Municipality. Introduction
The municipality can use information from the cash management center if the BAS-population program is working there, or establish our special design, ie an information system for managing Housing and Utility Sector of a city or an entire region.
The software for Housing and Utility Sectors, management companies and payment-processing centers has the opportunity to connect municipal authorities and provide them with the information that is available at enterprises of this level.
The information system for the municipality has additional possibilities for automatically collecting information from all points of the lower level of Housing and Utility Sector and its delivery to the central database. Functional capabilities of the system allow the processing of information and the allocation of the necessary data to make management decisions and to achieve the above goals:
- Increase of payments for utilities and energy resources
- Increase of efficiency of operative management of Housing and Utility Sector
- Improvement of the social situation in the region
Increasing the efficiency of operational management of housing and communal services is solved by:
- Availability of information on the level of payment at various stages of payments
- Providing data on the nature of the processes associated with payments
- Provision of operational data on the current status of payments
The ability to monitor enterprises working with the population is ensured by the availability of information on the current state of mutual settlements between utility providers and their consumers and also in the calculation of trends in the development of settlement parameters in a visual form. The system can provide information on a single enterprise or a summary of Housing and Utility Sector enterprises in the whole region. It allows you to draw conclusions about the need to make certain decisions with respect to the settlement centers of management companies or utility providers.
The availability of operational information makes it possible to perform a comparative evaluation of the operation of the same type of enterprises in various municipal formations of the region and draw conclusions about their efficiency. The other side is the availability of information on the progress of money from the population to energy suppliers and the identification of places where they are delayed. If there is an initial data on the dates and amounts of transfer of money between Housing and Utility Sector participants, the information system will provide information on enterprises that have already received money for their services but have not yet settled with their suppliers.
Another task that can be solved only with the help of the Integrated Information System is the forecasting of payments. The system knows the patterns (schedules) of payment by the population; it is known where the money is already received and the patterns of money advancement. Therefore, it is possible to solve the problem of calculating the amount of receipt to a particular supplier on a given date in the near future.
Operative information on the current status of payments (on the amounts of payments in absolute terms and data on the ratio of charges and payments), the trends in their changes also allows planning the volumes of energy supplies and the need for additional funds at the current time.