Comments on: Global Telecom Expense Management – Keep it Simple Stupid!

By: Bimbi Ahluwalia

Bimbi Ahluwalia — Fri, 27 May 2011 04:48:17 +0000

Just recently, I was found out that works best with their interest.

By: Brennon

Brennon — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:16:33 +0000

Completely agree, global TEM is a complex animal that many companies are not ready for. Mostly for the fact that you mentioned, they operate under their own supervision. I ran the Telecom for a large US corporation that had international entities, and there was no interest in a central global telecom department. Even knowing that such a integration would save thousands of dollars through leveraged purchasing and a integrated network. Global TEM will be a challenge, but I imagine it will catch on when the savings and controls are understood.

Brennon Cardone
President Tidal Telecom

By: Jerry Catt

Jerry Catt — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:58:00 +0000

“First of all,I am against outsourcing jobs to third world countries,and paying them slave labor.I have no problem,nor have I ever had any problems with immigrants doing whatever it takes for them to survive,and I would never blame them.It is the agricultural,and manufacturing corporations that hire these wonderful hard working people for slave wages that need to be punished for their illegal warehousing,and abuse.I believe that the government needs to punish these criminals to the fullest extent of the law.I also believe that the foreign trade is definitely immoral,and should be illegal.It is disgusting to me that these poor people are being blamed for taking an opportunity to live a better life.Great question,and I wish that there were people in our government that would bring this to public debate,and not just say"they work jobs regular americans don’t want"could you run for public office”

By: Jesus Ruiz Janeiro

Jesus Ruiz Janeiro — Mon, 10 May 2010 15:55:50 +0000

I completely agree, hence most of our service cost while providing cost allocation to our clients is driven by such complexity. We face not only disaggregated sources of information (ERP systems, Access or Excel files in different formats) and daily changing corporations.

This made us re-think completely our software, which is just a tool to be able to provide this service, six years ago and improve it considerably to be able to:
- Read directly from ERP dd.bb. so employees, cost center, projects dedications, category changes, are read directly from such centralized sources.
- Have enough experience doing the job in the shade; “Coordinating” our client’s different departments and responsible (Purchase managers, facility dept., CFO, internal auditing, etc.)
- Be able to adapt to multi-level and across organigrams, which allows for cost allocation on a daily basis.
- Develop ad-hoc reading tools for some clients with over 10.000 lines.
- Suggest the best-praxis when pre-designing how the TEM service could be best optimized; ie. what does our client needs to do before contracting us, if he wants to pay just for TEM or organization consultancy.

But the hard part is: making THEM understand that such internal problems, and not subcontracting this mess to an expert, is what is really making them loose or expend unnecessary cash and internal resources.

Regards

Jesus Ruiz Janeiro
CEO Telcomunity.com