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Acorn Capability and Value
Acorn provides insight that will enable you to answer questions such as:
• How much unused capacity do you have and what is that unused capacity costing you?
• Why are some locations/processes/activities less costly than other similar locations/processes/activities in your organization?
• How much capacity will you need by what functional role/process/activity based on the next period’s forecast?
• How much capacity will you need to execute your strategy and what will the resulting cost/profitability be?
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Accurate answers to these questions will enable you to operate at peak efficiency - optimizing staffing and capacity utilization – for today’s demand and tomorrows forecast. Getting this right directly impacts your cost structure and bottom line profitability.
Areas where most systems fall short
1. Current performance measurement systems do not generate an accurate view of resource capacity utilization by process – by activity – or by location.
2. The majority of activity-based costing systems in place today that measure capacity base their calculation rules on highly subjective percentages (%) which come from end user survey input.
3. Organizations that calculate and analyze resource capacity-utilization do so in a separate measurement system from their costing and profitability system. Operations typically owns capacity analysis, and finance owns the costing and profitability system.
4. Few organizations have enterprise-wide visibility into resource capacity utilization by process – by activity – by location, and very few have this measurement system integrally linked to their costing and profitability system, their planning and forecasting system, and their strategy execution system.
Acorn Capability |
Value to You |
Enterprise-Wide Resource Capacity Analytics Solution
Unparalleled scalability to perform operating efficiencies calculations for every business process – activity – location – product / service - inside Acorn’s application – and in a short time period. |
Insight reflects true resource time availability and time consumption. Your insight is ready when you need it.
Integrate your costing and “chargeback” process with your planning and forecasting processes – to create a closed-loop performance management solution creating transparency and efficiency between shared services and the business.
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Unified Model
All your resource capacity and utilization analytics are generated by the same application and methodology as your cost and profitability modeling solution – one unified solution for one version of the truth. |
There is one model, one system to maintain and run for all performance measurement insight. |
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Accurate Insight for Full Cost Transparency
Leverage the innovative and proven time-driven activity-based costing methodology to create the detail and accuracy you need for full capacity and cost transparency. |
Produce a detailed view of available and utilized capacity by process – by activity – by location for full actionable insight and cost transparency.
• Supports informed business conversations between internal clients and operations
• Gives operations the information they need to drive capacity rationalization and sourcing discussions to reduce costs
Enables activity-based planning, forecasting, and budgeting.
Use your cost and capacity insight to perform benchmarking by process , product and location.
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Low Total Cost of Ownership
Acorn’s solution automates the capacity utilization calculation, eliminating manual processes. Further, Acorn’s solution runs on industry standard hardware/software, eliminating costly proprietary systems costs. |
Lower annual cost-of-ownership to maintain and produce resource capacity utilization insight.
Fewer models to maintain and link together using 3rd party applications means a lower TCO for you.
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Domain Expertise
Acorn’s solution for staffing and capacity utilization is used by some of the world’s largest organizations. Our people are experts in this domain, and our knowledge is available to you via best practice and functional accelerators. |
Lowers your risk and ensures your success – on time, on scope, and on budget. |
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