Faster Budgeting and More Valuable Insights for Personnel Planning
Customer Company Size
SME
Region
- America
Country
- United States
Product
- Centage Planning Maestro
- Microsoft Dynamics GP
Tech Stack
- Microsoft Excel
Implementation Scale
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
Impact Metrics
- Productivity Improvements
- Cost Savings
Technology Category
- Functional Applications - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP)
Applicable Industries
- Education
- Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions
- Human Resources
- Business Operation
Use Cases
- Predictive Replenishment
Services
- System Integration
- Data Science Services
About The Customer
Urban Ventures is a nonprofit social services organization that provides ‘cradle-to-career’ support for youth and families in one of Minneapolis’ most under-resourced neighborhoods. The faith-based organization works alongside 70 local partners to address opportunity gaps in academics, nutrition, physical activity, parenting resources, and more—all with the overarching goal to prepare and send every youth in their neighborhood to college or postsecondary education. The organization has between 50-100 employees.
The Challenge
Urban Ventures, a nonprofit social services organization, was facing challenges with their budgeting and planning process. Their long list of services, including options from prenatal care all the way through adult life, created many challenges, especially when combined with budgeting and planning for their biggest expense – their employees. Some of the 75+ team members were part time, some were seasonal, and others were full-time, and everything from unemployment insurance rates, taxes (employee and employer), salaries, insurance etc. - all needed to be budgeted and planned for. At the time, Urban Ventures was doing all the budgeting and planning in Excel, with Microsoft Dynamics GP providing the necessary data export/import and reporting features.
The Solution
Urban Ventures looked at several budgeting and planning tools, but quickly narrowed it down to Centage Planning Maestro because of the solution’s personnel planning and forecasting capabilities and its ability to easily integrate with Dynamics GP. With payroll being about 85% of Urban Venture’s expenses, when it came to building the personnel budget, it was critically important that the numbers they used were accurate. Because Planning Maestro seamlessly integrates with Dynamics GP, and many other ERP and accounting systems, the exchange of financial information is always secure, forecasts are accurate, and budgets can be created faster without the risk of data entry errors.
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