- 2011 October Spend Management
- "Gartner eProcurement report– it’s our pick of the pops countdown!"
- .... Earlier this week we provided an overview of the Gartner eProcurement report, which covers 32 firms who provide P2P technology and rates their product against eleven criteria. They are rated using “Harvey Bubbles” – essentially a 0-4 scoring system.......
- 2011 July Hospitality Net
- "AAHOA Chairman Hits a Home Run; Universal Franchisee Bill of Rights; HomeSpun; Quote of the Month"
- .... At the recent AAHOA Convention in Las Vegas, Chairman C.K. Patel reported on the following five major initiatives which have been activated and will soon be implemented.......
- 2011 July Hotel News Now
- "Innovative product news from the tradeshow floor"
- .... The latest BirchStreet offering, the advanced Recipe Management application includes a built-in 15,000 ingredient library, nutritional data, powerful recipe scaling features, tools to determine recipe profitability and more. The first enterprise recipe management solution optimized for the Apple iPad and other touchpads, the Recipe Management application streamlines food service, adding more capabilities and convenience.......
- 2011 June Blue MauMau
- "Franchisees Launch Pioneering ePurchasing Coop"
- .... Hotel franchisees announced Friday that they will launch their own cooperative purchasing program. Members of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association will be able to purchase furniture, fixtures, food, beverages, equipment and supplies more economically and efficiently through an innovative new Internet-based purchasing cooperative.......
- 2011 May Vertical Systems Reseller
- "Top 10 Hospitality Technology Trends"
- .... Restaurants are tapping the portability of tablets to perform back-of-house restaurant functions such as recipe, purchasing and inventory management. BirchStreet Systems’ (www.birchstreet.net) Recipe Pad, for example, enables users to browse, search and view photographs of preparation instructions as well as edit and ‘play’ with recipes to determine cost and profitability......
- 2011 April Hospitality Technology
- "Hilton Reveals the Benefits of E-Procurement"
- ....E-Procurement systems enable hospitality organizations to better streamline operations and eliminate rogue spend. At Hilton, our organization benefits from a web-based e-Procurement system used in the majority of our UK and European properties, as well as in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Sydney. A significant benefit is to disseminate information – essentially instructing buyers on what to purchase – and to collect spend information from all properties in order to centrally analyze it.....
- 2010 November Hospitality Times
- "BirchStreet Improves Inventory Control Application"
- ....BirchStreet Systems, Inc., a leading provider of e-Procurement and automation solutions to the hospitality industry, announces the latest edition of its Inventory Control application....
- 2010 September TimeShare & Travel News
- "BirchStreet and Avendra Team Up to Provide New Complementary Offerings"
- ....One of the leading e-procurement and purchasing system providers in the hospitality industry, BirchStreet Systems announced a new venture with Avendra.....
- 2010 September Travel Daily News International
- "BirchStreet and Avendra announce strategic alliance"
- ....BirchStreet Systems, the hospitality industry’s leading e-procurement and purchasing system provider, announced a new agreement with Avendra.....
- 2010 January Hospitality Technology Magazine
- "Industry Q&A: Hilton Exec Retells Journey to Int'l Procurement Savings"
- ...While he worked with several vendors across different procurement disciplines, BirchStreet Systems was selected as the sole global technology provider...
- 2009 September Hospitality Biz India
- "BirchStreet Systems provides Omni Hotels with web-based e-procurement solution"
- ...Omni Hotels, has now fully implemented BirchStreet's web-based e-procurement solution.
- 2009 September Datamonitor
- "Omni Hotels has implemented BirchStreet Systems's web-based e-procurement solution."
- ...As a result, all of Omni's owned and managed properties are leveraging the new online marketplace portal to manage and process their purchasing transactions...
- 2009 September Hospitality Technology Magazine
- "Mission Accomplished: Omni Hotels Achieves Seamless Purchasing Process with Help from E-Procurement Tool"
- Omni Hotels announces that it has now fully implemented BirchStreet's Web-based e-procurement solution...
