Accenture ties-up with Azure Power to implement ERP solution

IT consulting firm Accenture today said it has bagged a deal from an independent solar power producer in India, Azure Power, to implement enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution.
Accenture said it will provide implementation services in support of the SAP solution to Azure Power to help it strengthen business processes and improve planning, budgeting, forecasting, supply chain and revenue projections.
The solution will help Azure scale its rapidly expanding solar footprint across India and will enable more effective management of complex business transactions, it added.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
"We are seeing an increasing number of independent providers entering the market to take advantage of the opportunity offered by solar but it is critical that these companies have the right business framework in place to support the fast pace of growth in this sector," Accenture Resources Operating Group MD India Sandeep Dutta said in a statement.

Azure Power CEO Inderpreet Wadhwa said: "We are leading the solar revolution in India by bringing the cost of solar energy from Rs 17.97/KWhr in 2010 to Rs 5.45/KWhr in 2014 and are working with the government and all stakeholders to reach grid parity by 2017.