Key results
The company
Accenture
accenture.comGlobal professional services for strategy, consulting, technology, and operations.
Result highlights
- 57,000 hours saved annually by finance teams
- 60% faster financial narrative creation
- 95% cash management accuracy via predictive AI
- 91% approval rate for AI variance analysis
- 20% reduction in idle cash flow
- 2x automatic payment clearing rate
The story
A global professional services firm with 774,000 employees running one of the world's largest SAP S/4HANA Cloud environments for finance and procurement.
Rapid growth created thousands of lines of custom code, making upgrades resource-intensive and hindering innovation. Processing corporate allocations took over 30 hours monthly, while the global financial close process required five days.
The firm migrated to a managed cloud environment to replace custom code with standard AI modules and SAP Business Technology Platform extensions. An Intelligent Financial Advisor uses generative AI to draft variance analysis narratives and flags discrepancies directly in Microsoft Teams. Predictive models in SAP Analytics Cloud handle cash forecasting like inventory optimization.
Quotes
“At Accenture, we know that today’s most successful companies are those that compress transformation and reinvent faster. Our RISE with SAP partnership opens doors to new opportunities for growth.”