Accenture to buy Irish manufacturing services company

Accenture has agreed to acquire Enterprise System Partners, a consulting and manufacturing services provider for the life sciences industry. Headquartered in Cork, Ireland, ESP will join Accenture’s digital manufacturing arm, Industry X.0, to boost Accenture’s efforts to transform manufacturing for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device clients globally.
ESP has long-standing experience in planning and implementing manufacturing solutions, with niche expertise in manufacturing execution systems and serialization. MES digitally track and document the production process, providing the groundwork for more automated and analytics-driven manufacturing and supply chains. Serialization allows life science companies to digitally track each saleable unit from the packaging line all the way to the patient.