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Travel West Midlands invests £300,000 with CedarOpenAccounts

30th Oct 2006
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CedarOpenAccounts has won a £300,000 contract with Travel West Midlands, part of the National Express Group, to provide a new financial accounting, agency ticketing, e-procurement and management information system. The contract follows the successful implementation of CedarOpenAccounts’ extended financial management system for the coach and rail divisions of the National Express Group.

Following a review of its legacy financial system, Travel West Midlands chose to implement CedarOpenAccounts’ OpenAccounts product with its general ledger, core accounting and project accounting capabilities. The e-procurement solution will also be integrated into existing fleet rostering and garage maintenance ordering processes for Travel West Midlands’ garages and depots across the UK.

With an extensive purchasing requirement both from its head office and depots, Travel West Midlands has chosen CedarOpenAccount’s OpenAccounts solution to increase its workflow process with web-based accessible information on finance and purchase orders and links to e-procurement. Go-live is scheduled for Autumn 2006. CedarOpenAccounts will also provide a bespoke agency ticketing system to replace the point of sale system currently in use by over 300 Travel West Midlands’ agents. The solution will enable access to sales ledger data and integrate with the OpenAccounts’ management information system.

Paul Williams, IT Director, UK Bus Division of Travel West Midlands comments, "We chose CedarOpenAccounts because of its proven capabilities with the National Express Group’s rail and coach divisions and its scope of functionalities for our extensive requirements. Key factors were its cost effectiveness and ease of integration."

Go-live of the agency ticket system is expected at the end of 2006.

About Travel West Midlands
Travel West Midlands runs the UK’s largest urban bus network outside London and is one of the region’s biggest employers with staff of over 5000, including 3,300 drivers. TWM carry nearly one million passengers a day on a modern fleet of 1,800 vehicles across nearly 600 routes throughout the West Midlands, London and Dundee.

About CedarOpenAccounts
CedarOpenAccounts is the UK's fastest growing Financial Management, Procurement, Human Resource & Payroll software supplier. Its suite of business applications for public and private sector service organisations combines core business management systems, integrated with a range of collaborative and business intelligence solutions, to extend the value and effectiveness of the Finance, HR & Payroll departments across the organisation. The company has more than 400 staff and 1500 clients from across the globe including Companies House, Newcastle City Council, WHSmith, Royal Bank of Scotland, Aer Lingus, National Express Group, DFS and Chesterfield Primary Care Trust. For more information visit www.cedaropenaccounts.com

For more information please contact:
Rob Skinner/Martine Levene
Chameleon PR
0161 435 6520/0161 435 6462
[email protected]/[email protected]

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