Village Hotels embraces digital transformation to deliver a consistent customer experience and empower employees to supercharge performance.
Business software consultancy Percipient announces that lifestyle destination hotel group Village Hotels has deployed Sage Intacct. As part of a modernisation program, the group identified a need for new digital capabilities to instil greater automation across its business. Sage Intacct now facilitates greater efficiency, collaboration and consistency across the company’s 33 sites across the UK and scales to support new initiatives and growth plans.
As part of a business review, Village Hotels identified a need for a modern, cloud-based ERP platform which could deliver business insights and empower general managers to improve business performance. Village Hotels selected Sage Intacct based on its ability to leverage APIs to integrate fully with Village Hotels’ data lake and deliver a fully integrated, comprehensive view of the business.
Now live, Sage Intacct allows the team at Village Hotels to quickly access the previous month’s figures so trading patterns are much easier to view, compare and react to. Month-end has reduced from around eight days to just three, and reporting to executives is easy and flexible and can be quickly tailored to deliver the information required. Crucially, the insights it delivers can be understood by both financial and non-financial people, giving the whole team the intelligence and autonomy to manage their respective business areas. This is particularly valuable when it comes to labour and resourcing.
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“We have a 50/50 split fixed versus flexible payroll, and in the current climate of skills shortages and labour challenges, it’s easy to overspend on the latter if left unchecked,” comments Lee Gaskell, Group Financial Controller, Village Hotels. “Sage Intacct provides us with real-time insights to monitor spending to spot any anomalies against the benchmark to allow the balance to be adjusted and recalibrated before it escalates. The intelligence in the system facilitates not only the numbers but also an explanation of these numbers based on additional or external intelligence.
“This helps forecasting as we can look at how a specific event, promotion or dynamic has impacted performance and identify how these are likely to play out in the future. Crucially, P&L is easy to view and understand, and costs can be tracked more easily. Accounts can be tagged and a more in-depth search or analysis can be conducted where necessary for deeper understanding and insights to support business outcomes. Our group procurement controls can even build in inflationary costs to make more accurate predictions for the forthcoming 12 months, which is fundamental in planning.”
“Throughout the process, Percipient’s speed of reaction and resolution was second to none. The team’s experience, expertise and knowledge of our industry helped us to get up and running with the system quickly, and get the most out of it. As well as training, regular check-ins, honesty and transparency, the range of networking events and webinars they offer amplifies the value we have experienced due to the deployment.”
Village Hotels Sage Intacct Success Story
You can read the full Village Hotels success story on the Percipient website. If you would like to know more about Percipient or the benefits of Sage Intacct for hotels, email [email protected] or call them on 01606 871332.
