Each month, a new forecast should be submitted for the coming months. This can be done via the Planning pages in PMI. There are 3 simple steps to this process which should be done by the controller or GM. Step 1: Set up a plan Go to Planning setup in the main menu. 1. If you already have a forecast from last month, select ‘Roll forward’.    ...
What is sense check mode? Sense check is a feature to help minimize errors in your data. It highlights obvious errors and values that seem extreme so you can review, correct or validate as needed. Sense check appears as an option on pages in PMI that have data tables, including GoGreen planning and Staffing. How to use sense check 1. Tick the box...
What is GoGreen Planning? Planning is a new module that initially supports the GoGreen cockpits with financial elements for environmental targets. This module is prepopulated using the latest Live Forecast and estimates based on historical financial (P&L) data. This article is geared toward department heads, controllers and GMs with budget...
What is GoGreen planning? Planning is a new module that initially supports the GoGreen cockpits with financial elements for environmental targets. This module is prepopulated using the latest Live forecast and estimates based on historical financial (P&L) data. This article is geared toward department heads, controllers and GMs with access...
Example used is kWh from GoGreen. This shows the quantity of each resource we expect to use. The values come from the Live Forecast when this plan was first created.  It’s fair to say that the values may differ in Live Forecast today, that’s why best practise is to review and submit your values as soon as the plan is created. You can edit the...
Example used is Energy. This shows an estimated average price for each month in the plan and is combined with the usage (multiplied) to get the values. You can edit these prices as required. You can see there is added a price of 1 for gas in most months below. The header for this section includes a basic reminder of where the data shown comes...
The ‘Save changes’ button ensures the changes made to the plan are saved for furture edits. At this stage, the values only exist in this view. To make the plan values (cost of energy and estimated unit prices) available elsewhere, they need to be submitted by clicking the ‘Submit to cockpits’ button. This immediately updates all pages (depts)...
Example used is Energy. This first section in the data table is the plan (budget) numbers in the currency shown in the header. It displays in thousands (K) and in the local currency.These values cannot be edited directly. They reflect values in the next sections based on the formula displayed at the top of the page. We have designed it to ensure...
Example used is Towels & linen Use this chart to see at a glance the general shape of your plan (blue bars) against the comparative period (gray) as pre-set and the level of guest nights planned (purple line). This enables you to see if the cost level decreases when guest nights decreases or displays seasonality as expected. If the chart...
The charts below (Towels & linen and Energy are used in this example), displays whether your plan shows year-on-year (YoY) improvement, considering the activity levels.   The plan values for each month are divided by a relevant productivity measure such as guest nights or hotel area in square meters and compared to the same calculation for...
The diagram below shows the correlation between the formula elements which calculates the unit price to get the plan value you expect.In the diagram here below the forecast comes from kg from GoGreen multiplied by price per kg. Always ensure you are in the department/resource you are responsible for. The same applies when choosing Chemicals, Food...
What is comparative data? It is a set of data that you compare your draft plan against.  The dataset shown under comparative data is also used to calculate other elements of your new plan.  Look for … ‘based on comparative data’… in a section header like this: Comparative data is often just last year’s actual costs for the department and cost...
Example used is Towels & linen. This is the traditional view of a budget with numbers by month.  We have included a total column showing the sum of all months in the plan (which could be anything between 6 & 18 months). The column Avg./month is the sum of all months divided by the number of months in the plan. Note that you...
What is Planning? Planning version setup is where you create draft budgets and forecasts for GoGreen, Room revenue, and Labor costs.  PMI prepopulates this plan using the latest Live forecast and estimates based on historical financial (P&L) data. The forecast can then be reviewed and manually adjusted before it is submitted as the forecast...