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The Benefits of Workplace & Supplier Diversity: Infographic

Did you know that companies with diverse workforces and diverse supplier relationships are more innovative, more productive, and have stronger financials? Check out our latest infographic to see more detail about these benefits.

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The Benefits of Employee and Supplier Diversity (+How to Increase Diversity Spending)

Diversifying your supplier base drives innovation, cost-savings, and client satisfaction. See how diversity delivers big impacts in our latest blog.

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AMI Strategies & Utilities Savings

AMI Strategies’ technology expense management platform, temNOW™, leverages a combination of AI and industry-leading partnerships to help companies streamline, manage, and optimize their utility invoices and contracts.

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Optimizing Cloud Environments for Security, Transparency & Savings

AMI Strategies’ cloud expense management platform, cloudNOW™, leverages a combination of AI and industry-leading partnerships to help companies manage and optimize cloud services.

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International Bill Pay With Corpay Cross-Border Solutions

International Bill Pay AMI has partnered with Corpay (formerly Cambridge Global Payments) to bring

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Fractured Inventory

Invoice
Cost & Usage Details

General Ledger
Cost Centers

Human Resources
Business Owners

Procurement
Contracted Rates & Terms

IT Asset Management
Hardware Details

MDM/UEM
Software & Applications

Information Security
Policies

Information Technology
Backup & Maintenance Services

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AMI's Average Turnaround

Across All Customers, Categories & Invoices Processed

Before Invoice Due Date

Fully Allocated

Fully Audited

Sent to AP for Approval and/or Payment

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All Credits Allocated Back

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2023 AMI Dispute Activity

33,076 System-Generated Flags

20,176 Flags Investigated by Analysts

 

$2.9M Largest Dispute Recovered / $0.01 Smallest Dispute Recovered

 

42% Cases filed for under $100      31% Cases filed between $100-$1,000      21% Cases filed for between $1000-$10,000     6% Cases filed over $10,000

$101.7% Average AMI dispute recovery rate inclusive of taxes, fees and surcharges
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Invoice Lifecycle Automation

Fully audited and allocated invoices delivered weeks before their due date

Every Billing Error & Savings Opportunity Uncovered

Invoice auditing, contract/rate validation and dispute management services

Clean Inventory Data

Understand what you have, where it is and how much it costs – Everywhere

Fearless Change Management

Centralized procurement, changes and support delivered via ServiceNow

Single Source of Truth

View all dimensions of your vendor relationships in one pane of glass

Never Pay More Than You're Supposed to

Complete confidence, transparency & accountability for every dollar spent

AMI Dispute Manager

AMI Dispute Manager

EndofLifeServices

Device Refresh

Recovery Management

Certified Data Erasure

Recovery Management

Reuse & Redeployment

Cosmetic Grading

Diagnostic Testing

Reselling & Remarketing

Employee Buy Programs

Corporate Donations

CostManagement
Monthly Invoice Audit
Monthly Metric Review
Quarterly Optimization
Quarterly Review
Carrier Inventory
Multicarrier Options

Monthly Invoice Audit Against Contract
Monthly Change Validation
Monthly Review of Preventable Costs
Quarterly Zero Usage Plans/Device/Features Review
Quarterly Pool Optimization with Monthly Overage Monitoring

AssetManagement
End User Self Service
Approval Routing
Real Time Inventory
POS Allocations
Devices to Employees
Multicarrier Options

End User Requests & Approval Routing
Ties Devices to HRIS Employee Data & Organizational Groupings
Employee & Department/Group Inventories
Allocation Details Captured at Request Level
Spare Device Pool/Depot Management
Employee Onboarding & Offboarding
Monitors Hardware to Employee Status

MobileThreatDefense

All Threats

Malware
Phishing
Zero-Days
Ransomware

Data Leakage
Account Take-Over
Man-in-the-Middle
Bot Attacks

All Vectors

Malicious Emails
Malicious Websites
Rogue Networks/Apps

Theft or Loss
USB
Human Error

All Devices

Corporate Owned

BYOD

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Full-Service MDM/UEM Solutions

Free Consultation
Deployment
Licensing
Training
Configuration
AOP Helpdesk

Ongoing Administrative Support (Settings/Config Changes)
Locking/Unlocking/Wipe/Erase End User Devices
Application Administration, Deployment & Restriction by Group
Device to Application Issue Resolution
Easy Website Bookmarking, Whitelisting & Blacklisting
OS/Application Forced Updates or Deferrals
Location of Corporate Owned Devices
Security Policy Enforcement
Kiosk Mode (Locking a Device to a Set of Applications)

