UNIT4 Business Software, the UK division of UNIT4, has signed a contract with Premier League football club Manchester City to deploy its Agresso Business World ERP suite for sound financial and business management of the club.
The new deployment will help the 2011 FA Cup winner to focus on bringing its business management systems up to the same Premier League standard as its players, who will be accounted for as assets in the system.
The system will be accessed by over 300 finance and non-finance users within the club for core accounting/financials, budgeting and forecasting, procurement and reporting and analytics.
The UNIT4 ERP’s unique VITA architecture has been designed from the ground up to help users easily adapt the system, in line with ongoing business or operational change.
Manchester City head of Finance Andrew Widdowson said the Club is going through a lot of change and like any commercial enterprise is always looking for ways to drive greater efficiency and boost financial performance and profitability.
"Agresso allows us to make any necessary changes to the system ourselves, even after implementation, without the need for costly external consultants," Widdowson said.
"It is a flexible, functionally rich and highly configurable system that will generate the accurate and comprehensive financial and wider management information we need to help improve our understanding of the Club’s performance and help us to achieve our long term objective of being one of the world’s leading football clubs, both on and off the field."
