• Profit Analytics

• Profitability Analytics from Acorn Systems help executives make strategic and operational decisions with confidence.
  
  Profit Analytics are being used more in corporations as they become more accurate and actionable. This is why Acorn Systems Profit Analyzer is the leading profitability analytics solution. The Acorn solution is so advanced it provides the largest enterprises with accurate net profitability for each transaction, order, SKU, product, customer, customer segment and supplier. This precision and accuracy is key to the use of Profit Analytics in strategic and operational decisions.
• Many Acorn Systems customers have changed their sales compensation plans to be based on net profit dollars generated, rather than revenue. Their reason? They wanted to focus on increasing their profit dollars. For the first time, they had the accuracy they needed to confidently base compensation on the sales executives' profitability.
• Acorn's accurate and timely reporting of Profitability Analytics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) makes it possible for executives to make strategic and operational decisions with confidence. Companies are able to identify ways to increase profit and operate more efficiently. They have the information they need to negotiate effectively and improve customer and supplier profitability.

• Related Resources

• Profit Management in a High Transaction Volume Environment
• Steve Anderson, Founder Acorn Systems
• Growing the business through more branches, more stores, more students, and more planes increases revenue and the likelihood of survival. But this comes at a price. All of this new business increases complexity. High transaction volume companies have been forced to decide between two unacceptable trade-offs: (1) take an aggregate view; or (2) create separate spreadsheets / models for each location. Fortunately, there is now another option. With Time-Driven ABC, Companies no longer have to dumb down their analysis. They can now build massive, enterprise-wide models that incorporate all departments and processes.
• » Read Whitepaper

• Product Profitability: How to Perfect SKU Rationalization
• Steve Anderson, Founder Acorn Systems
• Better product management is not just about getting the right products to the right customers profitably. It is also about making sure you don’t have what you don’t need. Optimizing your product mix becomes increasingly complex in a world of fast development cycles, short product lives, diverse customer segments, a myriad of channels, and intense global competition. As a first step, your organization needs to understand where it is making money.
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• A Balanced Scorecard Approach to Measure Customer Profitability
• By Robert S. Kaplan, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge Article
• Customer profitability metrics provide a link, otherwise missing, between customer success and improved financial performance. In this article, professor and Balanced Scorecard guru Robert S. Kaplan introduces BSC Customer Profitability Metrics. From Balanced Scorecard Report.
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• Building the Profit Focused Supply Chain: A Game Plan for Capturing Real Value
• Steven R. Anderson and Leland Putterman
• Profit Focused Supply Chain Management allows high level visibility into supply chain performance and enables a company to take a much more granular approach to its supply chain and analyze the inefficient process links that drive the interaction and costs with its supply chain partners. Supply chain partners who have implemented Profit Focused Supply Chains can share not only their cost metrics (e.g. cost per drop) along process links (e.g. Delivery-Receiving), but also their process models. This allows them to understand how events are driving time spent and resource consumption by each company throughout its process links. Identifying these core process triggers in the supply chain can help align supply chain partners toward capturing enormous profit improvement.
• » Read Whitepaper

• Drive Growth with Customer Profitability Management
• Dr. Robert S. Kaplan, Harvard Business School and Steve Anderson, Acorn Systems
• This innovative new whitepaper outlines how Time-Driven Activity Based Costing delivers on the promise of ABC to help companies improve their bottom line.
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• Customer Profitability Measurement and Management
• Dr. Robert S. Kaplan and V. G. Narayanan, Harvard Business School
• This whitepaper examines how companies can substantially increase profits by precisely measuring customer profitability and analyzing customer-specific profit information to identify and grow their most profitable customers, implement business changes that increase the profit contribution of their average-performing customers, and improve the profit of the worst-performing segments.
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