Telecom Expense Management (TEM)
According to the Aberdeen Group, "Cell phones, smartphones and other mobile devices have transformed the workplace by bringing a new level of consumerized technology to the enterprise market. Companies with in-house solutions averaged 2.4 FTEs per 1,000 devices to manage wireless expenses."
Is your telecom and network services infrastructure an asset essential to the running of your business? Managing this asset is critical – realizing your inventory, keeping costs down and controlling growth. The process of managing infrastructure expenses can be overwhelming. Many companies have complex environments with a multitude of challenges; multiple services, multiple carriers, and converging technologies to name a few.
Telecom invoices are typically complex, and IPI has the means to decipher the billing, verify the accuracy and in most cases find and correct billing mistakes. By combining our expertise with effective tools we provide the visibility that is essential to managing your telecom infrastructure. Such expertise as:
- Audit billing on an ongoing basis
- Inventory rightsizing
- Validation of Expenses
- Validation of Contract Compliance
- Validation of tariffs and USOCs
- Business Rules Management
- Chargeback and Allocations
- Reporting/Visibility
- Optimization of Services:
- Rate plan analysis for wireless services
- Following up on disconnected services to confirm that billing has stopped
- Contract Evaluation
- Network RFP Management
- Contract negotiation
