Distribution and Logistics Business Value

Business Value

Insight into
• Supplier Profitability
• Customer Profitability
• Product Profitability
• SKU Rationalization
• Fact-based Contract Negotiations
• Menu Based Pricing / Product & Service Pricing
• Operational Efficiency - process changes, benchmarking, capacity utilization
• Supply Chain Costing and Profitability

Accurate cost-to-serve analysis provides insight for
• True cost of value-add and non-value-add services
• True cost of targeted campaigns
• Product rationalization
• Increasing profitable customers/products and decreasing those that are unprofitable
• More effective pricing

Better decision support
• Cost transparency
• Capacity and resource management
• Better reporting and dashboards

More effective operations
• Understand process costs
• Accurately measure performance and efficiency
• See how to mitigate operational risk

How Distribution and Logistics Companies use Acorn solutions

Financial
• Financial Management and Decision Support
• Cost Allocation
• ABC/M

Operational
• Operational Performance/Efficiency
• Supply Chain Costing and Efficiencies
• Process Modeling and Costing
• Capacity Planning & Staffing Models

Strategic
• Corporate Performance Management
• Profitability Measurement and Enhancement
• Customer Profitability/ Customer Segmentation
• Channel Profitability & Costs
• Product Profitability & Costs
• Order & Line Item Profitability & Costs
• Customer Pricing & Contract Renegotiation

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The software has already paid for itself 10 times over. In this tight economy, we have seen revenue drop 9%, while our profit margin increased 150%. I attribute 90% of that increase to Acorn.
Pete Algero CFO, Conco Food Service

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Quick Links: Growing Revenues Profitably I Reducing Costs I Improving Operational Efficiencies I Retail I Consumer Products
Manufacturing I Distribution and Logistics I Customer profitability I Product profitability I Vendor profitability