Acorn solutions for SAP customers
SAP customers like you have confidently selected and successfully implemented Acorn as their trusted partner for profit improvement solutions.
In fact, SAP themselves selected Acorn’s best-of-breed solution as their global resale offering in 2007, prior to inheriting an ABC tool as part of their Business Objects acquisition.
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"CCI has gained a very important capability that will allow us to do multi-dimensional profitability analysis down to net operating profit level by any dimension such as sales center, area sales manager, sales developer, channel, SKU, customer, brand, and package."
Cenk Uzunoğlu, Turkey Finance Director, Coca-Cola Icecek
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If you are an SAP customer, you too can enjoy the best of both worlds: ERP, CRM, SCM and financial management applications from SAP, and the world’s leading performance measurement solutions from Acorn – integrated, automated, and proven. Yes, it’s possible to have your cake and eat it too. A partial list of marquee SAP customers who chose Acorn for their profit improvement includes: Cemex, TNT, Coca Cola Belgium, Coca Cola Icecek, Tech Data, Danisco, and BCD Travel.
How does Acorn’s solution fit into your SAP environment?
How do we make it easy and cost effective to leverage your investment in SAP?
What if you love your SAP offerings for what they do best (financials, ERP, CRM,), but want to migrate your SAP ABC, cost and profitability application to the best-of-breed offering from Acorn?
How is Acorn’s solution superior to SAP’s offerings for costing and profitability?
How does Acorn’s solution fit into your SAP environment?
If you are like most SAP customers, you have a variety of core applications from SAP:
• ERP
• Financials
• BW and BI
• Miscellaneous applications
• A variety of other vendors’ platforms which together comprise your global ERP, financials, core and departmental applications, and data/IT infrastructure
You are not alone. Acorn’s solution works with, and is agnostic to, the variety of source data systems, applications (ERP, financials, CRM, SCM, etc.), data warehouses/databases, and business intelligence platforms you have.
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How do we make it easy and cost effective to leverage your investment in SAP?
1. Data in: We leverage critical data from your SAP applications and/or SAP data warehouse (BW) into Acorn via automated extraction, transformation and load routines which "feed" Acorn. To make it simple to install and automated, we provide a packaged utility called the Acorn Universal Connector that makes it easy to get data into Acorn for cost and profit calculations. This utility is packaged with our core platform applications.
2. Acorn’s solution creates new insight into the revenue, cost, net profit and resource capacity utilization of any dimension of your business in a unified model.
3. Insight/data out: After Acorn calculates your new performance management insight, you can leverage your existing SAP data warehouse (BW) and BI platform(s) of choice – preserving your investment, training and user adoption of these offerings. Think about it this way. New insight created by Acorn enhances and "feeds" the repository of data already contained in your data warehouse. Or, you can leverage your rich Acorn insight with SAP’s BI solutions. We make it easy and automated to use your SAP BI offering for advanced analytics with our packaged solution: Acorn’s Advanced Analytics and the Advanced Analytics Connector for SAP.
4. Do you want a "closed loop" solution? You can run your budgets, plans, and forecasts through your Acorn model to determine the cost, profitability, and resource capacity necessary for your plans. Leverage the rich driver information and calculation capabilities in Acorn with your other performance management solutions, including budgeting, planning and forecasting.
5. Companies running SAP Price and Margin Management (PMM) by Vendavo will value the insight and content that Acorn provides to complete this solution, including: cost to serve, costing, and net profitability calculated at a transaction, account, customer, product, segment, channel, and organization level. As you may know, the SAP PMM solution does not calculate cost to serve or provide deep forensic costing and net profit insight. It relies on you to provide this insight.
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What if you love your SAP offerings for what they do best (financials, ERP, CRM,), but want to migrate your SAP ABC, cost and profitability application to the best-of-breed offering from Acorn?
We have a compelling offer for you. Acorn offers a safe-harbor migration and incentive program for companies who want to migrate their SAP cost and profitability offering(s) to Acorn.
• A quick time-to-value implementation: We will transform your existing SAP model via our migration methodology to quickly and effectively port it into Acorn. You decide from there. Do you leverage it as is, with the same functionality you had in SAP at a fraction of the total cost of ownership? Or do you enhance what you had by leveraging the unique capabilities of the Acorn solution, including transaction level "bottoms up" analysis; deep modeling complexity and accuracy across an unlimited number of the dimensions of your business; and increased automation and sustainability? Either way, your migration and/or enhancement will be smooth, using our proven SAP Migration Methodology and proven Profit Path Implementation Methodology™.
• An Incentive trade-in: We will provide you with a trade-in-credit for your SAP costing and profitability application, making your investment in Acorn more economical.
It’s that simple. We help you migrate – you benefit – and you save and improve.
To talk to an Acorn profit expert about how we can help you leverage your SAP solutions while adding bottom line profits via Acorn, click here.
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How is Acorn’s solution superior to SAP’s offerings for costing and profitability?
SAP’s legacy offerings (CO-PA, BCS SEM), the BO offering which came as part of a chain of acquisitions, and the new SAP Profitability and Cost Management Solution, have yielded several costing and profitability offerings.
Why is Acorn superior to the SAP Profitability and Cost Management offering?
1. SAP’s offering does not perform "bottoms-up" or transaction level costing and profitability analysis. Rather, SAP drives a "tops-down" approach for costing and profitability. Nor does SAP’s solution truly scale to your enterprise at a granular level of analysis. If you want transaction, order, account, customer, or product level analysis, SAP’s solution can’t help – Acorn’s can.
2. SAP’s offering does not provide an unlimited number of dimensions for costing and profitability analysis in a single unified model – such as account, customer, customer segment, channel, org, etc. You are limited to a few – and that limits your ability to drive profit improvement via root cause analysis and insight.
3. SAP’s offering was not architected to deliver the time-driven ABC (TDABC) methodology. Acorn’s solution was architected to accommodate a wide variety of methodologies including TDABC, a methodology we invented and wrote the book on.
4. SAP’s offering is not fully integrated to the "killer app" of choice for the masses in your organization, Microsoft Excel. Finance, operations, and executives in your company all know and use Excel. SAP’s cost and profit solution is not fully integrated to Excel. Ours is, and your users will love it.
5. SAP’s offering is not fully automated end to end (IT load calculate results/ reporting) – our solution is. Even if your IT folks love SAP they don’t love manual intervention requirements for any application. Acorn’s application is automated end to end from data load – to calculate – to results. It leverages the power of Acorn’s Universal Connector and proven Profit Path Methodology – providing IT the freedom that automation delivers.
6. SAP does not have the depth/breath of world-class experts in costing and profitability that Acorn does. In fact, no company does. Your success is as much about your partners’ expertise, proven methodologies, and best practices as it is the technology. Talk to the Acorn profit experts to experience the difference.
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