Wireless expenses are notoriously difficult to track and are becoming increasingly complex due to decentralized workplaces, workforce turnover, fragmented systems, and limited visibility across lifecycle phases which span people, devices, carriers, and finances.
The solution to these challenges lies in an integrated Mobile IT Financial Management platform. MobilSentry™ brings together carrier asset, status and billing information, HR information on employees, organizations and cost centers along with order transaction information. Our platform addresses both sides of the mobility equation: Expense & Billing Management and Asset Lifecycle Administration, each comprised of four core solution components.
This solution streamlines and optimizes all activities related to managing carrier invoices, ensuring accurate cost allocation, and enabling timely payments.
Invoice Validation ensures accuracy by identifying a variety of invoice discrepancies including contract rate errors, missed credits and failed terminations or suspensions.
Invoice Optimization generates invoice savings by assisting in carrier negotiations, including staying on top of the latest carrier promotions. It also includes plan & feature optimization where appropriate and elimination of unused lines.
Cost Allocation improves financial accuracy by maintaining accurate user-to-device mapping with each months billing cycle. Detailed cost tracking by user and device ensures timely and more precise chargeback reporting.
Streamlined AP Processing delivers customized reporting format to ensure accurate, on-time payments with support for secure AP data transmissions.
This solution delivers control, cost efficiency, and continuity across the entire device lifecycle—from procurement to disposition—while enforcing policy and standardization.
TCO & Policy Management >assists in developing a device procurement strategy with an emphasis on total cost of ownership (TCO). It also helps define refresh and replacement operational plans will assisting in enforcing corporate mobile usage policies.
Automated Provisioning streamlines and brings repeatable consistency in order process by enabling distributed ordering access down to the employee level with role-based catalogs to control device purchasing by employee function. It also includes built-in approval workflows.
Asset Management ensures operational excellence in lifecycle management starting with procurement execution by maintaining control over configuration and deployment of all mobile devices.
Asset Disposition maximizes value by maintaining accurate inventory control and overseeing device reuse and redeployment. At the end of the device lifecycle it ensures optimized resale and recovery value.
Business Impact
An effective Mobile IT Financial Management platform delivers control, visibility, automation, and financial integration, enabling organizations to: