Profit Improvement Solutions For Distributors
- 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:
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• Financial management and decision support
• Cost allocation
• Activity Based Costing / Management
• Operational performance / efficiency
• Supply chain costing and efficiencies
• Process modeling and costing
• Capacity planning and staffing models
• Corporate performance management
• Profitability measurement and enhancement
• Customer profitability / customer segmentation
• Channel / product / order / item profitability and costs
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Measure and take action in today's dynamic environment-
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- How Distribution Companies use Acorn solutions
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- Financial
- • Financial Management and Decision Support
- • Cost Allocation
- • ABC/M
- Operational
- • Operational Performance/Efficiency
- • Supply Chain Costing and Efficiencies
- • Process Modeling and Costing
- • Capacity Planning & Staffing Models
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- Strategic
- • Corporate Performance Management
- • Profitability Measurement and Enhancement
- • Customer Profitability/ Customer Segmentation
- • Channel Profitability & Costs
- • Product Profitability & Costs
- • Order & Line Item Profitability & Costs
- • Customer Pricing & Contract Renegotiation
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- Profitable Revenue Growth (PRG)
- • Product, Customer & Channel Profitability
- - Channel (Sales/Distribution) Optimization
- - Pricing
- - Strategic Cross-Sell
- - Line of Business/Segment
- - Customer Visibility
- • Account
- • Ship To
- • Customer
- • Segment
- • Product Strategies
- - SKU Rationalization
- - Product & Service Pricing
- Reducing Operating Expenses
- • Reengineering & Process Redesign
- • Continuous Improvement Monitoring
- • Internal & External Benchmarking
- • Business Process Measurement & Analysis
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- Strategic Initiatives
- • Performance Management
- - Planning & Forecasting
- - Benchmarking
- - Balanced Scorecard/KPIs
- - Driver-Based Planning
- • Profit Simulation
- Financial Integrity
- • Segment, Channel, Category Profitability Reporting
- • Forecast Impact of Changes (Simulation)
- • Single Version of the Truth
- • Transparency
- • Accuracy & Auditability
- Optimize Return on Capital (ROC)
- • Resource & Capacity Planning & Utilization
- • Planning/Resource Management
New Rules- The pace of change is in overdrive. the competition is growing. your business customers are more empowered and demanding than before . the way people do business is changing. . vendor/supplier pressures coupled with customer service demands are pressuring your bottom line... differentiation is more difficult than ever. and pressure to deliver value and strong financial results is at its peak.
New Solutions- How do today's distributors determine where to focus and how to execute? By gaining meaningful insight from complex data.
- Give your organization the ability to measure profitability at any level - customer, segment, channel, product sku, vendor, order, line item, facility, sales rep- and improve operational and financial performance.
- Financial executives and operations must have an accurate, timely view of the right information at the right level of granularity to take action and make impactful decisions.
A Better Way- No excuses, no compromises.
- Measure your business and empower your decision-making in a manner not previously possible.
- Leverage the Best Practices of Acorn and over 80 Distributors to move beyond traditional approaches focused on volume-based revenue g growth or gross margin analysis to true cost and net operating profit based growth and profitability.
- Define a measurement system to bridge the needs of the executive suite, finance, operations, logistics, sales and marketing and IT.
- Leverage data from the disparate systems in your enterprise to create a single view of the business.
- Create a sustainable solution so you can get back to the business of supplying products and world class services again, delivering value for your customers, business partners, and stakeholders.
The Winning Approach- Acorn Systems' Profit Improvement Solutions for Distributors are unlike any others available today in terms of capability, flexibility, accuracy, and scalability. Yet perhaps more important is the knowledge and expertise we have gathered to develop new strategies and value capture solutions for Distributors.
- Together, we work as a team to understand your business and how best to drive real, sustainable profit improvement.
- Operationalize your financials. -- Our passion, your solution.
At Acorn Systems, we don't tell you how to define success;
we just show you where to find it.-
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- • Believable
- • People use it
- • Buy-in is key
- • Sarbanes Oxley
- • Verifiable
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- • Analysis with Context
- • Root cause identified
- • Incentives
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Operational and Functional validation
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- Acorn showed us that we were losing money on close to 70% of our orders By incorporating their quoting system, we now are profitable
- for the first time in 5 years
- Dennis Floro, CEO, Wilson Mohr
Technology Features & Benefits Enterprise Performance Suite
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