Marketboomer News

Marketboomer Tees Off at Doonbeg Resort

Marketboomer, the hospitality eProcurement specialist, is delighted to announce that Doonbeg Resort has adopted Marketboomer’s internet-based technology solution to help it buy better and reduce cost. “Like a good golf coach, we are in the business of lowering hospitality handicaps. We educate clients about procurement and support them in managing their costs like they manage their revenues,” said Declan Monahan, managing director, Marketboomer International.

Doonbeg Resort offers an internationally renowned Greg Norman-designed golf course as well as spectacular accommodation, fine dining and the White Horses Spa. The Resort joins an increasing number of Irish hospitality organisations that have chosen Marketboomer as their preferred procurement solution. These include Ashford Castle, Carlton Hotel Group, Carluccio’s Dublin, Hotel Partners, Four Seasons Dublin, The Merrion Hotel and Trim Castle.

Press Release, February 2009, Marketboomer Ireland 

Interview with Declan Monahan in Sunday Business Post

Read the full interview with Declan Monahan, Managing Director of Marketboomer International, in the Irish Sunday Business Post.
http://www.thepost.ie/post/pages/p/story.aspx-qqqt=RECRUITMENT-qqqs=themarket-qqqid=39231-qqqx=1.asp

Congratulations to Mission Australia!

Marketboomer would like to congratulate Ross Hawkey from Mission Australia, the winner of our recent promotion. Our campaign involved surveying businesses with questions such as ‘whether their accounts payable workflow was efficient’ and if ‘they were worried about the integrity of their procurement processes’. Mission Australia won the promotion and received a donation from Marketboomer to assist in their cause.

Mission Australia is a national non-denominational community service organisation. With over 450 services across metropolitan, rural and regional Australia, just last year Mission Australia assisted more than 330,000 people. This year, Mission Australia turns 150 and to celebrate they are recognising the people and places that have shaped them over all the years and made them integral to the lives of so many Australians.

To support the Mission Australia’s work in helping to transform the lives of Australians in need, visit www.missionaustralia.com.au.

Marketboomer’s ‘Buy Better’ Solution Attracts Major Irish Hotel Group

Marketboomer Ireland, Press Release, January 2009

Marketboomer, the eprocurement company which helps hospitality businesses buy better and reduce cost, is delighted to announce that Carlton Hotels has joined as a client. One of Ireland’s leading operators of luxurious and elegant 4 star hotels, Carlton manage seven properties throughout Ireland in Dublin, Donegal, Galway, Kildare, Kinsale, Westport and Wexford.

“We are delighted to welcome Carlton Hotels to our growing list of prestigious Irish hospitality organisations which include Ashford Castle, Carluccio’s Dublin, The Four Seasons Dublin, Hotel Partners and The Merrion Hotel. I look forward to working closely with Michael Kearney and his team at Carlton in transitioning from current habits to industry best practice,” said Declan Monahan, managing director, Marketboomer International.

Open PO Enhancement released!

The Open PO functionality has become a crucial part of many Marketboomer Customers and has replaced carbon-copy order books for good! With the new enhancement, it has become even easier.

What has changed?
The latest enhancement of Open PO allows you to override the supplier details before sending (fax or email) and replace it with your own. If you don't want to send the order at all, you click "do not transmit". The system however still tracks this purchase order, follows your business' approval rules and retrievable in the familiar Marketboomer reports section. 

An 'override' order is desired:
- in case you have received the goods already or
- in case a service in your property has already been completed.
and you don't want to physically send the order to your supplier.

Click here to see an example.

If you would like to know more about the enhancement or OpenPO in general, please contact our Customer Support team on t: 1300 666 044 or e: help@marketboomer.com.

Declan Monahan Presents Educational Seminar at BAHA

Declan Monahan, Managing Director of Marketboomer International (MBI), recently presented an educational session to the British Association of Hospitality Accountants (BAHA) at their annual Finance and IT Conference in November.

With support from Sylvia Matthews, Vice President Finance, Jumeirah International, Declan showed participants three simple steps that have been proven to take cost out of the supply chain in a variety of international hospitality environments.
 
Approximately 180 hospitality finance and IT experts attended the two-day event which was held at the five star Sofitel at Heathrow’s Terminal 5.

You can see Declan’s seminar by going to  www.omnisio.com/marketboomer/.

The Westin Sydney - Purchaser Profile

The Westin Sydney is a premier five star hotel nestled in the central business district of Sydney. The Westin Sydney has been using Marketboomer since 2002. With 416 rooms, 3 Food & Beverage outlets, including the biggest pillarless ballroom in Sydney (that can hold a sit down dinner for up to 1000 people), they are no doubt one of the largest volume users currently using Marketboomer. Shane Tambimuttu, the Purchasing Manager at The Westin Sydney is the Marketboomer Administrator at the property and is responsible for maintenance and deployment of Marketboomer.
 
The Westin Sydney is now 100% Marketboomer compliant with beverage purchasing and is in the process of achieving this mark with food. Approaching this milestone was not an easy task as there are hurdles with every new software implementation in an organisation. But soon Westin Sydney users found Marketboomer to be user friendly and easy to use and they accepted this change in purchasing methods.
 
Shane has found that not only purchasing has been simplified. With the deployment of Receiving, Invoicing and Inventory Marketboomer modules, this has saved valuable time in his daily routine. Previously he was entering data up to three times to maintain data integrity across multiple systems; now by using Marketboomer, one electronic document can be passed from purchase order, to receiving note, to invoice, to inventory pick list all within one system.
 
The Marketboomer team wishes Shane and the staff at The Westin Sydney continued success in achieving their future goals.

Marketboomer Singapore

The 7th Marketboomer branch went live with three IHG properties in Singapore last month.

We are excited to announce that the international community of Marketboomer is growing continuously.

Our latest additions are three IHG hotels in Singapore (the InterContinental , Crowne Plaza and Holiday Inn) all of which are using Invoicing (interfaced with SUN accounts payable system), Recipe and the Inventory module. Including the training of a total of 140 staff members, the whole setup per hotel took no longer than five days.

WELCOME ON BOARD!

Marketboomer exhibiting at CIPS Conference

The 4th Annual CIPS Australia (Chartered Institute of Purchasing & Supply) Conference is on 14-15th October 2008 in Melbourne. As many as 600 people are expected to attend to hear the views and experiences of an impressive line-up of international and domestically based keynote speakers.

The central theme of the conference is “The Winning Formula”, addressing how professional procurement can gain true stakeholder buy-in from business leaders through genuine goal alignment in a complex business world to achieve specific goals. In the context of a rapidly changing business environment, it has never been more important for procurement professionals to fully utilise all the available disciplines and skills that support today's fastest growing profession.

We are looking forward to seeing you at our stand.

Marketboomer Deluxe – The Evolution Continues

After 2 years in development, the next generation of our platform codenamed Marketboomer Deluxe is ready for its first release. This quantum leap in the Marketboomer applications capability has taken into account user feedback over the last 11 years.

Starting with suppliers, Marketboomer Deluxe will be released progressively over the next 12 months until all users are on board the new platform. Our Customer Success team will be in touch with you when your account is ready to be moved over and they will ensure the change is smooth and seamless. In fact we are sure you will love the new Marketboomer which is far simpler to use

Email us if you are interested in being involved with the User Feedback Forum for our first release in July 08. You may just get a sneak peek before everyone else!