Managing Telecommunications Costs

Telecommunications costs make up a significant part of most large organisations' cost base. Yet understanding precisely what makes up the total cost of an organisation's network is notoriously difficult.

For example, most networks involve billing from a number of suppliers, and charges can reflect many factors such as distance, time of day and duration, and very few organisations have an accurate picture of the number of telephone lines for which they are charged.

Optus can change all that. We ensure that we have accurate records of all your services and each month match the bills from suppliers to a cost centre model built in consultation with you. This means that you can easily distribute costs back to your business units in a way that precisely matches your business needs. And you can free your staff from the task of tracking and manipulating data from a wide variety of sources.

Optus has also invested heavily to ensure that the systems we have developed are robust and flexible enough to cater for the most demanding of our customers.

We provide online access to reports that allow in-depth scrutiny by supplier, departmental cost centre, and so on. You also receive a set of simple management reports that show the key financial information you need.

Cost Centre Model: