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Customer Case Study #1:

Salon Studio Franchise  

Customer Profile

  • 60+ Corporate Locations
  • 680 Franchise Locations
  • 25+ Carriers
  • 500+ Invoices
  • Rate Discrepancies
  • Utilization Variances
  • Locations of multiple shapes and sizes

Challenges

  • Inventory discrepancies, invoice overload, insufficient time to audit and verify all bills, payable processes and internal cost coding challenges
  • Obtaining new and upgraded vendor pricing and quotes was a tedious manual task
  • Inability to port lines for ~3 years, inability to get circuit disconnected for 7 years

Solution

  • Complete audit and rationalization of carrier spend
  • Consolidated invoices with automated audit of billing fees and taxes
  • Provided vendor quotes in web portal for easy comparison and ordering
  • Provided centralized helpdesk for service deployments and changes

Outcomes

  • Automated payables process improved cost allocations across the organization
  • Reduced cost associated with billing errors saving customer over $120k per month and one-time savings of $240k
  • Time to turn up new services and turn down old services with higher accuracy in reasonable number of weeks

Customer Case Study #2:

Private Equity – Health Care Organization

Customer Profile

  • 82 Locations
  • 24 Carriers (6 Preferred)
  • $1.6M Monthly Spend
  • Wireline & Wireless
  • 1000+ Invoices
  • MPLS, VoIP, SIP, Local Lines

Challenges

  • Inventory discrepancies, invoice overload, insufficient time to audit and verify all bills, payable processes and internal cost coding challenges
  • Obtaining new and upgraded vendor pricing and quotes was a tedious manual task
  • Inability to port lines for 3 years, inability to get circuit disconnected for 7 years

Solution

  • Complete audit and rationalization of carrier spend
  • Consolidated invoices with automated audit of billing fees and taxes
  • Provided vendor quotes in web portal for easy comparison and ordering
  • Provided centralized helpdesk for service deployments and changes

Outcomes

  • Automated payables process improved cost allocations across the organization
  • Reduced costs associated with billing errors saving customer over $240K per month
  • One-time savings of $170K
  • Time to turn up new services and turn down old services with higher accuracy in reasonable number of weeks

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Robotic Process Automation (RPA)

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PMVG Tech Connect Partnership

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