K3 automates estate management for retailers
5th June 2007, Birmingham K3, the UK's largest provider of Microsoft Dynamics business solutions, has launched an Estate Management solution that enables retailers to automate the management of every aspect of property ownership, occupation and management, resulting in improved management and cost savings.
K3’s Estate Management property and facilities management solution combines with Microsoft Dynamics’s core financial modules to help retail companies manage their entire estate. It enables them to track assets, manage complex rent and loan agreements and using the property maintenance module, manage the repairs and maintenance of estate and equipment.
Estate Management enables retailers to use the same application they use to manage the rest of their business. Compatible with other Microsoft applications, such as Outlook, Excel, SharePoint and Reporting Services, Estate Management can be seamlessly integrated into almost any existing business environment.
Estate Management covers Premises Management, Repairs & Maintenance and Rents.
Premises Management
Premises Management allows retailers to hold all property details in one place, from room sizes to multiple digital images of your properties; in order to build and maintain a full history.
- Administrate key property details
- Contacts and addresses
- Store unlimited digital images
- Contract details
- Fixed Asset register
- Valuations
- Rates
- Hazards
- GIS link, via postcode to Microsoft MapPoint
- Unlimited user defined data
- Analysis options aid decision making processes
Rents
The Rents component allows the complete management of all rent contracts on both the payment and collection sides of the business. The risk of human error in this complex task has been mitigated by the automation of rent collections and payments.
- Tenancy agreements
- Payments calculations
- Payments holidays
- Guarantees
- Contractual obligations
- Ad hoc or scheduled calculations
Repairs & Maintenance
Manage everything from new builds, acquisitions, major refurbishments to simple day to day maintenance tasks.
Large new building and refurbishment projects can be managed; from the creation of works and purchase orders with scheduling, through to budgetary control.
Planned routine maintenance is catered for with planned works orders being scheduled within the system. From the completion of these orders new planned events are scheduled.
Non-routine day to day maintenance can be managed and tracked with internal and external works orders.
- Automated production of work requests, purchase orders and re-charges to premises
- Work order management
- Purchase order management
- Audits and condition surveys
- Construction Industry Scheme (CIS) compliance
- Event Diary
Benefits
Benefits of this solution include immediate visibility of information, optimised decision making, full integration with core Microsoft Dynamics modules, flexibility and scaleability
About K3
As the UK’s largest provider of Microsoft Dynamics, K3 provides business software solutions for the retail sector, built around the complete Microsoft technology stack.
As a Gold Level Partner, and with 25 years of experience, K3’s implementations employ a structured approach that focuses on delivering unique competitive advantages within an agreed performance structure.
Clients that have enjoyed the benefits of a K3 software solution include:
Adidas, Alliance Pharmacy, American Golf, Booths Supermarkets, Carpetright, Choices UK Plc, Dobbies Garden Centres, Dreams, Gamestation, Gamestop, Lakeland, Leekes, National Gallery Company, Pearsons, Rugby Football Union, Shoon, Space NK.
K3 is part of the K3 Business Technology Group Plc