Cabela’s selects Acorn Systems’ profitability and cost management solution

Houston -- After a thorough evaluation of major leading profitability systems, Cabela’s Inc. has selected Acorn Systems’ Performance Analyzer because of its expertise in profitability management and its ability to provide a flexible, scalable and elegant platform to drive true net SKU profitability analytics.



“The continued growth of Cabela’s in multiple channels such as store, catalog and e-commerce has driven a greater need to understand true profitability to enable strategic decisions related to pricing, category management and overall business performance,” said Brian Linneman, chief merchandising officer, Cabela’s, Sidney, Neb. “Acorn’s Performance Analyzer will enable us to achieve greater SKU profitability insights to drive improved decisions as we balance financial results with product offerings for our customers.”



Acorn’s technology and methodology will build off Cabela’s own systems to create new and actionable intelligence, Acorn said. By providing fresh insight into the true net profit of a business in a detailed and multidimensional way, Acorn’s solutions leverage a company’s existing IT infrastructure to draw data directly from existing operational and financial systems including ERP, WMS, labor management and the enterprise data warehouse.