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Accenture Supports

Accelerating Business
Transformation and
Globalization for
Fast Retailing
Summary
Fast Retailing, Japan’s largest apparel
retail group, has worked with Accenture
to establish the unified, global business
structure required to help achieve
its growth strategy of becoming the
world’s leading apparel retailer by 2020.
Accenture has supported Fast Retailing’s
growth strategy for more than a decade.

Business background Business challenge How Accenture is helping


Fast Retailing, Japan’s largest specialty Fast Retailing’s business management Fast Retailing and Accenture began
store retailer of private label apparel style is based on the concepts of “Global working together in 2001. Accenture
(SPA), has grown its business with its One” and “Zen-in Keiei” (which translates shares Fast Retailing’s vision and
flagship brand, UNIQLO, at its core. The as “managed by everyone”). These continues to support the group’s ongoing
first UNIQLO store opened in Hiroshima concepts involve managing all group transformation and rapid growth and
in 1984. Since then, the business has companies as a single, united entity. expansion. Through project “Global One,”
achieved outstanding growth, including Accenture is directly supporting Fast
A key issue Fast Retailing faced was how
the huge success of the UNIQLO Fleece, Retailing’s global business transformation,
to build the global business infrastructure
launched in 1998. Sales reached 928.6 which tar­gets every area of business from
necessary to maintain and strengthen a
billion yen for the 2012 fiscal year ending business management and merchandise
unified culture and organization while
August 31, 2012. Currently, Fast Retailing, design, to inventory and distribution
pursuing business transformation and
with its flagship brand UNIQLO, is ranked management and hiring and training
growth in the global market. Based on the
fourth in the global apparel retail sector. personnel.
retailer’s successful working relationship
This group has set the ambitious target with Accenture spanning more than 10 Project “Global One” involves
of becoming the number one apparel years, Fast Retailing chose Accenture standardizing business procedures
retailer in the world and increasing sales to help establish the global business through the creation of an integrated
to five trillion yen by 2020. In recent structure required to resolve this issue. infrastructure at the group and global
years, the group has been accelerating level. Accenture has supported Fast
its global expansion to meet that target, Retailing with this transformation project,
establishing operations in Europe, the coordinating the efforts of its bases
United States and Asia.

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“To achieve our goal of becoming the number one
global retailer by 2020, it’s important for us to
review and update our strategy, work structures,
organization systems and IT infrastructure regularly.
Accenture’s overall support and specific solutions
have helped us to achieve our goals so far, and I feel
confident that their knowledge and experience, in
the area of HR as well as their global network, will
continue to help us in the future.”
Fast Retailing Management

in Tokyo and around the world—from To help achieve the goals aligned with Accenture continues to provide Fast
North America to Europe, China and the Fast Retailing’s concepts of “Global Retailing with consulting and systems
Asian region. In particular, Accenture has One” and “Zen-in Keiei”, Accenture has development support on an ongoing basis
provided, and is providing, Fast Retailing built a global business management and works closely with the company to
with support for the following business infrastructure that would unify business offer multifaceted assistance aiming at
processes, including organizational processes organizations and information helping it achieve its 2020 vision and
change and all relevant system systems. growing into a high-performing, global
implementation. corporation.

• Merchandising planning High performance delivered


• Supply chain management As it has done for more than a decade,
with project “Global One” Accenture has
• Sales/store operations
mobilized a whole range of resources to
• Human resources support Fast Retailing’s growth. With that
• Finance support, Fast Retailing has enhanced its
competitiveness on the global market,
For Fast Retailing’s “Global One” project, steadily helping increase its capabilities
Accenture collaborated with executives in terms of business speed, quality of
in each business area—working across a products and services, and innovation.
broad spectrum of cultures, customs and
languages to assess and determine leading The IT infrastructure created within the
practices for procedures and to build “Global One” framework can allow Fast
the required global business structure. Retailing to react more quickly to changes
For example, teams in Japan, Asia, North in its business environment and enter new
America and Europe work closely to markets easily.
mitigate the various challenges created
between different geographies.

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