How do you maintain quality of service and reduce costs at the same time:

Waste in purchased services is common today.  As staff has been cut the ability to make sure that bills are accurate is rapidly disappearing.  The only solution to making sure billing by vendors and suppliers is accurate is to outsource certain aspects of accounts payable.  Outside vendors are able to  compare payables to make sure that contract rates are being properly charged, duplicate payments are eliminated and budgets are maintained.

When an outside vendor is paid based on amount saved the win-win relationship begins to develop.  The outside expert must be able to present systems that can maintain long term methods that will continue to maintain savings when the initial project is completed.

Telecommunication Rates and Service Issues:

If rates continue to fall how will the carriers maintain quality of service?  The answer is they cannot.  Outsourced telecommunication services are becoming essential for the survival of the minimum continuation of voice and data services.  If a company relies on its inside staff that do not have time to properly follow-up on service calls and communication issues, entire telecommunication systems at companies will eventually fail.  We have had companies with serious services issues that have taken months to get corrected with almost near disaster consequences.  The reason this occurred is that the internal corporate staff did not have the time nor the knowledge to make sure the carrier completed its tasks.

As the voice and data networks become more complex the amount of knowledge needed to even call the appropriate vendor has increased dramatically.  Calling the wrong vendor and not being able to properly diagnose the problem leads to delays and longer outages of voice and data services.

Outsourcing to professionals that work with many companies enables the outsourced vendor to obtain knowledge and skills that yield efficiencies.  Carrier contract negotiations with knowledge of inventory and appropriate costs yields dramatic savings.

It is highly likely that the cost to outsource will be recovered through efficient monitoring of the monthly invoices, reduction in rates for products and services and just by contacting the proper service provider and reducing down time.

Reduce your cost of gas and electric:

As the winter approaches cost for energy, gas, electric, gasoline and other fuels will increase.  The world is now consuming 80 Million Barrels of Oil per day and will continue to increase its daily consumption.  We must conserve, retrofit and constantly analyze our bills to make sure we are not overpaying. 

We now offer these cost containment services and will reduce your cost dramatically.

New Services:

ATI has saved its clients over One-Hundred Million Dollars annually.  ATI has found that not only is Telecommunication savings important but our clients want to save money is other areas.  ATI now audits, All Telecommunication Services, Waste Disposal, Utilities, Insurance, Travel, Facility Management Services, Credit Card Services and all Outsourced Services including Equipment and Property Leases and Maintenance Agreements.

Property and Equipment Leases:

Reading of leases is one of the most difficult and tedious tasks asked of mankind.  ATI has professional readers that study all aspects of your leases.  Warning:  Always try to get the Evergreen Clauses removed.  If you do not know what an Evergreen Clause is when you encounter it you will be shocked.  It is a clause that automatically allows the Lessor to renew your payments for a specified time.  This can be very costly since many leases provide that you can end them for $1.00 or for 10% or for some agreed to amount.  However, if you do not give proper notice the lease renews automatically for a specified period of time which costs the uninformed a tremendous amount of money.

ATI:

Please visit our updated Web site  ( www.auditbills.com ) ...new services are available to serve you better including Cost Containment Services, Procurement Services, Management Services and software to track, manage and automatically audit all of your telecommunication expenses.

OUR PROMISE TO YOU: "ATI will be able to work with your existing vendors and develop  saving suggestions that will substantially reduce your procurement costs and your service provider costs.   We do not work for vendors.  We have developed services and systems so you will have the most cost effective Procurement Services possible.  We  inventory your equipment and  services and make recommendations that best support your Cost Containment goals.

We hope you will look forward to the Communicator and would appreciate any feedback that you would like to provide. 

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