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Acorn Software Solutions: Core Products
Acorn’s world-class solutions begin with one of three core platforms: Acorn Performance Analyzer ®, Acorn Cost Analyzer ® or SAP Business Profitability Management by Acorn (SAP BPM). All three platforms are similar in design, structure and value created but are specifically tailored to meet key customer system requirements and market demands. These platform solutions create new enterprise-wide performance measurement content for every dimension of your company’s revenues, costs, net profits, and capacity utilization. The output from these powerful applications gives you visibility into where you are making and losing money and why
Applications
• Acorn Performance Analyzer
• Acorn Cost Analyzer
Acorn Performance Analyzer®
Acorn Performance Analyzer creates new enterprise-wide performance measurement content for every aspect of your company’s revenues, costs, net profits, and capacity utilization. The output from this powerful application gives you visibility into where you are making and losing money and why, across every dimension, in a single model:
• Customer, channel, and segment
• Product, SKU, product class, product category
• Vendor or supplier
• Order, line item, or transaction
• Business unit, location, branch, facility
Acorn Performance Analyzer delivers
• Verifiable accuracy, both financially and operationally
• Enterprise-wide scalability
• Flexibility in modeling methodologies and integration - applies to inbound data and outbound results
• Sustainability
• Low total cost of ownership
Acorn Performance Analyzer can also generate economic profit. This allows users to:
• Define gross and net profit adjustments
• Customize the P&L statement
• Manage direct costs and revenues from a single module
Economic profit functionality provides increased control over the costs and credits on P&L statements, including the capability to create customized net profit adjustments such as taxes, depreciation, capital charges, and amortization.
Economic profit functionality also includes built-in support for essential economic data, including NOPBT and NOPAT.
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Acorn Cost Analyzer®
Acorn Cost Analyzer uses all the functionality of Acorn Performance Analyzer without the revenue analysis components and features needed for profitability.
• Cost Analyzer is Acorn's performance management tool for shared services, the public sector, and not-for-profit organizations.
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• It uses Acorn's unique three-way validation approach to ensure that costs and variances are accurate financially, operationally, and
capacity-wise. Managers throughout the organization can create and access a wide variety of graphical and dimensional reports to
manage budgets and staffing needs with the Acorn data.
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• Cost Analyzer's focus on costs and key performance indicators (KPIs) often results in a simpler model with quick time-to-value. Cost
Analyzer is ideal as a departmental or exploratory solution, with an easy step-up to full Acorn Performance Analyzer capabilities.
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