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SmartCMDB™

Industrial-grade automation that retrieves invoices with Robotic Process Automation (RPA), API, EDI, or BDF as soon as they are available from your vendors and processes down to the lowest level of detail within minutes.

With AMI, inventory is everything and all invoice attributes are cataloged.

Using our proprietary SmartCMDB™ and SmartAudit™ technologies, we not only process invoices to their lowest-level line items, but we also identify any rates, charges, or assets that are new or missing, automatically flag for review by our analysts to validate or dispute.

If the updated inventory items are valid, they’re linked back to your Vendor Contract Profile (including the original contract page number) for on-demand visibility.

If they’re invalid, AMI manages that interaction with your vendor until it’s resolved.

Automated Financial Operations

Once processed and inventoried, all invoices are allocated against cost center and GL coding at the lowest granular level and integrated back into your ERP for approval.

With an average allocation delivery time within 24 hours of invoice receipt, AMI delivers fully coded invoices back to our customers for approval and payment weeks before the invoice due date, allowing them to unlock early payment discounts and incentives.

Fully-Integrated Inventories

Invoiced usage and spending are enriched with asset, organizational and contractual details giving you a 360-degree view of what you have, where it is, who is responsible for it, and how much it costs.

Whether or not you use AMI for MACD with your vendors (and we recommend you do), with SmartCMDB™ we know when your inventory changes by just processing your invoice.

However, using AMI for change management (MACD) enhances this functionality, by tracking changes and flagging them for review on upcoming invoices to validate that they’re applied and invoiced correctly.

SmartAudit™

AMI’s SmartAudit™ system will measure your telecom invoices against their corresponding contracts to ensure you never pay more than you’re supposed to. Our proprietary SmartAudit™ technology takes a 360-degree approach to dissecting and reviewing your invoices, including:

ServiceNow Apps

Add value to your existing ServiceNow implementation with plug-and-play ServiceNow apps designed to give your IT assets spend and usage dimension and manage all change activity that happens across your portfolio.

As a ServiceNow Technology Partner, our scoped, certified applications get you up and running in days, not weeks or months.

Historical Audits

In addition to our standard SmartAudit™ services, AMI conducts a full invoice-deconstruction audit, including consideration of carrier-to-carrier infrastructure/handoff and taxation to identify institutional billing errors that, while invisible to the naked eye, can have dramatic cost-saving consequences. For any error we identify, AMI initiates and manages the dispute process to resolution, oftentimes recovering savings from errors going back multiple years.

Timely Payments with Global Coverage

Through our Vendor Hyperautomation setup, invoices are collected, processed, and coded in a fraction of the time, allowing you to make payments faster, capture early payment discounts, and quickly identify anomalies eligible for short-pay. Coupled with our 90-day foreign currency locks that protect our customers from unexpected currency fluctuation, we provide an efficient, predicable process that allows you to focus on the important stuff.

Telecommunications Benchmarking, Sourcing & Procurement

Leverage AMI’s domain expertise, pricing intelligence, and contract negotiation experience to secure the very best rates from your providers.

From scoping to collecting quotes to negotiation to contracting, AMI’s expert team supports you every step of the way. Once contracted, our Day 2 services project-manage the implementation and validate the accuracy of the corresponding invoices once the services have been implemented.

Meticulous Provisioning

You’ve placed an order with your service provider, now what? AMI watches that order like a hawk, providing visibility into order status updates, watching key milestones, and cross-checking future invoices for accuracy.