Soprano Solutions has been chosen by Irwell Valley Housing Association for the implementation of a purchase-to-pay procurement system. The centralised ordering system is expected to enable the housing provider to better manage purchase order and invoice processing to minimise unauthorised expenditure, while reducing administration by as much as 50 per cent. The Soprano system replaces…
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Finance Management
Shared services key to budget constraints – Civica
A survey by Civica of around 100 social housing and local government service directors and IT managers at its annual conference in January 2012 showed that 89 per cent thought that shared services were a viable solution to budget freezes and cuts, up from 52 per cent in last year’s survey and 24 per cent…
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Service charges – What has the accounts system ever done for us?
Why do housing officers so often photocopy service charge invoices and even build their own spreadsheets? This is madness – it’s wasting their time and the company’s money, and they’re simply not experts at it. So why do they do it, and how can we change this? There are four main reasons: They don’t trust…
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Magna upgrades HR & payroll with Bond Teamspirit.
Magna Housing Group has upgraded its HR and payroll processes with an additional module from Bond Teamspirit to give staff and managers more self-service capabilities and reducing the administrative burden on Magna’s eight-strong HR and personnel team. Using the new system, personnel and payroll administrators at Magna now have reliable employee information on which to…
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Orchard picked by Gentoo for online POs
Standfirst: Gentoo Group went live in February 2012 with a new online purchase ordering system from Orchard. Gentoo, an Orchard customer since 2002, has already rolled out the OpenAccounts eFinance and Version One solution to 250 users from a total of 500 planned users. Purchase order processing has now been implemented across the business, with…
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Shared services boost – MidlandHR report
HR and payroll software provider MidlandHR recently published a report on shared services in the public sector, covering the different shared services models, the barriers to project approval, business drivers, the technology infrastructure, and the resulting business and financial benefits. Some of the findings from MidlandHR’s report include: Shared service models – Of the organisations…
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