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Acorn Capability and Value
How can a measurement tool help and why is it important?
• Reduce current supply chain costs by 3-5% – make proactive rather than reactive decisions
• Monetize the supply chain – negotiate and change supplier/customer decision behaviors
• Decrease working capital – minimize inventory, maximize accounts payable terms, and improve the cash flow of your supply chain
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Global and domestic product sourcing can be difficult if not impossible to evaluate in a timely manner. With so many trade-deal funding opportunities, logistical processes, transportation issues and mandatory regulations, predicting the profitability of a flow for a product is nearly impossible without a solid measurement solution.
Acorn Systems Supply Chain Analyzer™ uses actual cost drivers and process rates from your company's transactional systems to simulate the entire supply chain. Supply Chain Analyzer can be easily configured to accurately reflect the most profitable flow path. What-if scenarios can be evaluated side by side to decide proactively which logistical and operational decision is the most profitable. The insight created by Acorn Supply Chain Analyzer enables you to confidently negotiate with your trading partners
because all the numbers you need are at your disposal.
Acorn Capability |
Value to You |
| Easily organize and simulate complex supply chain processes from beginning to end |
Time to value is minimized by implementing a pre-built supply chain solution |
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| Pick and choose supply chain processes rates by supply route using drop down menus |
Make real time profit decisions by simulating flow paths quickly while negotiating on the telephone |
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| Import and edit supply chain rates from existing legacy systems or use Acorn’s process modeling engine to develop new rates |
Leverage data already created from existing systems or integrate with Acorn’s world class costing engine |
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| Play “what-if” scenarios to compare multiple flow paths of products |
Compare the flow of products through different supply chain routes to make the most profitable decision |
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| Scale to enterprise-wide data volumes, millions of records, terabytes of data |
Simulate unlimited combinations of products, processes and routes through the supply chain without loss of performance |
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| Create one version of the truth for supply chain profitability management |
Finance – Monitor the cost of capital component associated with the working capital consumed by the supply chain
Procurement – Negotiate on products, SKUs, and trade deal funding activities and terms before signing contracts
Supply Chain – Maximize efficiencies, monetize the supply chain, and eliminate unnecessary costs
Executive Management – Give C-level executives and LOB managers P&L responsibility with a |
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