Wireless Expense Management Saves Over 30% On Cell Phone Bills
eMOBUS offers wireless mobility management to medium-sized companies looking to reduce the cost of cell phone services. eMOBUS is perfect for all sorts of industries but they have a nice list of satisfied clients in the construction industry. Brian Miliate is the CFO for Baker Electric needed to get a handle on wireless expense so he chose to work with eMOBUS for mobility management. Baker Electric has been in business since 1938 and is a full-service, fourth generation, family-owned and operated company. Baker Electric is a successful contractor working on large contracts throughout sothern California. Their client base includes Commercial, Industrial-High Tech, Manufacturing, Power Generation, Renewable Energy/Photovoltaic Solar and Residential in both the public and private sectors. With headquarters in San Diego, Baker works across southern California so their employees depend on cellular service to communicate with colleagues and clients.
With a wide variety of service contracts and the cellular arena in constant flux, Miliate\’s team found it extremely difficult to keep track of who was paying how much to which wireless service provider, for how many minutes per month. That inability was costing Baker Electric. This is a common scenario for a corporate account that deploys over 100 cell phone lines. When, as part of an internal restructuring, the company inventoried every cellular phone number, it discovered a significant number of defunct cellular accounts for which the company was still paying.
Concluding that Baker Electric lacked the resources to manage wireless expenses on its own, Miliate went looking for a wireless expense management provider that could monitor wireless service contracts to make sure they are current and competitive, and negotiate the best market terms and conditions. He chose eMOBUS, a proven mobility management provider in the construction industry.
According to Miliate, eMOBUS performed all of the heavy lifting, producing cost savings that, for the most part, we would have struggled with or spent too much time to create ourselves. Collectively, they dropped our AT&T, Sprint and Verizon costs by 32%. Before eMOBUS we had three sales reps, three carrier systems, and three different types of billing invoices. Now we have one system, one knowledgeable support center, and consistent reporting. The complete solution allows Baker Electric to spend minimal time on cellular so they can focus on planning and strategy rather than bill reconciliation and account maintenance.
The management of cell phone plans, rates, inventory, contracts and moves/adds/changes is a real nightmare for most medium-sized businesses. With limited resources, it is unlikely that accounts payable and IT staff are able to keep up to date with all the changes that occur with wireless assets. What this adds up to is a major management headache for administrators. The problem cannot be ignored, however. Security, budgetary and productivity concerns are pressuring companies to keep better track of employee wireless accounts and utilization.
By taking a preventative approach, eMOBUS delivers a powerful new way to manage mobility. After establishing the optimal cost configurations for purchasing a corporate pooling plan environment, Electronic Mobility Management is deployed to keep those configurations in place. By centralizing every transaction, from ESN swap to plan change, ordering a new device to canceling a line, upgrading a line to suspending service, each move/add/change transaction is referenced against business intelligence rules before it is executed into the carriers system. So once eMOBUS deploys your provisioning plan, your costs will always be optimized, your inventory will be accurate and your company will continue to save money month after month.
Paul Mendiola is a telecom consultant for Spiritel Solutions. Our mission is to reduce your telecom and wireless costs. Mobility Management saves your company 30% or more! For a free consultation, please visit us at Spiritel Solutions.
