Featured Customer Success Stories

Financial Services

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• • Acorn Perfects Charles Schwab's Homegrown Profitability System
  • Charles Schwab's management team wanted to replace an 11-year old home-grown profitability program with one that would be an effective business instrument -- a profitability application that would provide credible data, timely reporting, clear accountability, profitability targets, and a link to compensation.
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• • Acorn Enables Accurate Allocation of Shard IT Services Costs
  • Using the Acorn Systems Solution, the IT department of one of the world's largest financial services companies has been able to centralize costing information with confidence in the numbers. By globally aligning IT services, Acorn's solution provides the means to benchmark internal service costs, resulting in the true costs of various IT services across all regions worldwide.

Retail

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• • Lowe’s Implements Acorn Systems’ Profitability Analysis and Improvement Solution
  • "Acorn Systems' solution gives us even greater visibility into the profitability of our individual stores and products we sell," said Steve Stone, Lowe's senior vice president and chief information officer. "Acorn's ability to bring expertise in retail and activity-based costing was critical to a successful implementation, and the Microsoft-based solution has been able to scale to meet the needs of our fast-paced retail environment."
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• • Large U.S. discount retailer
• • Large U.S. Discount and General Merchandise Retailer Reduces Supply Chain Costs
  • A general merchandise retailer wanted to reduce vendor costs in its supply chain. Accurate product profitability information provided by Acorn Systems gave the retailer the leverage it needed to renegotiate prices with suppliers.
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Consumer Product Goods

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• • Coca-Cola Bottlers of Turkey
  • Coca-Cola Bottlers of Turkey implements Acorn Systems' Profitability Analysis and Improvement Solution
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• • Food Distributor Increases Profits in the Face of Declining Revenues
  • Conco Food Service used the Acorn Systems solution to discover and eliminate unprofitable services resulting in an overall profit margin increase of 150% while revenues dropped 9%.
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• • Banta Foods Increases Profits by 43%
  • Using Acorn's profit improvement software, Banta Foods was able to view valuable details on customer and vendor profitability. Actions taken on these results increased annual profits by 43% and opportunities were identified to capture an additional 25% increase.
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• • Acorn's Profitability Solution Enables J&B Wholesale to "Put Their Finger on the Cost of Doing Business"
  • For a company built on traditional sales principles, a cost-centric approach was a radically new idea. Acorn's profitability solutions pinpointed exactly how much doing business cost J&B Food and taught them how to evaluate areas of their business.
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Manufacturing

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• • Semiconductor Manufacturer Relies on Acorn to Understand Profitability
  • Because of Acorn's efficient and timely capture of data, real-time management decisions can now be made to improve the organization's performance. As with all high-tech companies, Fairchild uses internal metrics to justify the purchase of their systems. Acorn Systems met the internal ROI requirements of these measurements.
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• • A Profitability Management Success Story
  • A manufacturing powerhouse, Assan Aluminum is deeply interested in how to create maximum value with available capacity while maximizing capacity utilization. Acorn’s costing and profitability system enabled Assan to optimize product sales and their manufacturing mix based on profitability by accurately calculating the cost of producing each product.
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Distribution

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• • Sysco Foods Uses Acorn Systems to Optimize Profitability
  • Sysco Foods has had 20 consecutive quarters of profitable growth and was named by Fortune Magazine the #1 Wholesaler in financial soundness, use of corporate assets, innovativeness and quality of management.

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• • Fisher Scientific Looks to Acorn for Profitability Improvement
  • Fisher Scientific uses Acorn Systems to optimize the profitability of the more than 600,000 products that the company distributes to over 350,000 customers in 145 countries.

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• • Acorn's Consumer Centric Solutions Have Helped Change the Way Peregrine Operates
  • Peregrine Outfitters should receive 100% ROI from their investment in Acorn's solution within the first year. They should also gain an additional 50% to 100% increase in profits next year.
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