As one of the heavily affected sectors by the coronavirus pandemic, the tourism and cruise industry is undertaking extra scrutiny as it rebounds, with companies searching for ways to reduce costs and decrease incurred debts.
One such company helping cruise lines achieve faster, accurate data loading and inventory management is More4apps, a specialist in Excel-based software for EBS & Fusion Cloud.
Headquartered in the United States, the international cruise line, boasting a fleet of 20+ ships serving millions of guests each year, was facing consistently high costs amid inaccurate data in Oracle E-Business Suite.
At the time, the cruise line was manually inputting purchasing and receiving data, which translated to extensive labor and frequent errors, often leading to incorrect data about received goods, causing understock or over-order of materials regularly.
Improving purchasing processes with More4apps tools
As part of its efforts to streamline operations, the cruise line opted for several More4apps solutions to replace its manual processes for purchasing and receiving. More4apps enabled the cruise line team members to download, edit and upload data to Oracle E-Business Suite easily within an Excel spreadsheet.
In order to accelerate the cruise line’s first step of purchasing, requisition, the customer relied on the More4apps Requisition Wizard from the EBS Toolbox to download existing requisitions, change the requesting info and upload it to create new requisitions for its ships. As a result, the company benefited from decreased labor and reduced mistakes.
Elsewhere, aiming to increase data validity and reliability, the team tapped into the More4apps PO Receiving Wizard which can rapidly create advanced shipment notices (ANS) data in Oracle for large PO receipts. The PO Wizard also helps the company by downloading existing POs from one ship and editing them for the next, in an effort to shorten the turnaround time on purchasing goods for their cruise ships.
These practical applications demonstrate that companies are more often dipping their toe into the opportunities offered by automation technology to help them solve the practical issues some industries are still struggling with in the aftermath of the pandemic. Following the “work smarter, not harder” approach, more organizations are opening themselves to the potential that specialists can bring to improve their bottom line and daily operations.
