Acorn Profit Improvement Solutions

Profitability. Our Passion, Your Solution

Industry Solutions: Moving Beyond the Traditional

• • Financial Services

  • To remain competitive, financial services organizations must have the ability to measure profitability at any level - product, customer, segment, channel, and branch. Any workable solution must be scalable and enterprise-wide.
  • Financial institutions use the Acorn Solution to make critical decisions
    in the areas of:
  • • Cost allocation and ABC/M
    • Operational performance and efficiency
    • Capacity planning and staffing models
    • Corporate Performance Management
    • Profitability measurement and improvement
    • IT value management and pricing
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• • Retail

  • For optimal decision making, today's retailers must have the ability to measure net profitability at any level - SKU, store, banner, customer segment, distribution channel, product categories, and vendors. Any workable solution must be scalable and enterprise-wide.
  • Acorn can provide whatever view retailers need at the required granularity to take action and make impactful decisions. Retailers use the Acorn Solution to make critical decisions in the areas of:
  • • Supply chain costing and efficiencies
    • Capacity planning and staffing models
    • Corporate Performance Management
    • Profitability measurement and improvement
    • SKU Rationalization
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• • Consumer Packaged Goods

  • Acorn's CPG customers leverage our best practices and advanced methodology to go beyond traditional cost and profitability approaches focused on volume-based revenue growth or gross margin analysis. We empower CPG companies with true cost to serve and net operating profit visibility. This drives profitable growth.
  • CPG companies use the Acorn solution to:
  • • Bridge the needs of diverse company functions (executive, finance, manufacturing, operations,
      supply chain, product development /management, sales/marketing, and IT)
    • Create a single view of the business from data residing in disparate systems, including SAP
    • Measure profitability across multi dimensions (SKU's, customers and channels)
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• • Manufacturing

  • Over 25 manufacturers world-wide have leveraged our best practices and advanced methodology to go beyond traditional cost and profitability approaches focused on volume-based revenue growth or gross margin analysis. We empower manufacturers with true cost to serve and net operating profit visibility. This drives profitable growth.
  • Acorn's advanced methodology and best-of-breed software has enabled manufacturers to:
  • • Gain meaningful insight from complex data across various ERP, GL, MRP and supply chain system
    • Measure profitability at any level - customer, segment, channel, product SKU, order, line item,
      facility, sales rep
    
  • As a result, manufacturers improve operational and financial performance.
  • Now executives from finance and operations have an accurate, timely view of the right information at the right level of granularity to take action and make impactful decisions.
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• • Distribution

  • Distributors from around the globe are struggling with growing competition, more demanding customers, vendors and suppliers, and pressures to deliver strong financial results. That's why over 80 distributors have selected the Acorn Solution to gain meaningful insight from complex data.
  • Leading distributors leverage the Acorn Solution for:
  • • Financial management and decision support
    • Cost allocation and ABC/M
    • Operational performance / efficiency
    • Supply chain costing and efficiencies
    • Corporate performance management
    • Profitability measurement and enhancement for customers, segments, channels, products,
      orders, line items and vendors
    • Customer pricing and contract renegotiation
    
  • As a result, manufacturers improve operational and financial performance.
  • Now executives from finance and operations have an accurate, timely view of the right information at the right level of granularity to take action and make impactful decisions.
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• • Additional Industries

  • In addition to the five core industries we serve, Acorn's Solution has helped organizations in many other industries to improve their performance. Why? The flexibility of Acorn's Solution makes it easily adaptable to virtually any industry and any performance improvement business initiative. Acorn's Solution is particularly helpful for organizations that are complex, with many dimensions such as divisions, segments, products, customers, channels and processes.
  • • Automotive
    • Chemicals
    • Electronics
    • Food and Beverage
    • Life Sciences and Pharmaceutical
    • Logistics
    • Outsourcers
    • Public Sector - Military and Education

• • Solutions for Business Initiatives

  • Acorn's solution provides the critical insight to effectively implement any performance management initiative in your industry. It provides accurate, actionable information at the level you need - from enterprise-wide to the lowest level of detail. This enables you to clearly identify where you are making and losing money and why. Our solution also helps you identify the root cause, so you can drive performance improvements in your business.
  • • Corporate Performance Management
    • IT Value Management
    • Customer Profitability
    • Cost to Serve
    • Product Profitability
    • Activity Based Costing/Management
    • Economic Profit
    • Supply Chain Optimization
    • Six Sigma

• • Technology Features and Benefits

  • Acorn Systems provides high-quality, accurate, role-based business analytics to key decision makers within the company.
  • Acorn offers a fully scalable, enterprise-class suite of products designed for large models and enormous data sets.
  • Acorn's advanced technology empowers decision makers with:
  • • Role-based visualization and custom dashboards
    • Verifiable Accuracy
    • Sustainability, Scalability and Security
    • Robust Architecture and Flexible Integration
    • Quick time to value and low TCO
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• • Acorn Consulting

  • Acorn provides world class management consulting and implementation services to help you maximize the usability of our software, reduce your excessive costs and capture your hidden profits. We are there for you before, during and, after implementation to help you capture the value, and on an ongoing basis.
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