CAT Financial Management System

Community Academies Trust (the Trust) wishes to enter into a contract with a Supplier or Suppliers to supply, implement and support a Financial Management System (FMS), for use by the Trust and all of its current and future Academies. The trust considers that a successful FMS is made up of 3 integrated and inter-dependant parts:1. A purchase order processing (POP) system to raise orders and potentially post invoices2. A finance system (FS) to record and report on financial transactions3. Budget planning software (BPS) to allow the trust to monitor performance against budget and model future years budget scenarios.