• Profit Optimization

• Profit optimization provides bottom-line profit increases of 3-5% of revenue. In some cases this can be an increase of more than 100% of profit, according to AMR Research, September 2001.
  
  In this current economic climate, executives are looking for IT investments with tremendous leverage. Profit optimization can deliver to that end.

• Transform masses of unmanageable data into decision making information

• Acorn Systems’ groundbreaking technological advances can transform masses of unmanageable profit measurement data into intelligent decision making information. Companies that want to become more efficient, effective and profitable use the Acorn solution.

• Acorn Systems' profit improvement software, revenue management software and revenue management solution helps:


   • Profit optimization
   • Revenue management
   • Price optimization
   • Contract management
   • Order management


• 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.
• » Read Whitepaper

• 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.
• » Read Whitepaper

• Profit-based Pricing Laying the Foundation for Your Pricing Strategy
• Steve Anderson, Founder Acorn Systems
• Companies today can select from several different complex approaches to price strategy. Some perform price waterfall analyses, others create intricate price matrices, and still others optimize revenue by using advanced mathematics. However, the reality is that most distributors rely on Cost Plus to set pricing. When tasked to improve margins, these distributors ask, “Is our plus enough?”
• » Read Whitepaper

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