Profit Improvement Solutions for Retail
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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.
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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:
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• Supply chain costing and efficiencies
• Capacity planning and staffing models
• Corporate Performance Management
• Profitability measurement and improvement
• SKU Rationalization
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Measure and take action in today's dynamic environment-
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- How Retail 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. the consumer is more empowered and demanding than before. distribution channels are blending and morphing. and pressure is greater than ever to deliver value and strong financial results.
New Solutions- 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. Acorn provides whatever view retailers need at the required 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.
- • Move beyond traditional approaches focused on volume-based revenue generation or gross margin to true cost, net profitability and a collaborative supply chain.
- • Define a measurement system to bridge the needs of the executive suite, finance, merchandising, operations, marketing and supply chain.
- • 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 being a retailer again, delivering value for your customers, business partners, and shareholders
The Winning Approach- The capabilities of Acorn Systems' Profit Improvement Solutions for retailers are unlike any others. They are highly scalable, flexible and verifiably accurate. Just as important is our knowledge and expertise, which we use to develop new strategies and value capture solutions for retailers.
- 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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- Acorns solution enhances Retailers business intelligence capabilities
with real-time access to the key metrics and analytics that drive
- profitability.
- Brian Scott
VP Retail & Hospitality Industry Group
Microsoft Corp
Technology Features & Benefits Enterprise Performance Suite
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