth and breadth of industry expertise aligned with the evolving industry landscape: With over three decades of experience in life sciences, Accenture’s expertise extends to multiple life sciences segments and functional areas. Customers value the company’s deep knowledge and understanding of industry trends and challenges. Its depth of expertise allows it to provide tailored services to life sciences clients, aligned with fast-evolving operational and regulatory requirements and specific complexities in the emerging life sciences supply chain landscape.
  
  
• AI-driven innovation capabilities: Accenture maintains a strategic focus on integrating advanced AI technologies to enhance intelligent supply chain services and enable scalable AI-driven orchestration for complex, multi-modal supply chains. The company’s strong capabilities in AI, GenAI, and agentic AI enable it to support life sciences customers in intelligent decision-making and automation across all major SCM functions within complex global supply chain networks.
  
  
• Integrated, customer-centric transformation approach: Accenture emphasizes an integrated approach to supply-chain transformation across SCM and business functions to deliver 360-degree business value. Customers recognize Accenture for its responsiveness, flexibility, and outcome-oriented approach. By leveraging structured service delivery methodologies and frameworks and industry-specific accelerators, Accenture helps customers orchestrate large, enterprise-wide supply chain transformations while ensuring strong alignment with specific business objectives.
  
  
• Robust ecosystem strategy and commitment to innovation: Ecosystem innovation is central to Accenture’s innovation strategy. The company effectively leverages strategic alliances with a diverse set of global technology vendors and niche and emerging startups. These partnerships — combined with its academic collaborations and dedicated innovation centers and centers of excellence worldwide, including centers in Dublin, Boston, Barcelona, Bangalore, and Singapore — enable Accenture to address evolving supply chain complexities with tailored capabilities and services.

Today, life sciences organizations want fast, efficient and compliant supply chains that deliver results for them and for their patients. To learn more about Life Sciences Supply Chain and Operation Services provided by Accenture, please visit: Life Sciences Supply Chain & Operations Services | Accenture

About IDC MarketScape:
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market.

IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

Everest Group has positioned Accenture as the highest-designated Leader on the Vision and Capability axis in its Net Zero Consulting Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025.

For this evaluation, Everest Group assessed 32 leading net-zero service providers.

Arpita Dwivedi, Practice Director, Everest Group, says, “Net zero is no longer a distant aspiration. It requires clear strategies, deep industry knowledge and strong execution. Accenture combines these strengths through its broad consulting portfolio, supported by solutions such as its ESG Concierge Toolkit and its supply Chain decarbonization suite, as well as its robust partner ecosystem spanning leading cloud providers, ESG software vendors, and data specialists. Clients consistently value Accenture’s grasp of their business context, its pragmatic guidance, and proven delivery excellence. Its structured talent programs in climate, sustainability software, and green tech ensure the right expertise is available at every stage of engagement. These strengths have helped Accenture earn a Leader position in Everest Group’s Net Zero Consulting Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025.”

Specifically, we believe the following strengths contributed to our Leader positioning:

• Strong consulting expertise across scopes 1, 2, and 3, supported by assets such as our decarbonization framework and generative AI-enabled tools for materiality and CSRD advisory.
  
  
• IP-led consulting assets such as Green Cloud Advisor and Sustainable IT Diagnostic, helping clients assess IT and cloud decarbonization option through data-driven advisory.
  
  
• Expanded net-zero consulting and energy management expertise through recent acquisitions such as Partner in Performance, Green Domus, and Zestgroup.
  

According to the research, “Leaders offer comprehensive consulting across strategy, emissions measurement, low-carbon design, ESG integration, and carbon markets (credits/trading.” Further, “Their services are power by in-house platforms such as climate risk assessment platforms, decarbonization frameworks, and software tools for emissions planning and regulatory compliance.”

To learn more about Net-Zero consulting services offerings provided by Accenture, please visit: Net Zero Transition | Accenture

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Accenture is named to the Leaders Category in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Carbon Management and Net-Zero Services 2025 Vendor Assessment. (June 2025, IDC #US53559524)

We believe this recognition reflects our strong capabilities and forward-looking strategies in carbon accounting and GHG accounting as well as our end-to-end net-zero transition solution.

According to the report:

• “Accenture's strengths lie in its ability to tailor and score carbon abatement strategies and methodologies to fit its client's organizational materiality and maturity.”
  
