

Mobile Expense Management Service
January 3, 2015


If yours is like most companies, it has more devices than ever out on the street. Moreover, those devices run the gamut from classic cell phones to smart phones to tablets to air cards. The number of units is often in the thousands, and keeping track of them is becoming a serious headache.
MindWireless’ Mobile Expense Management service addresses those challenges with a seven-layer service that covers all the bases. Beginning with a focus on how your program is structured, the service provides the necessary framework to gain control of your inventory, handle your invoice processing and chargeback, validate your vendor charges, optimize your rate plans, reduce services, and report all details to managers and users.
MindWireless’ Mobile Expense Management service brings order to the chaos of managing a mobile environment. Elements of the service which most drive improvements include:
MindWireless Mobile Expense Management is more than a software, it’s a full-on, technology-enabled service led by experienced team members with a passion to serve our clients. The service operates from a core foundation of seven integrated elements that work together for maximum benefit.
During the implementation stage, our team works with yours to ensure that all the policy bases are covered, putting in place the rules for how your program will operate. Of great importance are your cost policies, which frequently determine how you handle payment liability, qualifying vendors, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), and other program components.
Until the inventory of lines, devices, users and other key information is assembled into a cohesive database, you cannot effectively manage your wireless environment. The first step is to build “order from chaos” through a structured program of enrollment and data collection that yields an accurate picture of your complete wireless portfolio.
All invoices are directed to Ecova where key attributes include unrivaled electronic data capture, multi-method cost allocation, cost estimation/forecast, consolidated vendor payments and more.
We believe strongly that our clients should pay what they owe, not what they’re billed. With the rich data set of invoices, inventories, and contracts assembled into our analytical systems, we can now perform the critical validation routines to ensure vendor billing accuracy.
Using a three-month history of usage as the initial data set for analysis, analytical routines will be run to determine optimal pool size, whether any individual users are best served outside of the pool, and other criteria that will reduce the usage costs for both voice and data services.
Using the inventory of lines, devices, and users in combination with usage data supplied by vendors, a wide range of optimizations are generated to eliminate unneeded zero usage devices, phones not belonging to current employees, features that are not desired under the policy and other costly elements of your wireless program.
Three separate user types will have specialized views of your wireless environment. Individual users will be able to view their own charges and usage, along with any procurement activity. Managers and supervisors will be able to view similar content for all of their reports that are in the wireless program. Administrators will have access to all wireless management data. Access can be via single sign-on with your systems.
Implementation and service launch will typically be completed in 30-60 days from contract signing. An initial kickoff meeting will be set with you immediately following contract signing to explain processes and introduce teams. Subsequent meetings will occur on a regular basis as appropriate for the timeline and services to be provided, typically at weekly intervals.
As part of deploying the service, we ask that you provide the following information:
MindWireless’ Ecova’s Mobile Expense Management is not just invoice processing, but a broad-based, multi-faceted offering which accomplishes many important tasks to improve your mobile network management capability. From helping to define the correct policy for your company, to building a complete and accurate inventory, to properly allocating costs, to reporting and visibility, the benefits are expansive.
In addition, with IT departments taking the lead in merging their management efforts for Wireline and Wireless communications, there has never been a better time to get these activities under the same overall management program.