Companies like yours focus on continuously optimizing profit and performance for stakeholders. These improvements include driving profitable revenue growth, reducing internal costs, improving efficiency, and driving profitable strategies for long-term sustainability. The challenge is to know where and why your company is making and losing money in specific dimensions – customers, products, channels, segments, and business units. Then you can drive continuous profit-improvement initiatives across these business dimensions.

The SAP Business Profitability Management application by Acorn provides your company with insight into where you are making and losing money across the enterprise – and why. You can use the application to drive better decision making by focusing on the best ways to leverage current and future SAP operational and financial transaction data. You can improve profits using operationally validated and auditable numbers – with triggers for improvement.

With the SAP Business Profitability Management application, you can pursue more profitable growth strategies from a fact-based, calculated decision-making perspective. And achieve higher profits, lower costs, and increased efficiency.

A powerful business process-modeling and calculation application powered by the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, SAP Business Profitability Management generates new insight into revenue, costs, net profits, and capacity utilization of a business, including:

• Customers, accounts, channels, and segments
• Transactions, orders, and line items
• Products, items, SKUs, categories, and subcategories
• Vendors or suppliers
• Locations, branches, stores, and business units
• Business process and resources (capital expenditures and people)

Using this visibility, you can effectively pursue revenue and profitability enhancement initiatives with customers, pricing, service, and channel strategies, as well as products, product categories, and merchandising decisions. You can also enhance profitability and reduce costs with vendors or suppliers. And you can initiate cost reduction initiatives, including benchmarking, process efficiency, and labor-capacity analysis.

SAP Business Profitability Management offers these key features:

• Specific product metrics and drill-down for a deeper understanding of costs and net profitability
• Powerful analytical reports to highlight cost and profitability issues, and forecast the impact of change using advanced, business modeling functions
• Role-based reporting providing out-of-the-box security, with role-based limits to report accessibility for easy management of departmental permissions
• Deep business-process modeling and flexibility to use a variety of methodologies in one model – including true time-driven ABC, traditional ABC, and percentage or rate allocations
• Patent-pending functionality for optimizing every profit driver, such as revenue, costs, net profit, and resource capacity and utilization – across an unlimited number of dimensions, including customers, products, suppliers, orders, transactions, and line items
• Enterprise-scale capabilities and support for large data volume

This enterprise-scalable application provides a degree of accuracy and a low total cost of ownership unavailable in other commercial or in-house alternatives.