Telecom Inventory

5 Key Challenges of Telecom Inventory Management

5 Key Challenges of Telecom Inventory Management

There are many challenges when it comes to keeping track of data inventory, telephone lines, and network, wireless and mobility assets. With the right telecom inventory management system, you can track, budget, and utilize or decommission assets effortlessly. Understanding the key challenges in telecommunications inventory management can help you streamline your telecommunications equipment and services.

Valicom provides inventory management services for telephones, fiber optics, microwave communication equipment, Wi-Fi, telephone lines, and internet services. With the right tools, you can stick to your telecom budget and ensure accurate monthly billing for everything from mobile devices to telephone lines.

Global organizations rely on telecom inventory to connect different office locations, suppliers, customers, and remote employees seamlessly. It's important to have one central location to store telecom inventory, usage, and other relevant factors. Managing telecom inventory is paramount to the success of your organization, but it’s far from simple. Here are five key challenges to address when considering inventory management solutions.

The Importance of Telecom Management Systems

The Importance of Telecom Management Systems

A telecom inventory management system provides insight into the accuracy of your billing and provides transparency for your contracts with vendors. Investing in telecom inventory management brings the following advantages:

Benefits of Leasing Technology Equipment for Your Business

Benefits of Leasing Technology Equipment for Your Business

Being a business owner is not an easy role. The success of your organization relies on the decisions you make, especially when it directly affects your financial outlook. From the small investments, like whether or not to provide a coffee maker in the break room, to the larger commitments, such as whether or not to expand office space, the pressure is on you to cultivate a thriving operation.

Everything You Need to Know About Windows Virtual Desktop

Everything You Need to Know About Windows Virtual Desktop

Virtualization is one of the ultimate buzz words in enterprise technology. The IT experts speak of it with a light in their eyes and enthusiasm. Every sales pitch mentions it at some point, and in all fairness, virtualization is a large topic with many exciting applications.

The simple truth is that enterprise operations require at least some level of virtualization, and taking control of your virtual destiny is extremely important. It’s also a changing landscape. Microsoft has introduced the Windows Virtual Desktop, and it’s the biggest change to the game since the PC. Maybe.

Is Cable Management Hurting Your Bottom Line?

Is Cable Management Hurting Your Bottom Line?

There are always more numbers to crunch. In IT, particularly, you always have to weigh the costs of upgrades against expected returns. We always want new tech to pay for itself several times over, but that won’t happen unless upgrades are made with excellent direction. Usually, the biggest problem with new tech is that it is encumbered by old systems. All too often, upgrade plans overlook cabling infrastructure, and that gets expensive.

Negotiation Know-How: Optimizing Your IT Operational Costs

Negotiation Know-How: Optimizing Your IT Operational Costs

Your work involves negotiating software and cloud contracts. You’re aware that time limits can press operations managers to sign contracts as they receive them, and that this, in turn, can lead to unexpected costs…

*Based on the Gartner report, How to Optimize IT Costs.

5 Pro Tips for Streamlining TEM Software

5 Pro Tips for Streamlining TEM Software

The use of telecom expense management (TEM) has become increasingly popular over the past two decades. Organizations are seeing time and time again that managing telecom expenses is a key driver in being able to save thousands of dollars each year. Even a single employee who is abusing telecom practices can cost an organization a substantial amount of money. With TEM, it becomes possible to pinpoint employee abuse of mobile services as well as to identify telecom billing errors.

Essential Components of Enterprise Contract Management Software

Essential Components of Enterprise Contract Management Software

How does this sound for a perfect world? Your C-level executives can access contracts with all business partners instantly. Just as quickly, your executive can review the audit log to see who last worked on it. In preparation for a meeting with the legal department, the shared software assigns the files to the people who need to review it.

Tips for Choosing Connectivity Infrastructure

Tips for Choosing Connectivity Infrastructure

No matter what kind of business you run, networking now lies at the heart of your success. From processing payments to securing world-changing research, there is no component of modern work that works independently of computers. That is exactly why it’s so important to build the right networking infrastructure from the outset. Under committing can push you into expensive upgrades while over committing is an obvious waste of money.

How TEM Maximizes Retail Operations

How TEM Maximizes Retail Operations

If you are working in retail operations or information technology, you fully understand that your job is never quite complete. As the retail landscape continues to evolve to meet the on-demand needs of your customers, operations optimization continues to top your list of priorities. Managing and directing operations requires an immense amount of organization, and with a tool for almost everything, organization is becoming an automated process.

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IT Financial Management Event for Professional Development

IT Financial Management Event for Professional Development

With the annual IT Financial Management conference that happened last week, IT Managers were focusing on how to improve current processes along with orchestrating many other large IT projects. The conference highlights included...

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Best Practices for Employee Wireless Reimbursement

Best Practices for Employee Wireless Reimbursement

It’s quite the alphabet soup. This is where wireless device reimbursement and wireless policies can get tricky, complicated and time consuming. Do you have the resources to comb through each wireless device invoice for how many phone calls were personal, and how many were for work? How much data was consumed checking email, and how much was used to watch Netflix?

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How Can You Take Control of Your Device Inventory?

How Can You Take Control of Your Device Inventory?

Tablets, iPhones, iPads, Androids, Dells, and Macs. These are only a few devices you see daily, within the workplace. As businesses grow, the number of devices to keep track of grows too. If your inventory is not managed correctly, unnecessary money may be spent.

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Why Telecom Inventory Management Matters

Why Telecom Inventory Management Matters

Why? It’s a moving target monthly… your organization’s telecom line items are always in flux. New lines and circuits being added every month. iPhones and Android devices being connected and disconnected quarterly as new employees begin and others retire or leave. Or perhaps an organization’s locations are spread far and wide, making it difficult to keep accurate and up-to-date inventories feasible without incurring huge travel (or training) expenses.

BE MY VALENTINE: 10 Reasons to love TEM

BE MY VALENTINE: 10 Reasons to love TEM

Valentine’s day has me in an absolute tizzy this year. Something about the month of February for me is all about the frilly heart cards and candies, chocolates and flowers.

Here at Valicom, we’re embracing this special day by reflecting on all of the reason we love telecom expense management (TEM). Because frankly, after 25 years in business, you could say that we have developed quite a thing for reviewing telecom invoices and building inventories.