• Profitability and Costing Whitepapers and Datasheets

• Acorn goes beyond conventional ABC, with our unique methodology and patent- pending technology we uniquely deliver next generation Activity Based Costing and Enterprise Performance Solutions that significantly reduce costs and increase profits for our customers.

• A sampling of whitepapers, datasheets and articles are included below. For a complete list, go to

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• Profit Improvement Whitepapers

• Optimizing Store Labor in Retail
• Steve Anderson, Founder Acorn Systems
• we believe that store labor is variable, and critical to focus on. Whenever there are retail departments with more than one employee, the retailer can flex staff levels in proportion to store activity. In other words, these multi-person departments can be construed as variable. This is exactly what Wal-Mart is trying to do. By tracking the number of customers within the store, it could quickly adjust staff levels on an hourly basis.
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• Profit Improvement Roadmap for Financial Service Companies
• Steve Anderson, Founder Acorn Systems
• What are leading financial service companies doing to improve their profits? A lot. This industry has become a poster child for enacting change. Given the huge volumes of transactions, the competency of their staffs, and their massive investments in information systems, financial services companies are capable of making change, and are poised to reap tremendous rewards.
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• A Profit Improvement Roadmap for Retail Banking
• Steve Anderson, Founder Acorn Systems
• The good news for retail banks is that they have a strong ability to get detailed cost, profit, and capacity information across their entire company. Advances in database technology, transaction systems, and activity-based costing have made it possible to do this quickly and painlessly. Banks we have worked with have done this in a matter of weeks. They leverage existing retail banking time-driven ABC templates to fast-track building their enterprise-wide ABC model. The journey just got a whole lot shorter.
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• A Profit Improvement Roadmap for Distributors
• Steve Anderson, Founder Acorn Systems
• What are leading distribution companies doing to improve their bottom line profits? During the past ten years, Acorn Systems1 has worked with over one hundred distribution companies in more than ten industry segments. While we would like to claim that all of these projects were universal successes, the fact is that some achieved more impact than others. What separates companies who achieved superior profit improvement from those who did not? The actions they took to improve profitability, based on the right insight.
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• Acorn Technology Datasheets

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• Enterprise Performance Suite
• Successful businesses grow their profits, year after year. To remain ahead, business leaders need better tools for modeling, measuring, and monitoring profitability. Tools with state-ofthe- art analytics that give timely, accurate visibility into multiple dimensions of business performance can be the key to increasing profitability and surpassing the competition.

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• Price Check
• More and more, companies are finding that they are generating revenue while racking up losses. Why is this happening? Often the answer goes back to pricing – a lack of pricing compliance. Prices are set based on many complex factors, but if the established pricing guidelines aren’t followed, profit margins can quickly turn into unprofitable sales.

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• Acorn Supply Chain Analyzer
• The ever increasing complexity and variability in today’s supply chains makes it imperative to understand the cost impact of product flow path alternatives. The supply chain cost leaders like Wal-Mart and Sysco Foods do. In fact, it gives them a price to consumer and net margin advantage over those who don’t.

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• Acorn Advanced Analytics for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition
• Acorn Advanced Analytics provides automated multidimensional access to calculated results for improved analysis and visualization. Acorn Advanced Analytics is designed to work on any Acorn cost model and uses Acorn metadata to determine the model structure, dimensions, hierarchies and measures.

 
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