"Sainsbury's, the UK supermarket group, is blaming Accenture for the
disastrous state of its new logistics system. It is recruiting 3,000
shelf stackers to fix the damage manually."

.The new system is unable to track stock properly and Sainsburys is
taking a £550m charge to its profits. Writing off IT assets which are
now useless will cost the supermarket £140m, writing off the cost off
automated equipment in its distribution centres will add another £120m.
The failed systems have also cost Sainsbury's £30m in stock lost or
damaged by the new system.".

[...]

'Sainsbury's chief executive Justin King complained: "'We will
renegotiate our contract with Accenture because they can and should help
us get systems where they need to be and because the current contract
has been unable to do that. The balance of responsibility currently lies
far too heavily on Accenture."'

'But Accenture was quick to distance itself from the problems, stressing
the firm was not involved in Sainsbury's four automated(or not)
distribution depots.'
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/19/sainsburys_v_accenture/

"Trucks arrive at central distribution depots to offload goods, and the
drivers hand over their delivery documents, which are manually keyed
into a computer system."

".. Accenture, is replacing the company's 18-year-old legacy Disco
warehouse management system with the more sophisticated PKMS
infrastructure from Manhattan Associates."

Abigail Waraker Mar 12 2002
http://www.vnunet.com/features/1129992

"Supermarket group Sainsbury's says it will spend £553 million on buying
the company that it hired to develop its computer systems.

The deal is with Swan - a subsidiary of Accenture"

http://www.ananova.com/business/story/sm_860489.html?menu

Sainsbury’s Links ARMs with Suppliers Through Collaboration
Case Study
Posted: June 25, 2003

Sainsbury’s Supermarkets wanted to be more proactive in managing its
supply chain and help suppliers resolve problems before they became
issues to the business, and ultimately, customers. By working with
Microsoft partner Eqos, and technology experts Accenture, the
supermarket chain has built a Web-based alerts system using the
Microsoft .NET Framework. This enables Sainsbury’s to build on previous
success and ensure it is on top of any issues that may arise, enhance
working relationships and maximise supply chain efficiency.

http://www.microsoft.com/net/casestudies/casestudy.asp?CaseStudyID=14146

.. The deal, the largest of its kind in the United Kingdom, called for
Accenture to deliver IT systems supporting three broad areas:

• Customers and Stores
• Trading and the Supply Chain
• Support Services and IT Infrastructure

[...]

In addition, in an effort to decrease costs and increase on-time
deliveries, Accenture has implemented for Sainsbury’s a new dynamic
routing engine for booking home deliveries from the Sainsbury’s-to-You site.

[...]

To make the whole system simpler and more cost effective, Accenture
standardized point of sale systems throughout all 700+ outlets including
supermarkets, gas stations and convenience stores

[...]

A joint team from Sainsbury’s, Accenture and Marketmax worked together
in the United Kingdom and United States to configure the system to
handle the scale and complexity of Sainsbury’s trading needs. As well as
the scale of the data management required, the final system also would
need to handle inbound and outbound interfaces and be web enabled.

[...]

To manage the “last 50 yards” of the supply chain, the
Sainsbury’s/Accenture team designed and implemented Shelf Availability
Monitor (SAM), an in-store system that provides critical information on
sales patterns of each individual store

[...]

Accenture chose only best in breed vendors to deliver all of the
supporting applications involved in the Sainsbury’s Business
Transformation Project. Among them:

• Avanade
• Ab Initio
• Blue Martini
• BT
• Cisco
• EMC / ISC
• HP
• Manhattan Associates
• Marketmax
• Microsoft
• MicroStrategy
• NCR
• Oracle
• Retek
• Retalix
• SeeBeyond
• Siebel
• Sun Microsystems
• Sungard
• Symbol
• Synstar
• TempoSoft
• Veritas

http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:TBUwid7uRmMJ:www.accenture.com/xdo...
http://snipurl.com/9wb4