INFRONEER Partners with Accenture to Improve Financial Management

The new system is the first step in a larger project to create a next-generation digital platform that connects management data across the entire organization. It links project-level cost information with group-wide financial data, helping leaders make faster and more informed decisions. The initiative supports INFRONEER's goal of becoming a full-service infrastructure company that manages the entire infrastructure lifecycle, rather than focusing only on construction projects.

To address industry challenges such as aging infrastructure, labor shortages, and slow digital adoption, INFRONEER has been strengthening its management capabilities by centralizing and visualizing important business data. This effort was accelerated through INFRONEER Strategy & Innovation, a joint venture established with Accenture in April 2025.

As part of the project, the company implemented SAP Cloud ERP for its financial accounting operations. The implementation was completed at one of the fastest speeds seen in Japan, thanks to INFRONEER's management-led approach to business improvement, close collaboration with its operating companies, and a dedicated team from Accenture and SAP.

Going forward, INFRONEER and Accenture plan to expand the platform to other business areas such as procurement and cost management. They also aim to introduce AI-powered analytics and forecasting tools to improve decision-making. In the long term, the company hopes to create a model that can be adopted across the infrastructure and construction industry, helping improve productivity and address broader infrastructure challenges.

Kazunari Kibe, Representative Executive Officer and President, INFRONEER Holdings Inc., said, "The most important insight from this project is that building core enterprise systems should be treated not as an operational project, but as a management driven initiative. These projects often become prolonged because development begins before management has defined what data it needs to see and how it will use that data to make decisions—questions only management can answer. At INFRONEER HD, we have long practiced data driven management and refined our management framework together with Accenture. That foundation enabled us to deploy our financial accounting system in just three months and begin expanding into other business areas—rather than years such projects typically require. Going forward, we plan to extend this approach into other functions and across the entire group and position management led, data driven transformation as a catalyst for innovation in the infrastructure and construction industry."

Dai Hamaoka, Representative Director and President Japan Country Managing Director, Accenture, said, "Through its Reinvention Services, Accenture helps clients achieve rapid transformation by integrating management and performance improvement, business and operational reform, core system modernization, data and AI, ecosystem collaboration, and operations outsourcing into a single, connected effort. Our work with INFRONEER HD is Reinvention Services in action: We combined data- and AI-powered business reform with operational efficiency and end-to-end transformation from the boardroom to the front line to bring core enterprise systems live in just three months. This is a best-case outcome enabled by specific preconditions—executive engagement, prior business reform, organizational culture, and industry and process context—and while it may not apply to every client, this approach can reliably reduce both implementation timelines and investment. As AI becomes central to enterprise management, the ability to deliver this kind of implementation speed is more critical than ever to sharpening decision-making, raising productivity, and strengthening competitiveness."

Yoshiro Horikawa, President & Representative Director, SAP Japan, said, "This initiative by INFRONEER HD represents a concrete outcome of the collaboration program between SAP Japan and Accenture to rapidly establish SAP Cloud ERP as a foundation for AI driven value creation. Brought live in just three months, this advanced project serves as a flagship SAP Cloud ERP initiative in Japan's construction industry. By combining customers' strong commitment to management transformation and deep understanding of Japanese business operations with SAP's global standardization expertise and advanced technologies, SAP Japan will continue supporting customers in advancing operations that underpin social infrastructure."

INFRONEER Holdings (INFRONEER HD) was founded in 2021 and includes Maeda Corporation, Maeda Road Construction, and Maeda Seisakusho as its main operating companies. The company brings together decades of experience in civil engineering, building construction, road paving, and construction machinery.

Today, INFRONEER HD operates as an integrated infrastructure services company, managing every stage of infrastructure projects. Its services cover the entire lifecycle, from planning and design to construction, operation, and long-term maintenance.

Accenture helps leading companies around the world transform and grow by strengthening their digital operations and using technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) to create business value faster.

The company aims to be a trusted partner for organizations undergoing digital transformation while promoting the safe and responsible use of AI. Accenture has around 799,000 employees worldwide and combines its technology platforms, industry knowledge, and strong partner network to deliver business solutions.

Through its Reinvention Services, Accenture provides expertise in areas such as cybersecurity, digital transformation, finance, supply chain, engineering, talent management, AI, data analytics, and technology. These services help organizations improve performance and achieve measurable business results.