• Shared Services

• Organizations implement shared services for a number of reasons. Cost reduction is one of the most prominent. Accurate transaction level data that receives buy-in throughout the organization is key to the success of reducing costs through shared services.

• With Acorn System's Cost Analyzer you can:

• • Measure best practice cost per individual transaction-level output of shared service
    activities both within the organization and externally. This granularity enables you to identify and
    address instances of cost overages and to pinpoint opportunities to reduce costs by better
    managing capacity.
• • Identify shared service opportunities across the organization by documenting duplication of
    activities across divisions, departments and facilities.
• • Accurately charge back shared service costs at the transaction level. This provides the
    customers of these shared services with an undeniably accurate understanding of their
    shared services cost allocations and how they can reduce those allocated costs and operate
    in a more efficient manner.
• • Accurately plan for, allocate, and track front office and back office resources to
    business objectives. Set and implement transfer pricing with greatly increased accuracy,
    ease and efficiency. Allocate indirect cost and back office expense down to the individual line
    item and transaction level for greater accountability and accuracy in charge-back pricing.

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