Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils Select Unit4 ERP to Add Value, Support Financial Best Practice, and Deliver Business Benefits

London, UK, November 1, 2022 -- Unit4, a leader in enterprise cloud applications for people-centric organizations, today announced that Babergh & Mid Suffolk District Councils have selected Unit4 ERP to introduce a modern finance and procurement platform that will automate manual processes, driving efficiencies, predictability and empower employees.

Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils are working together sharing a workforce, vision, and joint strategic plan. With around 200,000 citizens, the Councils are focused on developing and delivering high quality services for its residents. With Unit4, the Councils will replace their legacy system that was no longer fit for purpose, whilst reducing the need for manual entry into spreadsheets. The Councils will also be able to generate greater efficiency from their current resources, as well as benefit from improved system resilience, flexibility and streamlined processing through self-service, automation, workflow, and real-time reporting.

Furthermore, the Councils required a system that could provide an audit log to give a secure record of all access and updates. One that provides flexible and robust security and the ability to apply security rules to ‘drill down’ access.

By selecting Unit4 ERP, Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils will also benefit from:

• Automated transactions & back-office functions
• The ability to put finance at the centre of strategic decision-making
• More informed decision-making
• A modern solution that enables staff to be more self-sufficient and not rely on accountants for basic financial information
• Robust data integrity controls and reports, with rapid drill-down query and reporting capabilities back to the source data
• Improved response time to changing resident needs by rapidly reconfiguring processes and services.

Unit4 has extensive experience in helping more than 100 Local Government customers in the UKI - including Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council, Cherwell District Council and Southampton City Council – to boost productivity, reduce costs, effectively plan for the future, and improve citizen value. The company’s industry model approach provides finance and HR teams in the Public Sector with solutions that transform how people work, helping to deliver more responsive government services, achieve regulatory compliance, and transform public service delivery.