Supplier Management

Telecom Category Vendor Management Best Practices   Telecom Category Supplier Management involves focused, strategic, planning by both sourcing and IT teams to perform effective supplier management. Providing strategic vendor sourcing services involves procurement and IT initiated RFPs, contract negotiations, contract renewals, supply chain consolidation, project support and is no small task for any team.  In […]

The Top 5 Telecom Contract Commercial Clauses As part of your Telecom and IT Category Management duties, Contract Management is a vital component to the overall effectiveness of not only your supplier relationships, but the product and services you purchase and implement.   Negotiating supplier contracts for category managers involves aspects like ensuring that all […]

3 Key Benefits of Maintaining Accurate IT and Telecom Inventory Whether you have a spreadsheet or a Technology Expense Management application, here are 3 key reasons to always ensure you maintain an accurate inventory. Here’s a free template on how to create a telecom inventory Download excel file Captures and stores information about who, what, […]

A process to guarantee your invoices are correct every month   The process of confirming if what appears on your invoice is correct and what you should actually pay a.k.a. (validating telecom invoices) can be a daunting task for business. Most businesses have an internal team or outsource this process manage anywhere from 50 – 2000+ […]

The future of Telecom Category Management solutions   For many years, telecom expense management software has focused on helping companies manage their inventory supplier billing.  Now these old, complex, clunky, outdated systems are giving way to a new generation of cloud-based solutions that are replacing an outdated arcanum “TEM” with Telecom Category Management SaaS applications […]

Before a Telecom benchmark – The list you wished you had before you started your last benchmarking process! Benchmarking is one of TEM’s most necessary evils. It can be a long and boring process, but without it you are almost definitely wasting money. Done incorrectly, you are also wasting time… It really pays to be […]

Depending on how organized you are, creating an annual Telecom Category Business Plan can be an easy feat – or the challenge of your life – to pull together.  The main purpose of creating an annual business plan is to reflect where you are today and pull together a plan for what you aim to […]

Does your contract have a benchmark clause – if not, what should go into a benchmark clause? If so have you covered these key areas? Generally speaking all contracts have several key clauses. When it comes to Telecom contracts, especially long term agreements (more than 2 years), or agreements… dare we say it, with chunky […]

Every major multinational corporation requires the very best from its TEM providers. A great communications network is essential for the world’s biggest companies, and there is a huge potential for savings and improved efficiency within these multi-billion dollar departments. But these enormous tenders don’t come up too often and when they do, every TEM provider […]

The time has come to wave goodbye to legacy technology By all accounts, technology has a pretty fast lifecycle. Just think about the mobile phone you owned ten years ago, or the VHS player that took pride of place in your living room just five years before that. When it comes to technology, it doesn’t […]

Blog two in a series of three – How can you prevent and minimise outages? We all know that outages are bad for business, so preventing and minimising outages should be a top priority for any business that relies on telecoms. Too many companies seem to accept the occasional outage as a fact of life, but […]

Blog three in a series of three – How to manage an outage So you’ve vetted your vendors, secured your system and kept diligent records of your inventory and performance history. And you still suffer an outage. Unfortunately, no system is completely foolproof and there are endless ways in which an outage can sneak up on you. […]