Profit Improvement Solutions for Manufacturers
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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 systems.
- • 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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Measure and take action in today's dynamic environment-
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- How Manufacturers 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
& "Cost To Serve"
- • 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
- - Cost To Serve
- • Product Strategies
- - SKU Rationalization
- - Product & Service Pricing
- Reducing Operating Expenses
- • Reengineering & Process Redesign
- • Continuous Improvement Monitoring
- • Supply Chain Measurement and Optimization
- • 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. . your cost of people resources, materials, and capital expenses coupled with customer service demands are pressuring your bottom line......differentiation is more difficult than ever in the global economy. and pressure to deliver value and strong financial results is at its peak.
New Solutions- How do today's manufacturers 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, order, line item, facility, sales rep, etc. - 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 25 Manufacturers to move beyond traditional approaches focused on volume-based revenue 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, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, product development and management, 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 making and 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 manufacturers 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 manufacturers.
- Together, we work as a team to understand your business and how best to drive real, sustainable profit improvements.
- 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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- Its vital to understand costs and profitability in our business at the combination of Customer, SKU, Geography, and Usage Area dimensions. Acorn provides us this level of information accurately, helping us make strategic and operational decisions
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- CEO, Global 2000 Aluminum Company
Technology Features & Benefits Enterprise Performance Suite
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