  
• “Accenture's capabilities in Scope 3 emissions modeling and abatement are true differentiators for clients whose maturity in sustainability requires cutting-edge subject matter expertise.”
  
  
• “Accenture's subject matter experts and powerful adject software offerings enable the company to deliver value to clients with existing net-zero and carbon management strategies, as well as develop, implement, and operationalize new strategies for customers.”

Today, every organization must embrace sustainability for future competitiveness. For more information on Accenture’s Sustainability consulting services, please visit: Sustainability consulting

About IDC MarketScape:
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier’s position within a given market.

IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

Everest Group has positioned Accenture as the highest-designated Leader on both the Market Impact axis and the Vision and Capability axis in its Procurement Outsourcing (PO) Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2025. Accenture is also a Star Performer in this report, reflecting our significant growth in this area.

“Accenture continues to demonstrate comprehensive procurement outsourcing capabilities, combining deep and diverse category expertise, advanced digital solutions, and strong end-to-end process experience to deliver measurable value for clients contributing to its position as a Leader and Star Performer in Everest Group's 2025 Procurement Outsourcing (PO) Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment,” says Shirley Hung, Partner at Everest Group. “Accenture’s consistent investments in AI-powered insights and intelligent automation to enhance sourcing outcomes and improve risk management further cement its role as a trusted partner for companies seeking to elevate procurement into a strategic enabler for the organization.”

Specifically, Accenture strengths highlighted in the report include:

• Offers advisory-led transformation with robust sourcing and category management via the SynOps platform, Accenture’s AI-powered platform to run autonomous process operations across the enterprise and integrated analytics, automation, and AI (including Gen AI and Agents) across source to pay to drive efficiencies and enhance outcomes.
  
  
• Demonstrates deep expertise across direct and indirect spend categories, including IT, telecom, logistics, MRO, and insurance.
  
  
• Provides industry-specific procurement services, notably in healthcare and financial services.
  
  
• Strengthened capabilities through acquisitions like ClearEdge, Impendi, and Insight Sourcing.
  
  
• Delivers integrated sourcing and supply chain resiliency, including supplier diversification and risk modeling.
  
  
• Embeds generative AI across source to pay process through SynOps, including capabilities for contract analysis and geopolitical risk modeling.
  
  
• Invests in agentic AI pilots to enhance decision-making in procurement.
  
  
• Supports sustainability through supplier diversity, responsible sourcing, and partnerships with clean energy and carbon tracking platforms.
  
  
• Expanded global delivery footprint with new centers in the Philippines, Canada, and Mexico.
  
  
• Recognized by clients for leadership stability, subject matter expertise, and agile service delivery.

Leaders featured in this report “have solidified their position in the PO market, even though growth momentum in 2024 continued to be moderate.” They have also “enhanced their end-to-end S2P capabilities through continued investments in their advisory capabilities, domain and category expertise, industry-specific solutions, and AI capabilities that enable them to drive large-scale, end-to-end transformation of procurement operations.”

Companies today face the challenge of rapidly scaling innovation, adapting to market shifts, and capturing new opportunities—all while controlling costs and enhancing customer experiences. Accenture helps procurement leaders meet this challenge through strategic sourcing, advanced digital capabilities, and industry-specific expertise, enabling procurement to become a driver of enterprise growth and agility. For more information on Procurement Managed Services offered by Accenture, please visit: Procurement Managed Services | Accenture

Disclaimer

Licensed extracts taken from Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® Reports, may be used by licensed third parties for use in their own marketing and promotional activities and collateral. Selected extracts from Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® reports do not necessarily provide the full context of our research and analysis.  All research and analysis conducted by Everest Group’s analysts and included in Everest Group’s PEAK Matrix® reports is independent and no organization has paid a fee to be featured or to influence their ranking.  To access the complete research and to learn more about our methodology, please visit Everest Group PEAK Matrix® Reports.

About Everest Group
Everest Group is a leading global research firm helping business leaders make confident decisions. Everest Group's PEAK Matrix® assessments provide the analysis and insights enterprises need to make critical selection decisions about global services providers, locations, and products and solutions within various market segments. Likewise, providers of these services, products, and solutions, look to the PEAK Matrix® to gauge and calibrate their offerings against others in the industry or market. Find further details and in-depth content at Everest Group®.