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		<title>Hotel Financial Planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2019 12:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CHALLENGE Opening a large amount of hotels across the globe requires experienced teams armed with the right tools to plan but also quickly modify parameters as projects change and eveolve. The company was in search of a custom and automated tool to support their activity. SOLUTION iExcel worked together with the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>Opening a large amount of hotels across the globe requires experienced teams armed with the right tools to plan but also quickly modify parameters as projects change and eveolve. The company was in search of a custom and automated tool to support their activity.</p>
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<p>iExcel worked together with the company financial and hotel pre-opening teams to set up a system that automates most of the tasks. The interface is connected to a number of systems and data sources so that relevant data is pre-populated based on chosen parameters. The solution is quick and felxible allowing high levels of customization.</p>
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<p>Working using a common structure, and being able to control the data used in a secured manner with various levels of permissions provides a whole new way of approaching these multiple projects. More projects can be handled better and more accurately.</p>
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		<title>Restaurant Financial Planning</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jeremy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2019 11:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CHALLENGE As part as their turn key services, the consultancy provides a 5 year financial plan. Compiling an accurate planning for the first 2 years presents a number of challenges providing uncertain opening dates, seasonality, market conditions, labour, licensing... SOLUTION iExcel studied the business model, listened to the various actors in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>As part as their turn key services, the consultancy provides a 5 year financial plan. Compiling an accurate planning for the first 2 years presents a number of challenges providing uncertain opening dates, seasonality, market conditions, labour, licensing...</p>
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<p>iExcel studied the business model, listened to the various actors in play in the planning process, and together with the team, designed a dynamic tool that compiled variables and produced a set of financial planning according to pre-set hypothesis.</p>
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<p>The consultancy is now able to provide in very little time a financial planning that can be further tweaked by themselves and their investors in order to understand the risks and opportunities involved in their projects.</p>
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		<title>Hotel F&#038;B Forecasting</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jeremy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 12:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CHALLENGE A fair share of the hotels do not have a forecasting system for their Food &#38; Beverage operations. Being able to predict demand in multiple outlet properties, catering to various markets with different table turnover, opening hours and number of services is a complicated, time-consuming task, yet it is crucial [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>A fair share of the hotels do not have a forecasting system for their Food &amp; Beverage operations. Being able to predict demand in multiple outlet properties, catering to various markets with different table turnover, opening hours and number of services is a complicated, time-consuming task, yet it is crucial for the whole organisation for financial, operational and commercial planning.</p>
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<p>iExcel built up an automated forecasting platform with 2 goals: first minimize user input and time spent, second forecast accuracy. Thanks to careful listening and planning of the model, based on standards and new forecasting best practices, iExcel together with the hotel conpany's top experts delivered a user-friendly, accurate and intelligent forecasting solution.</p>
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<p>Food &amp; Beverage teams are able to plan and understand their demand much better. Headquarters and executive teams are able to pinpoint and discuss issues and opportunities swiftly. Communication with propoerty owners is more transparent.</p>
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		<title>Airline Meal Forecasting</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jeremy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2017 19:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CHALLENGE When preparing in excess of 10,000 meals a day, a large airline catering operation requires a way to accurately forecast meals, handle last minute changes and unexpected requests. SOLUTION iExcel designed and developed a forecasting software that allows to plan the activity including production and stocks for 3 months, with [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>When preparing in excess of 10,000 meals a day, a large airline catering operation requires a way to accurately forecast meals, handle last minute changes and unexpected requests.</p>
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<p>iExcel designed and developed a forecasting software that allows to plan the activity including production and stocks for 3 months, with daily fine tuning of next months and on-day final order.</p>
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<p>The use of a custom forecasting system allowed for much better meal and roster planning, less waste and better use of the workforce.</p>
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		<title>Stock Management</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jeremy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2015 18:59:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CHALLENGE When preparing in excess of 10,000 meals a day, a large airline catering operation must be able to rely on excellent stock management. A dedicated system is paramount to accomplish this task correctly. SOLUTION iExcel designed a stock management software that integrated with other production applications. It manages suppliers, tenders, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>When preparing in excess of 10,000 meals a day, a large airline catering operation must be able to rely on excellent stock management. A dedicated system is paramount to accomplish this task correctly.</p>
