Press Release

Mumbai, 9 February 2011: Kale Consultants Ltd., the leading provider of solutions to the airline and travel industry, announced its FINESSE MBS Solution, to streamline Miscellaneous Billing processes at airlines. The solution will also help airlines become   SIS (Simplified Interline Settlement) compliant. FINESSE MBS will be offered in hosted and outsourced models on a pay-per-use basis, thereby reducing deployment time and optimizing usage.
 
FINESSE MBS is currently live and operational at a leading Asian Airline. Commenting on the launch of FINESSE MBS, Ms. Neela Bhattacherjee, Head – Airlines SBU, said “With the airline industry moving towards mandatory SIS compliance, airlines are taking proactive steps to ensure that their miscellaneous billing processes and systems are aligned to the future. MBS is the need of the hour as this is an area which is still a manual process at many airlines. In keeping with other solutions Kale offers, MBS will be available on a pay-per-use basis, a model which has proved beneficial for our customers.”

FINESSE MBS’ strong and flexible contract management system allows all miscellaneous services such as ground handling, engineering and partner alliances to be defined at a granular level and mapped to SIS category codes. MBS is also flexible in seamlessly integrating with an airline’s other billing systems to import charge-lines and raise invoices through SIS. It also has very innovative features such as event scheduler that can schedule invoices at defined intervals thereby ensuring that all the billings are done on a timely basis. MBS tracks every flight to be serviced and provides alerts to management in case the services have not been invoiced. Since the entire pricing processes can be automated through pricing engine, it significantly reduces manual efforts and errors that lead to rejections.

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