Essity Teams With Accenture, Microsoft on Enterprise-Wide Agentic Implementation
Global health and hygiene company Essity, which manufactures brands such as Tempo, Tork, Actimove, and Cutimed, will lean into generative and agentic AI capabilities to introduce new business efficiencies and drive growth.
The company will work with Accenture and Microsoft as part of a multi-year partnership to embed technology such as Azure, Copilot Studio and Power Platform — paired with technical guidance on cloud, data and AI stacks — within its AI center of excellence.
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The cloud-based initiative looks to increase the business's flexibility, allowing it to more easily test and scale tech innovations across its core functions and processes. In the first phase, Essity will overhaul its procurement and finance operations, using a cross-functional approach for continuous improvements as it trials solutions.
The company plans to scale the effort enterprise-wide in the long term.
Carl-Magnus Mansson, Essity’s chief digital and information officer, said the company will have access to strong industry, functional, technical and product expertise as it increases its agility and accelerates value creation for its consumers, customers and employees.
“We are creating a robust and flexible foundation and approach for developing and embedding data and AI in our core business processes to create value and deliver growth," he said in the statement. "The platform will be developed with leading design principles within a responsible AI framework designed to ensure ethical and legally compliant use."
