Guestline Customer Success Story
Transforming financial operations to reduce the admin burden with SAP Business One
Since going live with SAP Business One we are saving up to one and half FTE equivalent per year in admin time, that’s a significant time saving.Finance Business Partner, Guestline
The Client
About
Guestline
Guestline offers cloud technology for hoteliers, providing end-to-end property management, channel distribution and digital marketing solutions to a range of hotel groups, independent hotels, serviced apartments, management companies and pub companies.
Understanding the Problem
The Challenge
Guestline needed a finance system that would reflect its recent changes in the business and significant growth, during which time it had acquired many more customers and increased its product lines.
Its previous system had been built to old requirements some 15 years ago. But with a more complex customer base involving multiple sites and inter-relationships between hotel head offices and flight and payment outfits, Guestline needed to find new ways of reporting and much more transparency across the financial operations of the business.
The Solution
Making it Work
Guestline turned to Codestone to deliver SAP Business One, choosing the business management solution over Netsuite and Navision for its enhanced capability to manage financial information across multiple customer sites and inter-relationships.
From top level financial data to being able to drill down to individual customer detail, the finance team can distinguish everything by product and site codes, so areas of the business that are not performing well can quickly be identified and monitored. SAP Business One also makes the preparation of budgets and forecasting much easier because detailed operational data is readily available.
SAP Business One also integrates with the firm’s existing Microsoft Dynamics CRM so invoicing can be processed directly. This gives Guestline visibility of payment
relationships as well as contractual relationships.
Codestone demonstrated professionalism and extensive SAP expertise from the outset. Their understanding of our business requirements and approach to our specific set of challenges gave us the confidence in them to guide us through our implementation journey.Finance Business Partner, Guestline
Discover the Benefits
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Guestline has saved up to one and half FTE equivalent per year in administration time by automating financial processes
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Transparency and visibility in one system enables Guestline to manage revenues, break them down by customer site & product and spread them across the lifetime of a customer agreement
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Cost centre managers, directors and other stakeholders get the level of granular data they require from in depth reports and analysis
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Budget preparation and forecasting is easier with the level of detail that is now readily available from SAP Business One
It was absolutely brilliant working with Codestone. They were very helpful and showed us different ways of meeting our complex requirements, supporting us all the way through the project. Our project manager kept us on track and met our deadlines; I can honestly say that without Codestone the project wouldn’t be live today.Finance Business Partner, Guestline
