Cost Allocation provides business units with a way to control their telecom costs and provide greater transparency into the drivers of IT costs. Traditionally in the past, organizations experienced cost allocation challenges such as:

• Integrating the telecom recharge system with multiple general ledgers and currencies.
• Complying with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements.
• Empowering department managers to control the consumption of services.
• Managing costs, not only by cost centers, but also by individuals, through general ledger codes or any combination of these.

MDSL ‘Cost Allocation’ module provides telecom chargeback services to some of the world’s largest organizations. It simplifies and vastly reduces the cost of the Telecom chargeback process, while improving accuracy and cost transparency throughout the organization by combining a flexible cost allocation engine with easy to use web enabled reports.

The call allocation module deals with the complexities of inter-company accounting, international currencies, multi tax regimes, and global organizational structures.

The foundation of the allocation module is the result of 11 years of experience of leadership in the cost management market.

Cost Allocation Management

• Align telecom usage with cost through automatic usage-level chargeback
• Ensure fair cost allocation with percentage-level chargeback
• Customize your chargeback requirements by applying customized business rules. Allocate cost to business units, individual, group of cost code or a combination of these and apply a percentage when the service is shared.
• Compare telecom budgets with cost through General-ledgers code analytics
• Automate cost allocation with an automatic interface to back-office financials

Cost Transparency

• Empower department managers to control consumption of services with web enabled reports
• Allow managers to analyze cost in their local currency

Benefits

Clear and fair cost allocation

The MDSL ‘Cost Allocation’ module enables enterprise-wide cost analysis of telecom usage and infrastructure charges. It allows you to allocate, distribute or charge telecom costs to users, cost centers, group of cost centers or a combination of these in a manner that is fair, understandable, auditable and easy to administer.

Improve Cost Transparency

MDSL TEM provides a centralized view of your telecom accounting data which allows approved users to view reports on the web. Each user will be restricted to their coverage zone (geographic, organization or both) and view costs and usage within the limit of their coverage.

Easy to read reports

The extensive customizable reporting features ensure managers or single users (for mobile bills for example) to view both high-level and detailed information with a few clicks of a mouse.