- 2009 September Orange County Business Journal
- "Software Startup Nabs Private Equity Investor"
- ...TECHNOLOGY: Private equity invests in hotel software maker ...
- 2009 September Dallas Business Journal
- "PlumTree invests in BirchStreet"
- ...In an unusual move, an area private equity firm has taken a minority stake in a West Coast supplier of procurement software to the hospitality industry ...
- 2009 September Orange County Business Journal
- "The Power of e-Procurement: Maintaining Your Brand Through Technology"
- Newport Beach-based BirchStreet Systems Inc., a maker of software for running hotels and restaurants, said Friday it received an investment from Dallas-based private equity firm PlumTree Partners...
- 2009 August GlobalHotelNetwork
- "The Power of e-Procurement: Maintaining Your Brand Through Technology"
- ...The Web has made geography a non-issue and the best of these new [industry-specific software] offerings have leveraged the Web to provide a portfolio-wide footprint, with multi-property brand management in mind. ...
- 2009 June The Gartner Group
- "Critical Capabilities for Best-of-Breed E-Procurement Vendors"
- ...Critical Capabilities for Best of Breed E-Procurement Vendors assesses the capabilities and prospects of 14 vendors including Ariba, Basware, Birchstreet Systems, ...
- 2009 June Lodging Hospitality
- "Davis Goes Back to BirchStreet"
- ...John F. Davis III, the well-known industry veteran who founded and built the industry's global reservations network on which virtually every hotel operates today, is on track for building yet another standard for the industry. ...
- 2009 May Business Travel News
- "BTN's Silver Anniversary: Top of the Top 25s"
- ..The longtime president and CEO of Pegasus Systems, John Davis III dominated electronic hotel distribution in the 1990s... He now is CEO of hotel e-procurement provider BirchStreet Systems...
- 2009 May Buyer Interactive
- "Steven Henderson, Hilton Supply Management, Oversees Purchasing Overseas"
- ...We pre-load supplier details into [our BirchStreet system]. We were able to have one tool in the hotel that it could refer to for all pricing and all approved vendors. Without it, a hotel would have to phone a local procurement office or make unilateral decisions...
- 2009 April Hospitality Upgrade
- "Vendor Update - Spring 2009: BirchStreet Further Strengthens Credibility in Market"
- Further strengthening its credibility in the hospitality market, BirchStreet recently hired two long-time industry veterans John F. Davis III as CEO, and David Chestler as senior vice president of sales and marketing.
- 2009 March Fort Worth Star Telegram
- "Recession or not, contrarian investors are bargain-hunting"
- ...Davis is a serial entrepreneur, who co-founded 800-FLOWERS and later started Pegasus Solutions, which linked the reservation systems of hotels and airlines. His new company, BirchStreet Systems, works the other side of the hotel business, providing software that helps to lower the cost of supplies...
- 2009 March Hotel & Motel Management
- "Purchasing partnerships; Procurement companies can deliver savings to your hotels"
- ...It gives management the ability to see a history of what items cost," says John Davis, CEO of BirchStreet Systems, a purchasing software company. "if you buy the same things, it gives you the ability to track what it costs in real time. ...
- 2009 February Hotels Magazine
- "On the Move"
- ...BirchStreet Systems Inc., a provider of hospitality industry e-procurement and back office automation solutions, appoints ex-Pegasus Solutions executive David Chestler senior vice president of sales and marketing...
- 2009 January Lodging Hospitality
- "Vendor News"
- ...John F. Davis III was named CEO at BirchStreet Systems. Davis recently retired from Pegasus Solutions, the company he launched in 1989...
- 2008 September Texas Christian University
- "Pegasus Founder John F. Davis III named Executive-in-Residence"
- ...John F. Davis II, Founder of Pegasus Solutions Inc a leading worldwide provider of hotel reservations-related services and technology, has joined the Neeley School of Business at TCU as executive-in-residence beginning September 2008...
