Customer since 2009
Municipality of Zaanstad
LIAS ensures at Zaanstad Municipality that there is a common basis for working together on planning and control. This creates clarity in the process and everyone's responsibility.
Automating P&C
The objectives of automating planning and control at the municipality of Zaanstad are:
- Gain insight into the structure of the budget
- Centralizing the multi-year management budget
- Transparency of the management budget (multi-year) across the entire organization
- Get rid of dependence on excel (error prone)
- Proper version control on Planning and Control documents
Clever find
The problems with budget consolidation are a thing of the past. We also saw that users, especially P&C staff, were still very much checking whether everything matched (old way of working). That was unnecessary and is now a thing of the past. You see that some users need an acceptance period to gain confidence. The group had that trust from day one.
"There is peace and overview, because there is one place where planning and control is implemented. A transparent process and fast information provision."
Erik Peek - strategic advisor to Municipality of Zaanstad
Results
Erik Peek, group treasurer / strategic advisor at the municipality of Zaanstad: "There is peace and overview, because there is one place where planning and control is implemented. A transparent process and fast information. There is no longer a black box. Moreover, we now present the P&C products online and are taking steps towards phasing out booklets and PDFs.
Some other great results include:
- Error-prone Excel sheets are a thing of the past
- Greatly improved version management on P&C products. No more hassle with formats and lost information
- Early municipality-wide understanding of budget trends
- The "blackbox" that was the domain budget comes to the surface and there are no more "secrets"
- Documents are easy to understand during the process and everyone can "think along". The content has become everyone's, joint responsibility.
Eye opener
The division of tasks between P&C and the line is partly enforced by LIAS Enterprise. This creates clarity in the process and everyone's responsibility. LIAS supports this and ensures that there is a common basis for working together on planning and control.
Key to success
Some tips from Zaanstad that you can take away are:
- Use software that is reliable and does what it promises.
- Use software that is user-friendly.
- Let as many sections of the organization use the software as possible.
- Grow goodwill within your organization.
- Provide good communication, training and support to users.
Seeing is believing. Request a free demo.
In a conversation and demonstration, everything becomes so much clearer.
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