About
Five-Star AudioVisual, Inc. was founded in 1995 and is proud to be celebrating over 28 years of success! We are honored to serve as a boutique audiovisual company to the luxury market segment of the hospitality industry, providing the highest level of service possible for our partners and their guests. Throughout our distinguished history, we have stayed at the forefront of technology, specializing in the continued development of innovative strategies and implementation of high-level service standards. We become a seamless partner as we embrace the history, culture, and character of each client and their community while creating immersive experiences that reflect their individual personalities, ideals, and goals
The Challenge
Five Star was looking for their next generation software business tool to better manage, provide control and empower 200+ users in over 70+ different sites across all US time zones. This would also include consolidating scores of different inventory pools into regional and national inventories. Another key requirement was to have the ability to view its entire inventory across all sites. This was crucial as consolidation of inventory fosters sharing equipment through Transfers and Pooling.
Five Star also wanted to standardize item definitions, pricing, policies, and procedures and automate their PO policies for enhanced efficiencies, improved productivity, and ultimately superior customer service.
The Solution
Five Star choose R2 for its deep, functional, user configurable and global best practices-oriented benefits. UBS project management team first conducted a detailed workflow analysis to implement the best software configuration and to tailor the solution to Five Star’s specific business needs.
“The entire UBS team is delighted in partnering with Five Star to help their operations better manage equipment, processes and protocols across all key departments” states Vic Khosla, Vice President, Business Development at UBS. “Five Star now has access to real-time information about their assets, enabling them to make better informed decisions every day!”
“Due to the recent implementation of the R2 software, our company has also taken advantage of the built-in master bill benefits that R2 has to offer” states Joe Burgher, Controller at Five Star. “Because of that, we have real-time cost analysis across all our properties throughout our operational domain”.
With PMP practices combined with a very experienced R2 project management team, Five Star enjoyed a smooth implementation while incurring many efficiencies throughout their process flows. Five Star super users also worked hand in hand with the UBS team to build R2 expertise within their organization for autonomy in building future workflow as the company continues to experience tremendous growth.