Affinity Sutton has reported the successful implementation of a new procure-to-pay (P2P) system from Capita IB Solutions as part of a group amalgamation project last year. The new system replaces an older OpenText-based system and, latterly, a manual paper-based system for purchase ordering. Affinity Sutton’s amalgamation project has been one of the biggest change projects…
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Finance Management
Competitive dialogue – Tender is the fight
This is the first in a series of articles from Viridian’s project consultant, John Paul, covering the various stages of a live Competitive Dialogue procurement process. Subsequent articles will track the progress of the project, from its inception through to, we hope, contract signatures. I can’t remember when ‘procurement’ replaced ‘purchasing’ in our management vocabulary…
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Bridging the digital divide makes economic and social sense
2013 is the year when benefit payments will be made online. For many housing associations in the UK, this will create challenges around how their tenants access this money and use it to pay their rents. But this also presents an opportunity to get tenants using the internet now to not only pay bills but…
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Who’s afraid of Universal Credit?
There is little doubt that the introduction of Universal Credit is one of the biggest threats this decade to a housing provider’s income. The change to benefits being paid to tenants, and the new responsibility for housing providers to collect the credit allocated for rent, is one that few providers are equipped to tackle. Many…
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Equifax unveils tenancy verification system
Equifax has launched a tenancy verification service designed to make it easier for housing providers to identify tenancy fraud, reduce the costs of housing misuse and improve the collection of arrears. Housing tenancy fraud includes the unauthorised subletting of a property for profit, using false information in a housing application to gain a tenancy, and…
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Habinteg Housing chooses Frontier for HR & payroll
Ulster-based Habinteg Housing Association has announced its choice of the Chris21 system from Frontier Software for HR and payroll along with additional modules for P11D and recruitment management. The system is scheduled for implementation between May and August 2012. Chris21 provides a centralised, virtual HR office and will help Habinteg to build a complete history…
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