HelpDesk

Live Answer
Device Email Issues
Tier 1 & 2
Device Disposition
General Issues
Break/Fix

Multicarrier
12x5 to 24/7 Options
Tier 2 Support for Services Specifically Defined
General Issue Diagnosis & Resolution
Device Email Support
Device Disposition, Recycling, Buy Back
Carrier Liaison for Issues
Break/Fix Support
Term-Based & Project-Based Options

FulfillmentServices

Provisioning

Porting

Transfer of Liability

MDM/EMM Config

Profile/Policy Enablement

Application Loading

Restriction Policies

Settings Management

Accessory Pairing

Asset Receiving & Tracking

Staging & Imaging

Kitting

Reporting

Training Documentation

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Multicarrier Workflow & Inventory Management

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Manual Equivalent of AMI's Automation

Customer Case Study

Invoice Retrieval: 

27.08 Hours

PO Verification & Financial Allocation:  

93.75 Hours

Approving Invoices for Payment: 

97.08 Hours

Sub Total:<br 218 Hours (5.5 FTEs) + 5-60min per P2P Fallout Issue</br

Accurate Organizational Chargebacks

1,000.8 Hours

Complete Validation of All Cost Items: 

3,543.2 Hours

Additional Time: 4,544 Hours (113.5 FTEs) + 5-60min per Disputable Charge

Total Time to Replicate AMI's Automation?

119 FTEs

To Achieve Complete Cost Assurance & Accountability

5-60 Minutes Per Issue

Managing Unexpected Cost Items

Anomaly Research
Evidence Collection
Dispute Process

6 Anomalies = 30-120 Minutes of Manual Work

Requiring Verification in Multiple Systems and Managed by Phone or Email

5 Minutes Per Invoice

Manual Approvals & Payments

Emails
Phone Calls
Initiating Payment by Paper Check or ACH

12 Invoices = 1 Hour of Manual Work

Slow Approval & Payment Processes Result in Late Fees & Service Disruption Risk

5 Minutes Per Page

Financial GL Code Cost Allocation

12 Pages = 1 Hour of Manual Work

Reporting is Limited to Financial Structure, Not Business Structure

3 Minutes Per Line Item

Manually Checking Against the PO

10 Line Items = 1/2 Hour of Manual Work

Big, Deep & Complex Invoices

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Mobility & UEM

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Network & Telecom

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Utility Providers

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Public/Private Cloud

Hundreds to Thousands of Invoice Pages

Tens of Thousands of Cost Items

Mission Critical Services

Cross-Department Business Accountability

Impossibly Labor Intensive to Audit

Easy to Leave Money on the Table

5 Minutes Per Invoice

Manual Invoice Retrieval & Processing

Web Portal Download
Locating in Email
Scanning from Paper

12 Invoices = 1 Hour of Manual Work

Missed or Improperly Processed Invoices Create Service Disruption Risk
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Never Miss an Invoice

Predictive & proactive

Do More Than Humanly Possible

Exponential processing capability that forces accuracy

Keep Your Staff Engaged

Scale your talent by managing exceptions, not minutia

Fearless Change Management

Fully integrated with your inventory and validated for cost accuracy

Single Source of Truth

View all dimensions of your vendor relationships in one pane of glass

Never Pay More Than You're Supposed to

Complete confidence, transparency & accountability for every dollar spent

Big, Complex Invoices

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Mobility & UEM

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Network & Telecom

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Utility Providers

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Public/Private Cloud

Hundreds to Thousands of Invoice Pages

Tens of Thousands of Cost Items

Mission Critical Services

Cross-Department Business Accountability

Impossibly Labor Intensive to Audit

Easy to Leave Money on the Table

Service Provider APIs & RPAs

Available 24/7
Instantaneous Transactions
Forced Accuracy
Faster Turnaround & Delivery

Allocate

Copied from Previous Period
& Fallout Flagged
for Analyst Follow Up

Approve

Settings Available for
Threshold-Based
Auto Approval to ERP

Pay

vCard, ACH or Check
90-Day Currency Lock
Diversity Spend Attribution

Apps

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Scoped, Certified Apps for Plug & Play Implementation
on your ServiceNow Instance

