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LW Theatres<\/p>\n\n\n

New integrated invoicing system for LW Theatres in London<\/h1>\n\n<\/div>\n\n
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LW Theatres, owned by the legendary producer of musicals Andrew Lloyd Webber, operates a group of seven London theatres from the Adelphi and Cambridge Theatre to the London Palladium. The group dates back to 1977, and was rebranded from The Really Useful Theatres to LW Theatres in July 2018. Although the central organisation and retail group negotiate deals for volume items consumed across all its premises, individual theatre managers can handle their own pur\u00adchasing and are responsible for sending invoices to head offce for authorisation and payment.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n

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The theatre group bore the mounting cost of paper storage, as it archived physical invoices<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Until two years ago, this happened manually and invoices would sometimes go astray. For purchasing teams that had established strong relationships with regular sup\u00adpliers over many years, this could lead to awkward\u00adness if they had to chase for a late or missing payment. At the same time, the theatre group bore the mounting cost of paper storage, as it archived physical invoices.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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\u201cWe typically process between 100-150 invoices each week, amounting to more than 6,000 a year \u2013 that\u2019s a lot of paper folders to file,\u201d says Sabina Kraslova, LW Thea\u00adtres\u2019 Financial Controller. Once processed, boxes of files were sent to off-site storage to be kept for the mandatory six years dictated by HMRC. When processing tax returns or performing audits, the Finance team might then have to call back some of those files to check invoice details against accounting entries. All of which was far from effcient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, the over-reliance on paper (distributed be\u00adtween the theatres and head offce by internal mail) was at odds with LW Theatres\u2019 environmental goals. \u201cFrom addressing single-use plastic to going paperless, our policy is to introduce more environmentally friendly practices,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n

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The deployment went very smoothly, and the transition was great \u2013 it happened really quickly.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sabina Kraslova,<\/strong>
LW Thea\u00adtres\u2019 Financial Controller<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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PROJEcT INFORMATION<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything is much more efficient now<\/h2>\n\n\n
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