Retail Business Value

Initiatives

• Supplier Profitability
• SKU Rationalization
• Product Profitability
• Customer Segment Profitability
• Sourcing / Merchandising decisions (import/export, category management)
• Fact-based Contract Negotiations
• Market Basket Analysis
• Operational Efficiency - process changes, benchmarking, capacity utilization
• Supply Chain Costing and Profitability

Business Value

Better customer/product/vendor costing and profitability management through insight into NET profitability
• Accurate cost of supply chain activities and flow paths by product
• Tangible information for vendor negotiations
• Information that employees will understand and can act on
• A way to get procurement, distribution and operations working together
• An accounting of trade deal funding and inside margin at the item level
• True profitability of targeted campaigns
• SKU rationalization
• Increasing profitable customers/segments/products and decreasing those that are unprofitable
• More effective pricing at the retail shelf, including the support of price optimization
• Benchmarking labor utilization

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

More effective operations
• Understand process costs
• Accurately measure performance and efficiency
• Effective capacity planning

How Financial Service 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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Acorn Systems' solution gives us even greater visibility into the profitability of our individual stores and products we sell. 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.
Steve Stone Sr Vice President, CIO, Lowe’s

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Manufacturing I Distribution and Logistics I Customer profitability I Product profitability I Vendor profitability