In these challenging economic times, Cost Certainty is a significant goal for all managers as they review expenses to protect their P&L. Managing cellular billing activity and usage is very difficult. Manual efforts are time consuming and are hit and miss! A focused approach, supported by best practices, will assist in attaining your goal of Cost Certainty. CanAsyst is your partner and CellAsyst is your solution!
With one click:
- Discover subscribers with the highest invoice of the month
- See billing exceptions for:
- Usage Over or Under Plan Limits
- Long DIstance Usage
- Roaming Usage
- Summarize fleet growth by month (with associated costs)
- Email copy of bill to each subscriber
- Post expenses to GL Account
- Export reports to Excel format for further analysis
Wireless mobile devices are being deployed at an ever increasing rate. However, Policies of Use and business controls are not being implement at a simlar rate to manage growth, educate users and contain costs.
CellAsyst provides our clients with enhanced Governance (Transparency, Oversight, Accountability) of their wireless invoice. CanAsyst delivers the tools and education so you can efficiently manage cost more efficiently than ever before. Third Party TEM consultants charge up to 50% of found savings. CanAsyst "teaches you to fish" with self-management! Our clients have reduced their process from days to hours. And spend less on the CellAsyst license than 50% of savings. CellAsyst offers a visual & intuitive interface to easily review, analyse and report any segement of your wireless invoice.
With CellAsyst , a number of unique features allows advanced analytics including detail call reporting and data (ie text message, ring tones, etc) usage analysis. Some of our reports are:
- KPI (Key Performance Indicators)
- Rolling 12-month billing comparison
- Average Cost & Usage by Subscriber
- Account Pooling Usage by subscribe
- Emailing of month bills to subscribers
- Corporate Hierarchy of cost and usage
- Post/Integrate GL Expense to Financial system
- and so much more...
- Determining users who "misuse" airtime plans. Followup meetings then can help refocus understanding of "acceptable use"
- Adjusting plans, where appropriate, of users whose cost and/or usage minutes exceed or fall under their current package
- Reviewing the KPI (Key Performance Indicator) report. This ensures that categories of cost fall within certain tolerances and compare current monthly usage against that of prior rolling 12 months of history. When category tolerances are at risk, decisions are made (based on further analysis) and corrective action taken
- Reviewing asset inventory of cellular devices. This allows you to manage devices coming up for contract renewal, providing a stronger position when negotiating contracts
- Providing an interface to the Accounts Payable posting process where monthly AP expense can be automatically generated and formatted to post directly to a financial system
- Comparing budgeted costs to actual expense within the GL. This simple exercise allows all posting to be done at the department level and unit managers can manage to their P&L level of responsibility
- Reviewing the Hierarchy (Organizational Chart) report. This allows Unit Managers the ability to manage employee usage
- Producing Data Usage reports to see who is using what service and to what degree of value. In certain cases, it is cheaper to incur the cost of a feature (such as Unlimited Text Messaging) than to pay for the cost of a certain activity (such as Single Text Messages). Additionally, one could look at the impact of usage, determine exceptions and manage results
- Emailing replicas of each user's monthly bill. This can have an immediate effect on consumption. Generally employees are surprised at the costs and thus curtail usage
Without a doubt, we are creatures of habit. We do not like limits. When we are given boundaries, we push them, and when it comes
to cellular communications, user costs and usage seem to always increase. Controls, then, provide play an important role in curtailing excess usage and keeping budgets in tact.
With the appropriate analysis and management of your users, you can finally take reign of all of your organizations's cellular spending and activity. Our clients have either created or updated their Corporate Usage Policies based on CellAsyst analysis, and for good reason. While we cannot determine ourselves what controls you require initially, these will become evident once results are reviewed via our software.
Yes, CellAsyst provides you with the technology to effect change in your organization, and to do so without high capital investment or specialized custom software. Our open approach allows us to keep this solution in step with TELUS, providing the accountability you require and the simplicity of operation you deserve.
