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Founding members represent top executives from industry-leading companies in the FT Global 500. 

PHOENIX, Arizona – May 23, 2013 – Acorn, a leading provider of profitability and cost management solutions, today announced the formation of its Global Cost to Serve² (CTS²) Council. Announced at the Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference in Phoenix, AZ., founding members of the council represent top executives from industry-leading companies in the FT Global 500.

The CTS² Council provides a unique opportunity for business-focused executive education and collaboration. The objective of the council is to foster dialogue between forward-thinking industry leaders to share and learn best practices about the transformative role of cost to serve analysis. Members will be able to gain insight into cost to serve implementations, ask questions directly to other practitioners or product experts, and learn about new product capabilities.

Award Honors Leading Vendors with Most Innovative Supply Chain Solutions

HOUSTON, Texas – May 14, 2013 – Acorn, a provider of profitability and cost management solutions, today announced that Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine has named Acorn to its prestigious 2013 Supply & Demand Chain Executive 100 ("SDCE 100"). The award recognizes Acorn’s leadership in helping to provide its clients with accurate customer, supplier and item profitability insights to drive better business decisions and higher profitability.

Applauding Applied Best Practices for Profit Improvement & Cost Reduction

HOUSTON, TX – April 17, 2013 – Acorn, the leading provider of cost and profitability management solutions, today announced it has selected Cabela’s as its 2012 Customer of the Year and Unilever as its 2012 International Customer of the Year. The annual awards recognize Acorn customers with the most strategic and innovative use of Acorn’s software and solutions.

The award was announced and presented by Acorn’s Chief Marketing Officer, Jerome Patterson, at the company’s annual user group in Chicago, IL. "The companies selected this year have realized great value leveraging technology to create new and actionable intelligence,” said Patterson. “Both Cabela’s and Unilever have successfully applied Acorn’s best-practices to drive improved decisions, balancing financial results with serving their customers. We are honored to work with each of these companies.”

Association for Management Information in Financial Services (AMIfs) attendees will learn best practices for implementing and driving value from cost and profitability solutions
 

HOUSTON, Texas – April 4, 2013 – Acorn, a provider of profitability and cost management solutions, today announced that Robert Longden, vice president of professional services at Acorn, and Shaun McDevitt, senior business analyst at Firstrust Bank, will co-host “Cost and Profitability Solutions: Best Practices for Implementing and Driving Value” at the AMIfs Annual Conference. Scheduled for April 24-26, 2013, in Orlando, FL, the conference draws financial professionals from large, regional and community banks, thrifts and credit unions. 

HOUSTON, TX – March 20, 2013 – Acorn, a provider of profitability and cost management solutions and a Microsoft Managed Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner, today announced a new integrated solution for Microsoft Dynamics AX customers. Designed to drive even greater profitability and cost efficiency from their ERP investment, Acorn’s Total Profitability for Microsoft Dynamics AX is available immediately to Microsoft Dynamics AX resellers and customers.

Austin, Texas – February 19, 2013 – Acorn, a provider of profitability and cost management solutions for the healthcare industry, today announced Tom O’Brien as the new Senior Vice President of Healthcare. O’Brien joins Acorn as an established financial executive bringing over 25 years of healthcare finance experience to the leadership team.

Houston, Texas—October 22, 2012—Acorn Systems today announced it has launched Performance Analyzer 5G™ for Windows 8 and Windows RT, Microsoft’s highly-anticipated new version of its Windows operating system.

Acorn’s Windows 8 application is a natural extension of Acorn’s solutions to deliver deep and broad profitability and cost insights to today’s information workers. “Acorn is excited to launch our application for Windows 8 and Windows RT,” said Jerome Patterson, Chief Marketing Officer at Acorn. “We feel confident that the beautiful new design, cloud connectivity, great hardware and solid foundation of Windows 8 will provide a great experience with Performance Analyzer 5G.”

Lower costs, better product quality and quicker “time-to-market” pressures among factors that are leading U.S. manufacturing customers to consider the “Made in the USA” stamp

Houston, TX—October 3, 2012— After decades of relying on global manufacturing sourcing, many U.S. manufacturing firms are taking a closer look at reshoring – a term referring to manufacturing that was previously done in foreign countries and has been moved back to America.  According to an analysis by Acorn Systems, a leading provider for profitability and cost management solutions, 28 percent of its current manufacturing customers have saved an average of $23 million in annual costs from domestic sourcing.

Acorn Systems’ analysis shows that a major driver of the reshoring trend is the manufacturers’ customers themselves. One specialty retailer evaluated all its product categories and analyzed domestic versus import sourcing and then rationalized for lowest cost sources.  For many low dollar items, U.S. sourcing is actually more cost-effective when the total picture of all costs is included.  Acorn has observed both this indirect and direct evaluations resulting in demand for reshoring.

HOUSTON, TX—July 26, 2012—Longview Solutions and Acorn Systems today announced that Roswell Park Cancer Institute, America’s first cancer center founded in 1898, has selected Longview Profitability Analytics. Powered by Acorn Systems, the Longview Profitability Analytics solution will provide Roswell Park Cancer Institute with extensive insight into revenues, costs, margins, and operations, allowing the organization to make the optimal financial decisions needed to enhance the high standard of patient care the organization has long provided.

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HOUSTON BUSINESS JOURNAL - July 13-19, 2012
by MOLLY RYAN, Reporter

Growing up in Houston, Leland Putterman never thought about entering the technology field. Even while studying at Princeton, he only took one computer science course. Despite his lukewarm interest up to that point, Putterman launched a career in technology after college and has not looked back since.

Starting off at IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM) in Houston, Putterman moved on to Oracle Corp. (Nasdaq: ORCL) and BMC Software Inc. (Nasdaq: BMC) before becoming CEO of Houston’s Acorn Systems Inc., a profitability management software company.