Case Study: Omni Hotels achieves real-time spend control and prevents overcharges with BirchStreet Systems

Omni Hotels Takes Control of Spending with BirchStreet

Omni Hotels, led in sourcing by VP Jim Kuthy, faced the challenge of managing purchases across hundreds of distributors with constantly changing supplier prices and limited contract compliance visibility. To centralize and automate purchasing, Omni deployed BirchStreet Systems’ procure-to-pay platform and data warehouse to gain near 20/20 visibility and guaranteed real-time pricing.

BirchStreet Systems implemented order-transmission and price-enforcement functionality that holds distributors to the price at time of purchase and enables supplier credits when delivery prices exceed contracted rates. The solution streamlined procure-to-pay, delivered real-time analytics and top-down control over purchasing and brand standards, and has prevented hundreds of thousands of dollars in pricing discrepancies.

Omni Hotels

Jim Kuthy

Vice President, Strategic Sourcing