170 Markview: streamlining the ERP operation
Overview
Clients choose Xansa to implement the 170 Markview product suite in order to obtain best-practice financial processes. 170 Systems delivers proven solutions that optimise financial transactions by capturing and managing all the information associated with core financial functions.
The requirements for such streamlined processes include:
- Reducing operational costs: a constant challenge;
- Sarbanes-Oxley Act: this act has placed financial controls at the heart of most key business processes;
- Late payment legislation: organisations are subject to interest and other charges for later payment to creditors;
- Asset leverage: organisations hope to increase the return on their ERP investments
This investment enables clients to:
- Reduce costs by eliminating costs and time associated with manual, paper-based processes
- Strengthen internal controls that reduce errors and fraud by automatically enforcing corporate policies and procedures with full reporting and audit capabilities
- Improve service levels via automated workflows seamlessly integrated with any existing ERP investment
- Reduce implementation cycle: leveraging Xansa's extensive experience results in shorter implementation timescales. All associated costs, such as training, are also reduced through the re-use of current methods and documentation.
- Reduce maintenance costs: Clients can 'plug' into Xansa's current support service and structures.
Capability and track record
Capability overview: Xansa's extensive experience of complex ERP systems would be leveraged in the implementation of the 170 Markview product suite. We would install this technology in order to optimise other core business processes such as contracts, human resources, order management, project management, and property management. The solutions are designed from the outset to be integrated with ERP systems such as Oracle or SAP so that each implementation is customised to meet a client's specific needs, and maximise ROI. Using Xansa's proven methodology, the implementation would follow these well-established phases:
- Planning and specification - designing the optimal approach to meet the client's specific requirements, which may include implementation, business process outsourcing, ERP application maintenance and technology hosting;
- Business process design - working with the client to model and define the business processes to be supported by the 170 Markview solution;
- Implementation - technical installation and functional configuration;
- Training - instruction to key business functions and the wider user community;
- Sustain and optimise - ongoing maintenance and best use out of the Markview solution.
- Offshoring - using the solution to facilitate offshore business processing.
Track record
Xansa is a market leader in this field:
- Xansa is a certified partner of 170 Systems. Within the partnership, 170 Systems is committed to working with Xansa to enable them to be the implementation partner of choice for 170 System customers in the EMEA region
- Xansa has undertaken the largest 170 Markview implementation in Europe
- 110 Accounts Payable users in Manchester and Chennai
- 140,000 end users within the client
- Digital conversion of 150,000 documents per month
- Processing £1bn of payments per month
- Xansa has the largest pool of skilled resource in Europe and India to deliver these services
- Xansa has the longest track record of implementations, upgrades and ongoing maintenance in the UK
- Xansa's F&A operation for BT is 170 Systems' most referenced site
Xansa's clients in this field include:
- Largest UK telecoms player - the largest implementation and ongoing operation in Europe;
- UK networks provider - a recent implementation leveraging new products such as self-service invoicing;
- Leading UK holiday & leisure group - implementation enabled the offshoring of the Accounts Payable function.
