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  • 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.

  • Activity Based Costing / Management

  • We offer the world's most flexible, accurate, and scalable ABC offering. Our solution is also secure and easy to implement.
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  • Balanced Scorecard

  • The goal of a successful Balanced Scorecard is to effectively align strategy with execution, and to do so with measurable and quantifiable metrics. Acorn provides both financial and operational metrics to feed your Balanced Scorecard. In fact, Balanced Scorecard co-creator, Dr. Robert Kaplan, serves on Acorn's Board of Directors, and has been the thought leader behind the integration of Acorn's insight with the Balanced Scorecard.
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  • Business Intelligence

  • Business Intelligence enables organizations to make more informed business decisions. Companies with superior Business Intelligence are more agile and have greater ability to forecast and realign resources than competitors who lack this level of visibility.
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  • Contract Management

  • Acorn adds the dimension of contract cost and profitability to any contract management initiative. We have the unique ability to measure the revenues, costs, profits, and all underlying components of your contracts. This provides you with visibility into the root cause of inefficiencies and underperforming aspects of the contract. As a result, you can take profit-seeking actions.
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  • Corporate Performance Management

  • As Gartner states, ABC is a critical foundation for any CPM solution. Acorn provides ABC, profitability measurement and insight, resource capacity and utilization metrics, and essential driver information to create your CPM foundation. Further, we help you to use this insight via business intelligence and visualization, including dashboards, scorecards, reporting, and drill-down analytics.
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  • Cost Allocation

  • Some companies' cost allocation needs are quite simple, and some are complex. The flexibility of Acorn's modeling capabilities enables you to perform the right level of cost allocation for your needs. While you might start with cost allocations, the same application from Acorn will enable you to continue the journey of performance measurement while preserving your cost allocation investment.
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  • Cost Analysis

  • Cost analysis involves examining business costs from many angles, including cost allocation, cost benefit analysis and cost effectiveness analysis. Organizations that perform cost analysis want to better understand the consumers of cost, what drives cost, and how cost can be reduced while increasing efficiency.
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  • Cost Plus

  • If your goal is to offer cost plus pricing or contracts to your customers, Acorn can provide you with a powerful platform to measure the actual costs for each service, activity, or process. As a result, the accuracy of your pricing willl improve dramtically. Numerous Acorn clients have re-aligned their cost plus strategy – migrating from SWAGs and averages to more accurate and meaningful actuals – for improved bottom line results.
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  • Cost to Serve

  • We measure your customers' behaviors and the complexity in serving them. This "cost to serve" view across your entire supply chain allows you to price and service according to the facts, not gut feel.
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  • Customer Profitability

  • We enable you to view the actual profit of every customer, if that is the level that you need. In fact, we have clients who measure the customer profitability of over seven million accounts so that they can serve and segment them according to profitability.
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  • Customer Segmentation

  • Acorn's powerful solution and visualization capabilities help you view customer segmentation in a whole new light - with the critical dimension of net profitability. In addition to providing views into customer segmentation, we further enable you to see every customer that makes up the segment so you can get to root cause analysis.
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  • Direct Store Delivery Profitability

  • Many options exist for routing products from suppliers to customers, including direct store delivery. Acorn has the experience and capability to allow you to measure the cost and profitability of these supply chain alternatives. You can maximize your efficiency, minimize your costs, and pass along the savings to your clients to build profitable market share.
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  • Economic Profit

  • If your needs include modeling the balance sheet and calculating the "cost of money", Acorn's Economic Profit application handles it.
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  • Enterprise Performance Measurement

  • Acorn enables you to measure any aspect of revenues, revenue adjustments, direct and indirect costs, and resource capacity utilization across your enterprise. In addition, we measure at any level of granularity that is important to you, and in a multi-dimensional way. So you benefit from both a depth and breadth of visibility.
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  • IT Value Management

  • Acorn has been chosen as the IT Value Management solution for some of the world's leading companies such as CitiGroup, Deutsche Bank, and Charles Schwab. Our solution delivers the scalability, transparency, turnaround, accuracy, and automation that demanding IT executives and their business customers require to increase service and effectiveness while minimizing costs.
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  • Market Basket Analysis

  • Market Basket Analysis is a sophisticated algorithm used to determine which goods and services are most frequently purchased together in a transaction. When conducting a Market Basket Analysis, companies use actual transaction information to examine purchasing patterns – did customers purchase milk with cereal, or installation services with a washer and dryer?
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  • Menu Based Pricing

