Cost Avoidance

Successful access cost management follows in the footsteps of successful revenue assurance.

Proactive access management entails detection of process breakdowns that are the sources of needless access costs. Much like proactive revenue assurance, it is not a one-time effort.

Access cost avoidance relies heavily on both an accurate inventory of services generated during a reactive revenue assurance project and a well maintained circuit inventory linked to these services, possibly built during reactive access cost reduction effort. In our experience, the continued maintenance of a table matching all individual circuits purchased to corresponding customer orders is the most difficult challenge in proactive cost avoidance. It requires implementation of tools and processes that can continually ensure integrity throughout the access management process.

Successful proactive access cost reduction initiatives will ensure the integrity of the access management process against superfluous costs and unneeded circuits. Like successful proactive revenue assurance, the success will depend on established controls being collected and monitored by a dedicated and empowered access management organization. Allolio&Konrad can help develop, implement and optimize the access cost management processes and tools that are right for an organization.