REVENUE ACCOUNTING OUTSOURCING SERVICES IN THE MARKETPLACE
There are many types of
airline revenue accounting bureau and audit services available in this field, providing anything from single-problem out-sourcing to full spectrum revenue accounting services. The ones mentioned here are those we feel may be of most interest to readers, but we would be happy to hear of any others which readers find useful and beneficial.
Please note that Mazro is not an
agent for any of these revenue accounting services and receives no fee for making these
services known to the industry. For more detailed information, please
contact the suppliers directly through the links provided.
If you require support in assessing
your revenue accounting needs and the suitability of particular solutions, we would be happy to
assist. Please
contact us for further information on how we can help.
UPDATE:
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in 2007. Airlines and suppliers should prepare to make the necessary changes
to systems and processes, including particularly changes to IDEC handling,
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AAS
A UK-based operator, providing a revenue accounting service to smaller airlines headquartered mainly in Europe. The service is based on the Global GARAS2 system, originally designed for the Airlines of Britain group. Conversion to in-house operation is also offered. They can be reached at their website.
AFS
Originally a Swissair group company specialising in revenue accounting, though other services are also offered. AFS mainly supports the Swiss group, but offers revenue accounting services to the rest of the airline market.
Recently bought out by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). To contact AFS, visit their website.
Kale
MPS
From their Managed
Process Service Centre in Mumbai, India,
Kale provides services to the Airline industry world-wide. Their solution
suite includes services for Passenger Revenue Accounting, Proration, Fare
Audit, Deal Management and others based on their REVERA, PRISM and FAREGAIN
products. The MPS service can also be based on the airline's own
revenue accounting systems. Further information can be obtained from
their website.
Lufthansa Revenue Services
Part of the Lufthansa group, the Revenue Services division operates as a separate profit centre, providing services to Lufthansa itself as well as to third parties. The service is based in Hamburg. Lufthansa Revenue Services provides third party support to smaller airlines, generally in Europe, using the Mercator 'Rapid' system, which operates on the 'first-coupon' principle. For further information, see their website at Revenue-Accounting.
Mercator Revenue Accounting Bureau Service
Based on Mercator's Rapid system, and hosted in Dubai. The
recently-inaugurated service operates out of Mumbai and provides a full
range of basic and supplementary revenue accounting services. More details
are available on their
website.
Navitaire
Owned by Accenture, they use the PRA system developed by Andersen Consulting and Northwest Airlines. They provide a range of services,
from ASP service up to and including full revenue accounting support. The service
is provided from Manila and operated from data centres in Minneapolis and
Sydney. Their clients are mostly based in North America and Asia/Pacific. For further information see their website at
Navitaire.
PRG-Schultz
A global revenue recovery service provider, which has moved into the airline
business relatively recently. In the airline industry, they focus
principally on fare, sales and travel audit from their
UK office.
Profit Recovery Systems
Based in the USA, they offer a fare audit and incentive commission calculation service, together with receivables management and fraud detection support. They can analyse sales data, validate gross or net fares, and generate debit memos. Software applications are also available for some aspects of the service. We have been advised by Profit Recovery Systems that they have recently extended the scope of their offerings to make them more applicable to airlines trading outside the USA, which has not been the case in the past. They also plan to add other services such as ticket tax audit, and cargo audit. For further information on present and future services, see their website.
WNS Group
Once part of Speedwing, but recently sold to Warburg Pincus, WNS Group offers a full service using the Jade system, which is sales-based. The service is based in Mumbai, and benefits from its low costs. All functions are available, including the Deal Management option. This allows the client airline to have full control over its marketplace pricing initiatives, leaving the validation to the Jade system. For further information on outsourced accounting from
WNS Group, see their web page.
ZeroOcta
A UK-based firm providing ticket-based audit services, including fares, class
abuse, discounts and refunds, as well as an ADM generation and follow-up
service from their offices in India. Reach them via
their website.