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The Emergency Services have become accustomed to improving the efficiency of back office operations in order to preserve front-line services, but CSR10 has accentuated the situation even further.
Heightened by current economic conditions, CSR10 is a management challenge as well as an opportunity for open-minded thinking. Initiatives that have been discussed and discarded previously are back on the agenda - together with new ideas.
Advanced Business Solutions is the leading provider of finance, procurement, human capital management and performance management solutions to the Public Sector.
Over 600 public sector organisations, including over 50 emergency services organisations, use Advanced Business Solutions’ Smart Business Suite to assist them achieving their CSR10, Government, HM Inspector of Constabularies targets, and other financial and regulatory requirements.
Advanced Business Solutions has identified two key approaches to tackling and successfully meeting the challenges of CSR10 and beyond:
There are still significant savings to be made in stand-alone back office functions such as expenses management, procurement and invoice management. Advanced Business Solutions’ experience in the sector has realised savings of up to 18% in expense claims and up to 60% in purchase invoice processing costs, for example.
In shared services or other collaborative working arrangements, we have helped organisations achieve reductions of up to 70% in central purchasing process costs. The opportunity to reallocate this level of funding to front line services is too significant to ignore post-CSR10.
In many implementations with the 50+ Emergency Services organisations that Advanced Business Solutions works with, we have been able to achieve dual objectives; reducing costs, and meeting Government targets for prompt payment and carbon reduction simultaneously.
In some cases – particularly where legacy systems and processes exist – investment is needed in order to achieve more profound, recurring savings. These situations need to be justified with cost/benefit and return on investment analysis. The results can differ from expectations, revealing new opportunities as well as opportunities that may not have been considered seriously before.
Advanced Business Solutions is skilled at producing thorough cost/benefit and return on investment analyses, putting its success and experience with commercial and public sector organisations at your fingertips.
For example, having to make an initial investment up-front may not be viable financially, and it also carries a considerable level of risk. Advanced Business Solutions’ approach is to stage savings throughout the life of an implementation so that economies made in one stage fund the next, and so on. This approach avoids the need for large investment up-front and smoothes your cash flow throughout the life of the project. In effect, implementations become self-funding and may also go on to generate recurring savings.
More ways that Advanced Business Solutions can help Emergency Services