Automating the
procure-to-pay process

Companies are constantly looking for better ways to improve efficiency while lowering costs in the telecom arena. For leading procurement professionals, the solution is to adopt a procurement software solution that creates recurrent cost savings, delivers cross-organisation spend visibility, promotes accurate decision-making and employs best practices on which to develop an efficient telecom procurement infrastructure.

MDSL’s Telecoms Expense Manager (TEM) is a proven procurement software solution that helps telecom professionals meet three main objectives:

• 1) Deliver measurable bottom-line results

  The main objective of every procurement software solution is to deliver cost savings to the organisation and improve overall profitability. Savings can take the form of credit from invoice validation and the eradication of overcharging, the cancelation of unused or redundant services and the automation of internal business practices. Ultimately, one of the biggest cost saving comes from the successful re-negotiation of contracts and this is the result of the following objective – spend visibility.

• 2) Ensure spend visibility

  In order to implement successful spend management solutions, one of the critical first steps is to understand what is being purchased, from where and how the purchases comply with organisational standards. MDSL’s TEM solution provides accurate, real-time details of your telecom equipment and services, giving you complete visibility of the procure-to-pay-process and allowing you to access and analyse current spend data and gain a greater insight into future spend.

• 3) Control the telecom procure-to-pay process

  With the ever-growing importance of mobile services, a best-in-class TEM solution must help organisations to control service requests – yet also provide an easy-to-use interface for end-users. MDSL’s TEM solution enables the deployment of a complete telecom procure-to-pay process solution working alongside general procurement solutions such as Ariba and SAP or on its own. The solution ensures that every request complies with the terms and condition negotiated in contracts and monitors user trends, vendor SLAs, discount thresholds and other important parameters which are difficult to monitor without the proper TEM solution.

  The MDSL TEM solution leads to impressive results:

  • Automating the end-to-end purchasing lifecycle
  • Creating the "glue" between separate existing enterprise applications
  • Improving end-user experience and cost responsibility
  • Creating cost visibilty accros the whole organisation

  To find out more about the procurement advantages MDSL’s Telecoms Expense Manager delivers, please call us on +44 (0) 1892 545 353 or contact us via e-mail.