• Enterprise Performance Management

• Enterprise Performance Management enables companies to identify and address areas of their business that are performing well and those that are not. Because only Acorn Systems provides accurate transaction level profitability information with a solution that offers rules-based enterprise wide access, Acorn Systems Economic Profit Analyzer is the foundation of a quantifiably successful Enterprise Performance Management solution. The key is the accuracy, enterprise-wide accessibility and usability of the Performance Measurement data.
  
  Because Acorn Systems Enterprise Performance Suite provides accurate transaction level profitability information by customer, order, product, supplier, facility, business process or any other resource you want profit data from, it enables
• More accurate and timely decision making by putting information into the hands of employees who can increase the company’s profits, when and where they need it.
• Measurement of employees, sales executives, routes, order takers, customers, products and suppliers on a net profit basis, so you can see what and who is increasing your profits and provide clearly understandable incentives to further increase profits. This measurement, analysis and profit improvement capability is a key element in successful Product Lifecycle Management and Supplier Relationship Management.
• Sharing of best practices and more accurate, more profitable and lower risk planning and budgeting decisions and smarter operational plans because the underlying information is accurate and highly accessible and useable.
• Faster and more cross functional decision making because accurate, actionable information is available enterprise-wide, making resource and strategic decisions quicker and easier with a greater level of precision.
• The accurate measurement of profitability – more important now than ever – at the transaction level by product, customer, channel, route, sales executive or by any other object by which you wish to have this data.

• Related Resources

• Using Business Performance Management to Create Value
• Larry Maisel, Adjunct Professor, Columbia University
• IT fi nancial management adds signifi cantly more value to the organization when it enables IT strategy execution and drives better operational decision-making instead of simply tracking expenses and balancing the budget. Larry presents the benefi ts of a closed-loop business performance management system that helps the IT fi nancial management team achieve this goal.
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• How complex does your performance measurement system need to be?
• Steve Anderson, Founder Acorn Systems
• Performance Measurement is a critical component to any successful Corporate Performance Management initiative. Over the years, there has been a lot of talk about the complexity of models developed to support these initiatives. In this paper, implementers of the new Time Driven approach describe four types of complexity that can exist in model implementations, how to minimize them and what an optimal
  solution looks like.
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• Customer Profitability Measurement and Management
• Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and V. G. Narayanan, Harvard Business School
• This whitepaper examines how companies can substantially increase profits by precisely measuring customer profitability and analyzing customer-specific profit information to identify and grow their most profitable customers, implement business changes that increase the profit contribution of their average-performing customers, and improve the profit of the worst-performing segments.
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• Changing the Way Companies Measure and Manage
• Leland Putterman, CEO Acorn Systems
• An insightful paper that discusses the best way to scale an organization profitably — by delegating decision-making to each level of the business.
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