Professional Planner at the Johannesbad Reha-Kliniken AG
The Johannesbad Reha-Kliniken AG with approx. 1000 employees consists of different facilities for orthopaedic recovery, mother-child care, cure and after-care as well clinic management. Johannesbad, located in the spa Bad Füssing/Bavaria, is Europe’s largest and Bavaria’s most famous hot springs resort. It is also Germany’s large rehabilitation centre to treat disorders of the musculoskeletal system. The corporation offers a wide range of treatments, cures and therapies for different diseases in different locations throughout Germany.
(PRWEB) December 23, 2004
So far a self-developed, Excel-based system was used. That covered planning the balance sheet and the liquidity status. The same system was also used for creating monthly reports. The IDL KONSIS standard software for consolidated accounting and management reporting provided the data needed. This was the prerequisite for quickly implementing the new system. KONSIS already hosted all interfaces to the different accounting systems and realised the transition to a uniform classification system (account system).
Likewise the interface from KONSIS to Professional Planner was identical for all units. IDL-KONSIS still remains the central system; Professional Planner is completely compatible with it. The healthcare industry experiences an enormous urge to act facing health reforms in order to cut expenses.
Changing structures within the corporation make it necessary to react even faster to demands. For this reason, possible future modifications have to be quantified in advance and their effects have to be simulated. These high demands on the systemÂ’s flexibility could not be met with the existing systems or without raising the resources.
„With the help of Professional Planner we can now simulate the effects of changes in different locations, companies, profit centres and sales segments at short notice. This speeds up the decision-making process considerably. We can reduce the time needed for preparing the decision-making criteria.“, says Helmut Karg, CEO.
Three days were allowed for implementing Professional Planner, TUM-Tech GmbH was in charge of the operation. All planning levels were determined in advance of the Professional Planner training.
1 Installation / Fine-tuning the technical details (one day internally, supported by the hotline). The situation was an atypical one since single workstations (Notebooks) as well as a server environment (Citrix) had to be taken into consideration.
2 Training the system - some basic Professional Planner knowledge existed. This was followed by internal work with the model and real data (approx. two weeks)
3 Solving special problems that occurred while working with the application.
4 Benefits for the client:
- High data consistency supports the financial controlling process
- All planning steps display the effects on profit & loss and liquidity immediately
- Decentralised gathering of plan data and decentralised access to controlling evaluations
- Professional Planner guarantees integrated profit & loss/ financial and balance sheet planning
- High time savings when creating company plans and monthly reports
"Professional Planner considerably sped up our decision-making processes. We can prepare the decision-making criteria with far less effort. The project paid off after six months and now we can make use of the approx. 40 man-days per year saved in budgeting, reporting, strategic management and ad-hoc evaluations for more important measures”, confirms Karg.
“Professional Planner is the tool to depict the future. Deviations can be spotted at an early stage, so we are able to take countermeasures in time to reach our target.”
Helmut Karg, CEO Johannesbad
Reha-Kliniken AG
For more information please refer to:
TUM Tech GmbH
Www. tumtech. de
Info@tumtech. de
Winterheller software GmbH
Winterheller software was founded in 1988 by Prof. Manfred Winterheller, a noted specialist in management sciences, and it has quickly grown into the leading software and consulting company for controlling and management information systems. The software facilitates swift and reliable company-wide budgeting, regular budget/actual comparisons and decision-oriented “what-if” queries.
Professional Planner is based on the standard textbook “Kurzfristige Unternehmensplanung", by Egger/Winterheller (meanwhile in its 10th edition) that has been on the market for 12 years.
In the meantime approx. 4,000 clients with more than 8,000 workstations apply the programme that has evolved from intensive research and teaching.
Among them are clients like Thomas Cook, Brockhaus, T-Systems, Plaut, Rene Lezard, Siemens, Henkel, Audi, Ruhrgas Beteiligungs AG, baumax AG, Resch&Frisch, Schönbrunn Palace, Hirsch Armbänder, Trodat, Düsseldorf Airport, Adecco, Capgemini and many more.
The software is also used in universities in the German-speaking area, in universities of applied sciences in Austria and Germany, as well as in Austrian commercial colleges.
For further information please contact:
Winterheller software GmbH
Nieves Cascón
Radetzkystrasse 6/5
A-8010 Graz
Tel: +43 / 316 / 71 94 10-0
Nieves. cascon@winterheller. com
Www. professionalplanner. com
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