Chapter 7: Operations

The Operations Module – The End of the Story

Operations is where passenger counts from Bookings impact the costs of Contracted Services from Vendor, thereby creating Accounts Payable. Operations is where you can also produce travel documents for passengers, escorts and drivers – as well as generate inventory/utilization reports.

For every Contracted Services record used to build an itinerary in one or more Packages, there will be a corresponding Operations record. This record will reflect the price and inventory data as loaded back in Vendor; as well as the number of passengers using that service once there is activity in Bookings. Operations is more or less the “end of the story”, since it’s here that you will come to record payments to your vendors, as well as run a variety of reports and documents when it comes time to finalize your tour.