ACN News & Events

Mitsubishi Chemical and Accenture have established a joint venture to support the chemical firm's AI-enabled reinvention, with the aim of optimizing corporate operations and building a sustainable operating model to meet the ongoing challenge of productivity improvement in Japan. The new company, Rix Business Partners, was established through DIA-RIX, the wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical from which the joint venture is being formed. Through the joint venture, the two companies will develop an AI-enabled digital platform to underpin Mitsubishi's corporate functions-primarily general affairs, including administrative services and facilities management-across its domestic offices and manufacturing sites. The platform will support Mitsubishi Chemical as it enters its next phase of growth by enhancing visibility, standardization and cross-site management, and enabling it to adapt to changes in the workforce. By embedding AI across day-to-day activities, employees can focus on higher value-added activities related to business and manufacturing.

Powerfleet (AIOT) announced a strategic partnership with Accenture (ACN), marking a significant step forward in expanding intelligent safety technologies across Central Europe. As part of this collaboration, Accenture has selected Powerfleet as a strategic safety solutions partner, actively promoting and recommending Powerfleet's end-to-end portfolio, including its Connected Warehouse and on-road safety solutions, to its enterprise customers across the region, with plans to scale further.

HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, and Accenture announced a collaboration whereby Accenture will be a strategic reinvention & AI partner in Saudi Arabia, helping HUMAIN scale its AI capabilities across the Kingdom. This strategic collaboration aims to accelerate the adoption of AI across government entities and enterprises, moving from early-stage experimentation and pilot programs to operational, production-grade AI systems. The collaboration brings together HUMAIN's locally operated, full AI stack including next-generation data centers, high-performance infrastructure and cloud platforms, advanced AI models, and applied AI solutions, with Accenture's global capability to design, build, and run AI-driven transformation. Together, the two organizations will enable institutions across the Kingdom to embed AI into core operations securely, responsibly, and in line with regulatory requirements. Unlike traditional advisory-led models, the HUMAIN-Accenture collaboration is designed to deliver end-to-end execution by combining infrastructure, platforms, and operational delivery to unlock value from AI at scale. The collaboration will provide organizations with a flexible, production-ready model for adopting AI, aligned with existing technological environments and long-term transformation priorities.

Accenture has invested, through Accenture Ventures, in Aera Technology, a leader in agentic decision intelligence for enterprises. The companies will combine Aera's decision intelligence and Accenture's AI-enabled supply chain capabilities to bring AI-led, real-time decision-making solutions to complex global supply chains in the consumer goods, high-tech, life sciences, mining and oil & gas industries. "Today's business environment is constantly stress-testing supply chains," said Chris McDivitt, global lead for autonomous supply chains at Accenture. "The speed at which decisions are required to balance costs and services is outstripping what manual, siloed processes can sustain. Our partnership with Aera Technology will enable highly resilient, AI-enabled supply chains that can sense change before disruption hits, equip our clients' supply chain teams with recommendations how to act, and execute many of those decisions automatically under human oversight." Terms of the investment were not disclosed.