ASIA(as)
ASIA(as) – accounting system, main tool of the Service «Accounting, aUdit and Reconciliation for Airlines (AURA)» (the Service). Functions as information and technology provider for business processes of Airline’s accounting of passenger, mail and cargo air transportation for.
The Service is an out-of-the-box solution that allows to substantially decrease expenses for supporting business-processes, replacing numerous staff of “accounting centre”.
Within the Service, the following is done:
- Automated processing of all incoming digital information flows, all complied to international industry standards:
- Reference information and data for billing and pricing
- Operational sales data from GDS Ticketing;
- Passenger sales reports from agencies as well as from settlement systems like BSP, ARC and ТCH
- Cargo sales reports by freight agencies
- Reports about final statuses of e-tickets and EMD from ETS and EMD servers
- Cargo manifests from cargo terminals of airports
- Interline bills (primary and claiming) from IATA SIS members as well as within bilateral agreements
- Payment systems invoices
- Flight tasks, load sheets, crew information from fleet management information systems
- Supervisor acts through mobile application
- Invoices from GH and other servicing firms
- Transactions reports from banks
- Automated procedures of pricing and proration of transportation
- Creating a digital version of all necessary outgoing information flows for settlements with providers, clients and Airline partners
- Sales completeness check for taxes and fees application
- Automated control of agency commission, interline partners, payment systems;
- Automated control of bills from payment acceptance systems
- Complete spectre of international billing in full accordance with IATA RAM requirements, including IATA SIS
- Preparing and conducting claim correspondence in following directions:
- Sales agencies
- Sales consolidators
- Interline partners
- Ground handlers
- Acquirers
- Online audit of traffic documents against the use of coupons of the document and the convergence of the amounts of the tariff and taxes between sales and use;
- Accounting of flights servicing acts with calculation of service costs at the approved rates;
- Automatic acceptance of services of servicing firms and airports;
- Air works accounting
- Preparation of standard report forms for industry regulators;
- Preparation of analytical and statistical data for internal use in the Airline;
- Accounting and control of financial obligations.
The Service operatively ensures full readiness when new formats and data exchange technologies appear or are changed before they are launched into commercial operation in the industry. In the absence of a generally accepted format for any information flow, the Service is complemented by its proprietary formats.
Software and databases are located on a neutral site, supported by Avisoftica specialists. Such approach is highly efficient for the User:
- No need to hire highly qualified and expensive specialists for periodic work related to the maintenance of the System;
- No need to expand, increase and maintain the relevance of hardware and software both in the server and client sides;
- Avisoftica specialists have profile education and rich experience in supporting and operating of the System. Airline does not have to train its own employees and maintain their level of competence.
The service is organized for the Airline in the most accessible way. Communication with the accounting system is minimized, however where it is needed an intuitive interface is provided. This approach has the following advantages:
- Having identified and organized business processes using the Service, the Airline has documents ready for use (drafts of invoices, claims, letters, etc.);
- To increase efficiency, mobile applications are widely used to input data.
- Worked out and ready to be connected with other information systems of the Airline (such as fleet management systems, bookkeeping systems, etc.).
As part of the Service, Avisoftica provides implementation of new business processes with the involvement of its own staff for:
- Development or reengineering of business processes using the Service. Mapping and creating descriptions of accounting business processes;
- Coordination, with adjacent departments of the Airline, interaction with both the Service itself and the external environment of the Airline
- Organizing seamless docking and automating communications between information systems.
Using ASIA(as) is a qualitative transition from “paper-based” accounting technologies (even if using “electronic paper”) to digital technologies will provide your Airline with the following benefits:
- Automation and unification of accounting technologies and air traffic audit;
- Readyness to comply with any international technology, which in turn ensures the freedom of choice of suppliers, customers and partners;
- Reduction of direct expenses for the Airline personnel engaged in the accounting sector;
- High reliability and accuracy of the Service, which do not require constant administrative control;
- Transparent and optimal business processes.