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<p>iExcel designed a stock management software that integrated with other production applications. It manages suppliers, tenders, items, changing prices, perishability, minimum and maximum orders and re-order thresholds with alerts. Access rights allow various users to perform specific tasks.</p>
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<p>Managing stocks is crucial to the smooth operations of large productions. This integrated application made a big difference, and ensured steady supply of items and prodcuts.</p>
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		<title>Airline Catering ERP</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jeremy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2015 19:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CHALLENGE When preparing in excess of 10,000 meals a day, a large airline catering operation requires a comprehensive and user-friendly system to manage every single step of the operation. SOLUTION iExcel designed a comprehensive system that managed customers, meal rotations, meal trays, menus, recipes, sub-recipes, ingredients, yield, cost, price and all [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>When preparing in excess of 10,000 meals a day, a large airline catering operation requires a comprehensive and user-friendly system to manage every single step of the operation.</p>
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<p>iExcel designed a comprehensive system that managed customers, meal rotations, meal trays, menus, recipes, sub-recipes, ingredients, yield, cost, price and all the aspects of transforming ingredients into airline meals for different class accurately. The system is integrated to the stock management system and the accounting system.</p>
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<p>A bespoke system allowed for a complex operation to handle a large number of flights and grow the activity steadily.</p>
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		<title>ETL &#038; Visualization</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jeremy]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2014 12:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CHALLENGE The company employs in excess of 20,000 employees in a market with a very high staff turnover. Follow up and prioritising areas, departments, divisions that require new recruits can be complicated when data is spread across several systems, and the scale of the company is such that manual reporting becomes [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The company employs in excess of 20,000 employees in a market with a very high staff turnover. Follow up and prioritising areas, departments, divisions that require new recruits can be complicated when data is spread across several systems, and the scale of the company is such that manual reporting becomes impossible.</p>
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<p>iExcel developed a system that extracts, transforms and loads the data from 3 systems in order to build visualisations and dashboards with a high degree of cross-referencing and filtering. This allows the user to quickly understand the situation at a high and detailed level and to identify areas that need to be prioritised.</p>
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<p>Understanding and visualising the recruitment status and process on a daily basis termendously improves the whole recruitment activity, and results in more successful recruitments.</p>
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		<title>Dive Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 12:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CHALLENGE The show requires 25 divers in a pool at any given time handling a set of 35 pieces of machinery and ensuring performer's safety at a 12 meter depth. The operation is complex, and involves strict safety measures; it needs to be handled with high level of accuracy and professionalism. [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The show requires 25 divers in a pool at any given time handling a set of 35 pieces of machinery and ensuring performer's safety at a 12 meter depth. The operation is complex, and involves strict safety measures; it needs to be handled with high level of accuracy and professionalism. Scheduling is a challenging task providing incompatible tasks, compulsory resting time, task rotations, team rotations, training and skill levels.</p>
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<p>iExcel built a visual scheduling platform that alowed to plug divers to a scheduling board according to all the safety constrains and other restrictions. In addition to a leave module, a training and skillset module were also added in order to follow up and promote diver's abilities, which in turns facilitated scheduling.</p>
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<p>Faster and more accurate scheduling together with thorough follow up of required training and skill acquisition allowed for a much smoother operation, a director more available to its team, better control and a happier team.</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[CHALLENGE The company runs a new show that is unique in the world. Technical requirements for this show are unprecedented and require to deal with a large amount of unexpected spending. At the same time, as a company, spending needs to remain under control. The budget is a good guideline but [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The company runs a new show that is unique in the world. Technical requirements for this show are unprecedented and require to deal with a large amount of unexpected spending. At the same time, as a company, spending needs to remain under control. The budget is a good guideline but how to do this without committing excessive hours into cumbersome reporting.</p>
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<p>iExcel built a model that captured purchases and stored them in a database. Views and reports were set up to allow real time comparison between the budget and actual spending. User-friendly clicks allowed to click through accounts and pinpoint spending that drove particular spendings</p>
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<p>Getting its spending under control allows the company for better planning, budgeting and cashflow management. It also ensures material purchase is made in a more structured manner. Precious time is saved thanks to the ready access to information without the need of long and complex research.</p>
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