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Premier Connects: Overcoming Spreadsheet Syndrome with AMI
A condition affecting organizations where over-reliance on spreadsheets for critical data management and reporting leads to inefficiencies, errors, and limited scalability. Often seen in business processes that lack robust, centralized data solutions, Spreadsheet Syndrome can result in inconsistent information, time-consuming manual tasks, and challenges in maintaining data accuracy and integrity.
AMI Strategies
Overcoming Spreadsheet Syndrome
AMI Strategies Experience in the IT & Telecom Administration Space.
Syntax level set: Let’s make sure we are all speaking the same language.
Best practices for creating clean inventories and automating inventory updates.
Best practices on how to use ServiceNow to ensure your inventory stays up to date.
How to use carrier billing errors to your advantage at the negotiating table.
How Invoice Lifecycle Automation streamlines chargeback and showback processes.
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Our Background
Fully audited and allocated invoices delivered weeks before their due date
Invoice auditing, contract/rate validation and dispute management services
Understand what you have, where it is and how much it costs – Everywhere
Centralized procurement, changes and support delivered through ServiceNow
View all dimensions of your vendor relationships in one pane of glass
Complete confidence, transparency & accountability for every dollar spent
Premier Connects Webinar: Overcoming Spreadsheet Syndrome
Syntax Level-Set
Premier Connects Webinar: Overcoming Spreadsheet Syndrome
Invoice-Level Administration
Premier Connects Webinar: Overcoming Spreadsheet Syndrome
Adding ServiceNow to Close the Loop
Premier Connects Webinar: Overcoming Spreadsheet Syndrome
Identifying & Resolving Billing Errors
New services and change orders may not be billed correctly due to miscommunication between sales and billing departments within the carrier organization.
Upgrading from one service to another within a carrier can cause timing and rate billing errors with the existing carrier.
Complex legacy systems often make it difficult to implement corrections swiftly.
Carriers may be hesitant to have significant credits visible in their financial statements.
We are a Telecom, Technology and Utility Expense Management Firm dedicated to managing the entire lifecycle of service provider invoices, inventories and costs for enterprise clients.
Our fee model is based on a monthly recurring structure, and while we prioritize uncovering and resolving billing issues for our clients, they retain 100% of any recovered costs.
An AMI analyst discovered a 10% discrepancy in the discount rate applied by a carrier, resulting in $1,000 in overcharges. It took over three years and $40,000 in credits to resolve the issue.
After negotiating a PRI renewal, AMI discovered that the carrier had not implemented the contract in their billing system. AMI worked for 18 months to secure over $4 million in credits.
Premier Connects Webinar: Overcoming Spreadsheet Syndrome
Transform Historical Mishaps into a Powerful Negotiation Tool
Premier Connects Webinar: Overcoming Spreadsheet Syndrome
Easy Showbacks & Chargebacks
AMI copies forward allocations from the previous invoice for cost items that have not changed.
AMI offers percentage and amount based allocations. Single charges can also be allocated across multiple cost centers.
An entire invoice is allocated at the master account level to one or more cost centers. Typically percentage based.
An entire invoice is allocated at the charge level to one or more cost centers.
An entire invoice is allocated at varying levels of sub-accounts, cost groups and charges to various cost centers.
Premier Connects Webinar: Overcoming Spreadsheet Syndrome
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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
Fully audited and allocated invoices delivered weeks before their due date
Invoice auditing, contract/rate validation and dispute management services
Understand what you have, where it is and how much it costs – Everywhere
Centralized procurement, changes and support delivered via ServiceNow
View all dimensions of your vendor relationships in one pane of glass
Complete confidence, transparency & accountability for every dollar spent
Invoice Retrieval:
27.08 Hours
PO Verification & Financial Allocation:
93.75 Hours
Approving Invoices for Payment:
97.08 Hours
Accurate Organizational Chargebacks
1,000.8 Hours
Complete Validation of All Cost Items:
3,543.2 Hours
Predictive & proactive
Exponential processing capability that forces accuracy
Scale your talent by managing exceptions, not minutia
Fully integrated with your inventory and validated for cost accuracy
View all dimensions of your vendor relationships in one pane of glass
Complete confidence, transparency & accountability for every dollar spent