  • Acorn's insight is routinely used by service providers to create accurate and profitable menu based pricing. Why? Because we measure every process, activity, cost and resource in your company to allow you to accurately charge for the valuable services you provide. Best of all, we do this with an automated and easy to sustain system, so you can focus on serving customers profitably.
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  • Operational Analytics

  • Operational Analytics are needed by retailers, branch banks, financial service institutions, grocers, and many other businesses for the customer-facing personnel who must make hundreds of business decisions on a daily basis. Equipping these decision makers with Operational Analytics tools, helps them to make more accurate and profitable choices by eliminating the “guesswork” from profitable decision-making situations.
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  • Order Management

  • An often overlooked aspect of order management is the perspective of order profitability. Are you making or losing money on your orders? Why? If you would like to know, and would like to incorporate this perspective into the way you do business, Acorn has the solution.
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  • Product Profitability

  • We help you view the total cost and profitability of every product or SKU in your enterprise. In fact, we have clients who measure the product profitability of over 600,000 SKUs, with both financial and operation validation.
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  • Profit Analytics

  • Any effective profitability initiative must clearly identify where you are making and losing money in your business and why. This insight must be both financially and operationally valid, and must identify the root cause. Acorn provides robust profit analytics that are scalable, accurate, and sustainable at a low TCO.
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  • Profit Optimization

  • Profit optimization takes many forms. However, every successful profit optimization initiative requires a flexible and accurate measurement and optimization solution. This will enable you to know where opportunities are and what the impact will be of your performance improvement. Whether it's optimizing pricing, service levels, cost-to-serve, internal process, or value chain relationships, Acorn provides the tools to enable profit optimization.
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  • Risk Management

  • An important element of risk management is knowing which assets of your company are truly fueling the bottom line profits of your company. Do you know which customers, products, services, or vendors are making and losing you money? Can you assess and create risk plans for your corporation's material assets if you don't have this visibility? Acorn provides this insight, enabling you to manage your risk.
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  • Six Sigma

  • Continuous improvement requires continuous and accurate measurement, and simply put,
    that's what we do.
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  • Sarbanes Oxley

  • Our customer, the CFO of a $2.3B corporation, describes how Acorn Systems assists with Sarbanes Oxley compliance.  Acorn operationalizes your financials, and gives you 100% visibility into every aspect of your revenue, cost, and profits – from any vantage point you desire.  Further, the information is organized in an auditable, actionable, and financially validated manner.
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  • Shared Services

  • Acorn has enabled leading F1000 companies in people-intensive businesses to achieve cost savings and productivity in shared services. The old adage that you cannot manage what you cannot first measure applies here. With Acorn, you gain visibility into the cost and capacity utilization of every process, resource, activity and service. This includes helping you pinpoint the variability inherent with each. The result?  You can manage shared services more effectively while collaborating with your business customers.
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  • Store Labor Management

  • Store Labor Management helps businesses to plan, budget, maintain and maximize the efficiency and performance of their workforce. Companies using Acorn Systems’ Profit Optimization solutions understand the drivers of cost and profit in Store Labor Management and how adjustments can be made to increase competitiveness in service levels, revenue and profit.
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  • Supply Chain Optimization

  • We allow you to see the cost of every process and sub-activity in your supply chain, from sourcing and vendors through receipt by your stores or customer. This insight allows you to optimize from the perspective of factual insight and costs.
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  • Value Chain Management

  • In order to effectively manage your value chain from end to end, you must have a robust measurement and management solution that will show you the facts. Acorn's platform is flexibly configured to incorporate 100% of your value chain so you can manage continuous improvement in context.
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  • Vendor Profitability

  • Not all vendor relationships are created equal – the way you conduct business with them, the product mix they supply, the pricing and discounts you are offered, and the financial relationship you maintain. Acorn has the capabilities and experience to help you measure every vendor from the perspective of revenues, revenue adjustments, costs, and profitability. In fact, we will help you pinpoint the areas of improvement that will drive more profitable relationships with them.
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    • Acorns Performance Analyzer tool helps us visualize our companys cost structure in an
      easy-to-understand model with a smooth flow of expenses all
    • the way to cost objects.
    • IT Director, Global 2000
      Aluminum Company
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