{"id":696,"date":"2019-06-24T08:17:47","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T08:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woss.agency\/temforce\/?p=696"},"modified":"2025-12-04T08:59:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:59:27","slug":"top-10-telecom-expense-management-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/temforce.com\/new\/top-10-telecom-expense-management-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Telecom Expense Management Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Top 10 TEM Guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. Establish a TEM process workflow. Manage your MACD demand (Moves, Add \\ Orders, Changes and Disconnects) and RFPs in an agreed defined approval and request process is a mandatory.<\/p>\n<p>2. Create ground rules with your suppliers\u00a0 e.g. &#8220;Dear supplier, If you didn&#8217;t receive a request, order, disconnect, change, or RFP from this specific team or application, it wont be considered valid nor paid!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3. Do not overpay for a telecom service, benchmark your spend every year!<\/p>\n<p>4. You should not need to be a certified SQL \\ Oracle Database Administrator to use a TEM solution.<\/p>\n<p>5. Always know your telecom \\ TEM next moves.\u00a0 Understand your KPIs, SLAs, contract pipeline and dashboard metrics tat enable you to effectively manage your team and telecom portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>6. Understand IT network service and vendor performance &#8211; a.k.a supplier relationship management 101.<\/p>\n<p>7. Actively benchmark and control your costs.<\/p>\n<p>8. Be on the same page with your team and carriers &#8211; stop chasing teams and carriers for updates and information.\u00a0\u00a0<strong>Get your team and carriers on the same application!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>9. Validate all invoices.\u00a0 Never trust the invoice is correct, validate the invoice against your active living inventory (not that spreadsheet from the 1900&#8217;s that use to be maintained by Beth before she left 5 years ago!)<\/p>\n<p>10. Build a network of industry peers, knowledge share on technologies, savings, strategies and best practices that have proven to work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Temforce &#8211; Category Management SaaS enabling teams to manage their Telecom, IT Categories and Suppliers through 1 easy to use application.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top 10 TEM Guidelines &nbsp; 1. Establish a TEM process workflow. Manage your MACD demand (Moves, Add \\ Orders, Changes and Disconnects) and RFPs in an agreed defined approval and request process is a mandatory. 2. Create ground rules with your suppliers\u00a0 e.g. &#8220;Dear supplier, If you didn&#8217;t receive a request, order, disconnect, change, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,41,39,42,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macd-processing","category-network-management","category-reporting-analytics","category-supply-chain","category-telecom-expense-management"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/temforce.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/temforce.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/temforce.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temforce.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temforce.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/temforce.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2327,"href":"https:\/\/temforce.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions\/2327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temforce.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/temforce.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temforce.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/temforce.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}