• Supply Chain Optimization

• VPs of Supply Chain use Acorn Systems Profit Analyzer™ to Drive Costs out of the Supply Chain

• Acorn Systems Profit Analyzer™ uses actual cost drivers from your company's transactional systems to accurately measure enterprise-wide cost per case and other costing metrics and provides detailed end-to-end Supply Chain costing so you can standardize process-costing metrics across your enterprise and operating companies. This fully automated, holistic view enables root cause analysis of what makes one supplier more profitable than another and how win-wins can be created in improving supplier profitability and taking cost out of the supply chain. Acorn Systems Profit Analyzer removes subjectivity and enables companies to select products and suppliers based on quality, net cost and fulfillment. Here are some of the ways that companies are using Acorn Systems to take cost out of the Supply Chain, creating a win-win for the company and its suppliers.

• Acorn Systems enables value chains to operate more cost efficiently

• • Improve supplier negotiations with detailed product and supplier scorecards
• • Standardize and systematize product and supplier measurement
• • Rank vendors and products based on profitability
• • Make an accurate assignment of redistribution center costs to operating companies
• • Trace redistribution center cost through the entire Supply Chain
• • Measure multiple cost drivers, such as number of cases, unload/drive time, POs
• • Accommodate differing cost basis's, such as Labor, fuel, and utilities
• • Validate actual cost from the company's income statement with operational data
• • Provide wide distribution through the intranet of actionable Supply Chain reports
• • Automated and objective supplier categorization, such as Gold, Silver, Top 100
• • Precisely negotiate earned income by product, product category and supplier
• • Identify the true low cost provider by comparing product net costs
• • Account for inventory holding costs by product by supplier
• • Account for un-saleable products by product by supplier
• • Identify enterprise-wide cost per case and other costing metrics

• Related Resources

• CPG Companies Reduce Supply Chain Costs and Everyone Wins
• Jack Haedicke, Arena CG
• To remain competitive in the grocery, retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, retailers and wholesalers seek to offer more value to consumers. The most successful merchants provide quality goods at low prices by removing costs from the supply chain. Leading manufacturers have responded by implementing trading practices that benefit the retailer as well as themselves.
• » Read Whitepaper

• Building the Profit Focused Supply Chain: A Game Plan for Capturing Real Value
• Steven R. Anderson and Leland Putterman
• Profit Focused Supply Chain Management allows high level visibility into supply chain performance and enables a company to take a much more granular approach to its supply chain and analyze the inefficient process links that drive the interaction and costs with its supply chain partners. Supply chain partners who have implemented Profit Focused Supply Chains can share not only their cost metrics (e.g. cost per drop) along process links (e.g. Delivery-Receiving), but also their process models. This allows them to understand how events are driving time spent and resource consumption by each company throughout its process links. Identifying these core process triggers in the supply chain can help align supply chain partners toward capturing enormous profit improvement.
• » Read Whitepaper

• Different Initiatives, Same Goal: How Retailers and CPG Manufacturers
  Can Reduce Net Landed Costs to Consumers
• By Jack Haedicke
• The hot business initiatives for today’s retailers and CPG manufacturers may differ but they all share a common goal: reducing net landed cost to the consumer. Learn how these often isolated supply chain and marketing initiatives can and should be linked through activity-based costing for maximum impact.
• » Read Whitepaper

• CPG Companies Reduce Supply Chain Costs and Everyone Wins
• Jack Haedicke, Arena CG
• To remain competitive in the grocery, retail and consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, retailers and wholesalers seek to offer more value to consumers. The most successful merchants provide quality goods at low prices by removing costs from the supply chain. Leading manufacturers have responded by implementing trading practices that benefit the retailer as well as themselves.
• » Read Whitepaper

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