Options

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Available for Customers Without an Existing ServiceNow Implementation

Know-How

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Solution Architects,
Design, Development, Deployment & Maintenance
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SmartAudit™

Invoice Audited
Contract Terms, Allocations, Usage, Trending, Inventory, Cost Items, Opportunities
& Custom Audit Rules

Validation

Flags Researched
Valid Rates are Linked to Page and Paragraph in Contractual Document in the
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Negotiation

Disputes Managed
Progress Tracked
in Real Time
and Credits are Validated
on Subsequent Invoices

Inventory Enrichment

One Pane of Glass For:

Business Owners

Spend & Usage

Policies

Cost Centers

Hardware Details

Periphery Services

Contracted Rates

Software & Apps

Maintenance Services

Master
Invoice Schedule

Never Misses Invoices & Identifies Duplicates

Automated Invoice Retrieval

RPA, API, EDI & BDF Technologies

Granular
Data Extraction

Lowest-level Cost & Usage Data

SmartCMDB™
Invoice Inventories

ETL: Inventories Invoice & Flags Changes
Rates, Fees, Quantities, Assets, Service Status, Entities, Addresses, Identifiers & Relationships

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AMI's
Utility & Sustainability
Test Drive

Through our Utility & Sustainability Test Drive, you decide what you would like us to do.

We load three months of gas, water, and power invoices from your largest facilities through our platform. Then, our analysts review the results and prepare a summary of their findings.
What We'll Need:
  • Three months of your PDF invoices from any carrier in your environment (domestic and/or global)
What to Expect:
  • Pre Analysis: A quick call to learn a few things about your current environment and coordinate securely sharing your invoice data with us.
  • Post Analysis: A call once the analysis is complete to review our findings.
Option 1: Sustainability Baselining:
Complimentary review providing you:
  • A tour of your data in the AMI platform, detailing granular site-by-site energy consumption and spend.
  • Quick identification of usage spikes based on trending data
  • Avoidable spend savings 
  • An overview on how you can create targets, measure results, identify outliers and prioritize improvements.
  • A demonstration of how easy it is to integrate Scope 2 consumption data directly from our system to any desired environmental reporting framework.
Option 2: Historical Utility Audit:
Contingency-based audit that analyzes:
  • Site-by-site energy consumption and spend
  • Historical billing and tariff errors
  • Benchmarking recommendations
  • Underutilized tax incentives
  • Other state, local, and federal programs you qualify for
  • Alternative utility provider options (deregulated markets)
  • Green energy alternatives
  • Anything else that jumps off the page
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AMI's
Complimentary
 Mobility Health Check

Through this analysis, we run your latest three mobility invoices through the AMI platform. Then, our analysts review the results and prepare a personalized summary of their findings.
What We'll Need:
  • Three months of your PDF invoices from any carrier in your environment (domestic and/or global)
What to Expect:
  • Pre Analysis: A quick call to learn a few things about your current environment and coordinate securely sharing your invoice data with us.
  • Post Analysis: A call once the analysis is complete to review our findings.
What We Typically Review:
Recommendations on:
  • Domestic data & voice pool optimization 
  • Standalone & bundled plan optimization
  • Zero/low/high usage devices, plans & features
  • Overages & usage charges
  • 3rd party charges
  • Situational savings (early termination fees, activation fees, late fees, etc.)
  • Anything else that jumps off the page
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AMI's Historical Telecom Audit

Through this contingency-based analysis, AMI can assist you in reducing your IT budget or unlocking new funds to pursue other projects through a complete MRI of your largest telecom service providers.
What We'll Need:
  • Three months of your PDF invoices from the largest carriers in your environment (domestic and/or global)
What to Expect:
  • Pre Analysis: A quick call to learn a few things about your current environment and coordinate securely sharing your invoice data with us.
  • Post Analysis: A call once the analysis is complete to review our findings.
What We Typically Review:
  • An extensive review consisting of thousands of automated audits that hunt for savings based on known billing errors, NNI/UNI/EVC correlations, filling in data from FCC databases/LERG/NECA/other industry databases, benchmark savings, service provider consolidation, and modernization savings.
How Far Back in TIme Can AMI Dispute Identified Billing Errors?
  • In most cases two years, but in some cases up to seven years.
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