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Acorn Capability and Value
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Accuracy.
Your model is validated by finance and operations. This ensures the accuracy of your cost-to-serve measurements. |
This complete and accurate view of cost-to-serve allows for better strategic, operational and tactical decisions around customer relationships.
Renegotiate contracts with your customers using facts. Analyze net profitability by customer and product segment to determine realistic pricing, including cost-plus estimating and bidding. Use this new insight to make better contracting and pricing decisions.
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Determine Top/Bottom Profit Performers.
• Customer
• Product / SKU
• Vendor
• Order
• Segment
Other Dimensions
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Create and execute clear, concise profit improvement strategies:
• Determine which customers/products are adding value and which are destroying wealth.
• Negotiate vendor and customer contracts more effectively.
• Use all dimensions to make the right decision (i.e., don’t eliminate an unprofitable product if only purchased by your most profitable customer – loss leader).
Create company policies to maximize profitability (i.e. minimum orders).
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Unlimited “What-if” Scenarios.
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Validate process improvement strategies and future profits by changing model drivers.
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Actionable Reports.
Develop operational profit and loss statements by any desired dimension. |
Insight for reflects true variability in the cost - to -serve and net profitability of each customer and vendor. High performance ensures your insight is ready in short order so you can act.
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Enterprise Scalability & Performance.
Un-paralleled scalability to perform cost and profitability calculations for every customer, product and vendor in your enterprise - in a short time period. |
Insight for reflects true variability in the cost - to -serve and net profitability of each customer and vendor. High performance ensures your insight is ready in short order so you can act. |
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Unified Model.
A unified model links customer cost and profitability to other critical dimensions of your business (channel, segment, org, transaction, order, product, etc.). |
Fewer models to maintain and link together using 3rd party applications means a lower TCO for you, You need less people, processing time and 3rd party systems/software.
Easily model indirect costs to supply chain processes. Determine and use real net profitability information instead of gross margins to make profit decisions.
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Flexibility.
Customers and products are diverse. Acorn provides a flexible solution that accommodates this diversity. |
Acorn has baseline solutions for customer and product profitability modeling, yet collaborates to understand the unique requirements for your organization, ensuring you can understand and action key drivers. |
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