Benefits of GXS Telecommunications Invoicing Service include:

• Increased Visibility and Control – Customers experience savings up to 15% with an established process for validating and auditing telecom invoices. Easily identify billing errors and get empowered with information to easily identify employee abuse, under-utilized plans, and over-priced services.
• Money Savings – Electronic invoices can be directly integrated into back office systems enabling faster validation, processing, and payment. Therefore, companies can take advantage of early payment incentives and negotiate better contracts with accurate usage information.
• Higher Productivity – Elimination of manual auditing and validation processes frees up significant amount of resource time. Re-deploy resources and budget for new value added services.

Today’s global economy demands that enterprises operate as efficiently as possible. As a result, industry leaders are continually evaluating ways to reduce unnecessary direct and indirect costs from their supply chains.  Many companies are now focusing on getting control over their telecom spending in order to better manage indirect procurement costs. These high dollar volume and, often, poorly controlled expenses can represent a significant percentage of an organization’s IT budget – as much as 10 percent for large organizations and as much as 30 percent for more distributed organizations.

GXS addresses the telecommunications spends of today enterprise with GXS Electronic Telecommunications Invoicing Service. Enabled through GXS Trading Grid^SM, our service transforms paper trail into electronic data to more effectively obtain carrier billing refunds and support in contract negotiations while streamlining internal processes and gaining control.

• Electronic Invoices –The GXS service includes electronic versions of telecommunications invoices with call records detail to help identify inaccuracies and inconsistencies.
• Electronic Payments - Electronic copies of remittance advices with detailed accounting information can be provided to your service providers. Additionally, leveraging GXS’s relationships with all of the Fortune 100 banking institutions, we can facilitate electronic payments between you and your telecommunications providers.
• Back Office Integration – Insert electronic invoices directly into your back office systems. GXS has the capability to integrate with General Ledger and Accounts Payable systems, as well as, B2B Integration Brokers and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) hubs. GXS offers straight-through processing with no required manual intervention.
• Multiple Billing Formats – GXS can accept invoices in a variety of formats from your service provider including EDI, XML, Microsoft Excel, or even proprietary telecom billing formats. The invoices can then be converted into the format appropriate for your back office systems – EDI, XML, SAP iDOC or other proprietary formats. The GXS Trading Grid services have a robust data transformation capability that enables GXS to convert bills from any input format to any format you prefer.
• Carrier Support – GXS offers consultative services for small and medium sized providers that may not be familiar with electronic invoicing. GXS can provide education, consultation, testing and support to your community of service providers. GXS Community LinkSM has been used by thousands of companies to enable their electronic commerce programs. GXS Community Link is available in 20 local languages in over 30 countries around the world.
• Change Management – GXS offers change management services for you and your service providers to ensure continued ROI from your expense monitoring efforts. The rapid pace of change in the telecommunications industry demands an on-going maintenance effort to ensure the timely and accurate receipt of billing data. GXS has a programmatic approach to ensuring that industry or company specific events do not impact your electronic invoicing feeds.