Essity Collaborates with Accenture and Microsoft to Accelerate Adoption of AI Agents to Drive Productivity and Growth

Essity (STO: ESSITY-B) has selected Accenture (NYSE: ACN) and Microsoft to help the global hygiene and health company accelerate the use of AI agents to unlock value and drive efficiencies and growth through improved business agility.

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Essity has selected Accenture and Microsoft to help the global hygiene and health company accelerate the use of AI agents to unlock value and drive efficiencies and growth through improved business agility.

As part of the multi-year collaboration, the companies will work together at Essity’s AI Centre of Excellence. Accenture’s top cloud, data and AI experts with deep industry and functional knowledge will use Microsoft’s advanced technologies such as Azure, Copilot Studio, Power Platform and collaborate with Microsoft experts for technical guidance and support. Together, the companies will create a robust and flexible cloud-based technology platform that will provide next-generation AI capabilities, on which Essity can test and scale solutions across their core business processes and functions to deliver transformational impact.

This first phase of the collaboration will focus on enhancing procurement and finance operations, where cross-functional teams will test, observe and continuously improve these areas over a period of time. Longer term, Essity plans to scale AI across the company to reinvent other end-to-end business processes, enabling new pathways to value and growth.

“To accelerate value generation for our consumers, customers and our employees, we are collaborating with Accenture and Microsoft to access strong industry, functional, technical and product expertise, crucial for ensuring we have the agility to move as the market does,” said Carl-Magnus Månsson, Essity’s Chief Digital and Information Officer. “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. The platform will be developed with leading design principles within a responsible AI framework designed to ensure ethical and legally compliant use and aligned to our company core values: We are committed, we care, we collaborate, and we have courage.”