How Unit4 ERP users can be more productive and efficient in their daily processes
GCON4 is an official Unit4 partner and the preferred Unit4 implementation partner for many of our customers. GCON4 MFL, developed by GCON4 is an innovative, indispensable tool to streamline and significantly reduce the time to perform data upload and maintenance of our Unit4 ERP.
With an easy-to-use interface, GCON4 MFL enables you to bulk import, update and validate master files and transactional data, including all associated flexi-fields, relations, and document archives, easily and rapidly in a single step. Using its own web services for the uploading of data, excel templates are automatically generated based on your current ERP configurations.
It makes sure all import data is thoroughly validated and highlighted with details of any errors found before the upload. It also enables users to bulk update existing Unit4 ERP data or add new ones easily without having to change records individually.
Working with Unit4 and GCON4 MFL, our customers are boosting productivity and efficiency and benefiting from significantly reduced implementation & maintenance timelines and costs.
With that in mind, we wanted to share with you some of our customers’ stories:
Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK is the world’s largest cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research. They are also the world’s largest independent funder of cancer research, investing over $400 million each year in 39 countries across prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. The charity receives no government funding, so relies on donations to fund its life-saving work.
As with most global charities, it operates as a business, and its success depends on the smooth running of its back-office systems. They need to ensure costs are kept to a minimum and efficiency is high so that donations can be spent on achieving their mission of finding a cure for all cancers.
Cancer Research UK has been a user of Unit4 ERP for over ten years, but they were finding that the unsupported version they were working on, and the traditional methods of table writes for data loads that they were using were throwing up issues with indexing which became labor intensive and time consuming.
The solution came with GCON4 MFL, which revolutionized their data loading process, and simplified their complex data loads, speeding the whole process up from what could take days or months to be done in just hours.
“Just the process to import users saved us around four or five days using GCON4 MFL over the traditional methods we used. Had we used the solution from the start, it could have saved us months. Our only regret is that we didn’t find the solution earlier!” Ken Edwards, Senior Systems Accountant, Cancer Research UK
Read the full story here
The Woodland Trust
The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. It aims to protect and restore as much ancient woodland as possible across the UK and to create new native woodland. The Trust owns over 1200 sites and has an ambitious strategy to fight for no more loss of ancient woodland and to plant over 64 million trees in the next ten years.
The Trust had been working with multiple systems feeding data and transactions into Unit4 ERP, or systems that provided data for manual input into Unit4 ERP. Different processes had developed over time for each interaction, either electronic or manual, but the Unit4 ERP Systems Team at the Trust saw a way to unify these interactions using the GCON4 MFL solution and automating more processes in order to save their people time.
GCON4 MFL will now allow transactions from external systems to get into Unit4 ERP, transforming the Trusts’ multi-system interactions, reducing errors, and streamlining processes. Having a consistent method of automatically importing their data means maintenance is simplified for all these imports. Changes or improvements can now be applied much more easily across all import processes.
“We are extremely pleased with the GCON4 MFL software. It has meant that many disparate processes have been streamlined and unified, saving staff time and effort as well as reducing errors.” Simon Talbot, Accountant, Woodland Trust
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Places for People
Places for People is one of the largest property and leisure management, development, and regeneration companies in the UK. It owns or manages over 140,000 homes and has assets in excess of £3 billion. Customers are at the heart of everything they do. They have been building homes since 1965, and today they create award-winning developments that are more than just homes. They take a placemaking approach, strengthening the connection between people and the places they share through a collaborative process that maximizes shared value.
The standard loads they were working with were time consuming and required multiple templates and testing, which meant retesting and remapping due to additional fields being added, which led to errors, duplications, and risk to data integrity.
The business needed a solution. They were looking to cut data migration time and reduce the risk of data integrity compromise. The introduction of GCON4 streamlined their data migration and greatly reduced migration time. Places for People can now create template data loads quickly and easily and can validate the data and provide clear and concise error messages. There is now the ability to do a single upload which would have required multiple server processes negating the risk of direct table writes ad SQL scripts.
“We are happy to have invested in GCON4 MFL and can see real benefits as an organization in using this software. GCON4 is happy to help with any issues and has a rapid response time when any has been discovered. Also, speaking to them, you can see the passion for the product, and hearing their roadmap for the future is very exciting with lots of possibilities.” Paul Nelson, ERP Implementation Consultant, Places for People
Read the full story here
How Unit4 and GCON4 can help
It’s vital companies like these make the best use of their precious resources. Labor-intensive legacy systems and manual processes no longer fit requirements, so why let them hold your organization back?
Give your people the time, visibility, and control they need to make a difference and build success - click here to watch our on-demand webinar to see how your organization could benefit too.
Learn more about GCON4
GCON4, an official Unit4 Elite Partner and a Raven Intelligence 5-Star Implementation Partner, is a dynamic and diverse global consultancy organization for Unit4 enterprise business solutions such as Unit4 ERP and Unit4 FP&A.
Besides being able to provide expert implementation services and support to Unit4 ERP users in English and Spanish, GCON4 is the proud creator of these innovative tools - GCON4 MFL (for Unit4 ERP) and GCON4 iConnect (for Unit4 ERPx), which are tested and proven to significantly boost the productivity and efficiency of Unit4 ERP users in their daily processes.
Find out more about its solutions and services at https://gcon4.com.
Unit4 contact person:
Victor Freitas
Global Partner Innovation Director