- 2008 September Hospitality Technology
- "Intercontinental Chicago O'Hare Hotel Selects e-Procurement, Back-office Automation Solution"
- ...The InterContinental Chicago O'Hare selects the Single Property Solution from BirchStreet Systems to streamline purchasing and inventory control...
- 2008 May Hospitality Technology
- "BirchStreet Expands Products Portfolio Beyond eProcurement"
- ...BirchStreet Systems, a provider of hosted hospitality management software solutions, announces that its growth continues with the expansion of their products portfolio...
- 2008 May SupplyChainBrain
- "Global Logistics & Supply Chain Strategies: BirchStreet Project, Procurement Suite Helps Manage Carlson Hotels Renovation"
- ...Carlson Hotels Worldwide is relying in part on BirchStreet Systems to track and manage furniture and equipment procurement, and to manage project timelines as it renovates more than 250 Country Inns & Suites throughout North America...
- 2008 April Lodging Hospitality
- "Bandwidth in the Back Office" by BirchStreet's Doug Sanborn
- ...The procurement and accounts-payable processing for a major lodging operation, if not automated, can be a costly, time-consuming, manually intensive process with a high rate of error and minimal reporting options. In the past, the cost of deploying on-premise automation solutions was often prohibitive. Today, SaaS-based solutions tailored to lodging can be deployed at a fraction of the cost of yesterday's on-premise solutions...
- 2008 February Hotel Management International
- "Hilton Installs Procurement System in French Properties"
- ...Hilton Hotels has installed BirchStreet Systems' online e-Procurement System in its French properties. The BirchStreet Application Suite provides Hilton with a single online portal to conduct all procurement activity...
- 2007 November Hotel Business
- "Omni Deploys Online E-Procurement System"
- ...Omni Hotels is now deploying an online e-procurement system from BirchStreet using the supplier's hosted software offering...
- 2007 November Mikrofax.com
- "Technical solutions: Hotel chain to implement eprocurement"
- Omni Hotels has announced that it is to introduce an online eprocurement system across its company's operations...
- 2007 November Manufacturing Business Technology
- "How to get the most value from e-procurement tools"
- ...Electronic procurement, virtually unknown just eight years ago, is standard technology in nearly all companies today. E-procurement solutions initially served procurement department functions exclusively, but today its scope in some cases has expanded to that of enterprise wide systems...
- 2007 August Hospitality Technology
- "Global Hyatt Implements System-Wide e-Procurement Solution"
- ...The Global Hyatt Corporation selectes a new e-Procurement solution provided by BirchStreet Systems to streamline its purchasing processes for all Hyatt properties worldwide...
- 2007 August Procurement Leaders
- "Hyatt Corporation Announce New Global E-procurement Agreement"
- ...The Global Hyatt Corporation selectes a new e-Procurement solution provided by BirchStreet Systems to streamline its purchasing processes for all Hyatt properties worldwide...
- 2007 July 14 Purchasing.com
- "Tool Kit for E-Procurement"
- Jeff Fisk, controller for Milwaukee-based Marcus Hotels and Resorts, rolled out the BirchStreet e-procurement suite across all 18 of the Marcus Hotels. "If we've established a standard for staplers, we can tell all of our business units, and each department, that this is the stapler that you are allowed to buy," he says. Since the suppliers now update their prices automatically through the system, there's an eliminated step for buyers but the end result for purchasing internally is compliance and time savings.
- 2007 May Institute for Supply Management
- "Case Study: An e-Procurement Solution Within Hilton Hotels Corporation -- Using Reality As Your Guide "
- ...the value drivers and implementation approach used by Hilton Hotels Corporation to deploy a single enterprise level e-procurement system across all business units, brands and supply chains....
- 2007 April E-Commerce Times
- "EXPERT ADVICE: Harnessing the Power of E-Procurement" by BirchStreet's Doug Sanborn
- ...As you gain more confidence in your ability to measure, predict and control spend, you can be more aggressive with volume commitments to suppliers in exchange for better pricing. As you set up contracts in new categories, you will reconfigure the e-procurement system to tighten controls accordingly to drive volume to those contracts...