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Acorn Systems Profit Improvement Solutions for Consumer Packaged Goods

Acorn Systems Profit Improvement Solutions for Consumer Packaged Goods
Acorn's CPG customers leverage 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 CPG companies with true cost to serve and net operating profit visibility. This drives profitable growth.

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Acorn's CPG customers leverage 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 CPG companies with true cost to serve and net operating profit visibility. This drives profitable growth.

CPG companies use the Acorn solution to:

  • Bridge the needs of diverse company functions (executive, finance, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, product development /management, sales/marketing, and IT).
  • Create a single view of the business from data residing in disparate systems, including SAP.
  • Measure profitability across multi dimensions (SKU's, customers and channels).

Measure and take action in today's dynamic environment

How CPG Companies use Acorn solutions

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
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
Customer Benefits

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
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 partners and end consumers 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 CPG Companies 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. - 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 our CPG Clients 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.
  • Bridge the needs of diverse company functions (executive, finance, manufacturing, operations, supply chain, product development /management, sales/marketing, and IT).
  • Create a single view of the business from data residing in disparate systems.
  • 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
The capabilities of Acorn Systems' Performance Solutions for CPG companies 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 CPG companies. 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

Click Here To Download:
•Product Brochure: Acorn Systems Enterprise Performance System
•Product Sheet: Acorn Systems Price Analyzer
•Product Brochure: Acorn Systems Ez OLAP