NPI Spend Management Solutions - Guiding Your Spend to Higher Profits and Market Leadership
It's no secret that cost control can make or break your enterprise. So, why is it that companies continue to overspend in critical areas like supplier management, procurement and outsourcing? At NPI, we provide spend management solutions that deliver strategic cost reductions in your company's largest and most volatile spend categories: IT, telecommunications and transportation.
We believe that how you handle corporate purchasing in these areas can put you ahead - or behind - your competition. Guided by the experience of our spend management experts, we serve a single goal: To make sure you pay fair market value for the best structured deal possible.
NPI's pricing and contracting experts have visibility into thousands of IT, telecommunications and transportation deals. This insight, combined with our collaborative procurement analysis and price benchmarking of your vendor agreements, allows us to secure the most favorable terms and conditions for your needs, at a price that is in line with or below market average.
Our results are guaranteed. As an NPI client, you will save at least as much as you invest in our services - on average, the expense reductions we deliver to an individual client translates into savings of hundreds of thousands, often millions, of dollars each year. NPI delivers its powerful fair market value services in the following areas:
Transportation Spend Management: Small Parcel Shipping
- Contract Benchmarking & Negotiation
- Network Optimization
- Bill Auditing & Service Recovery
Transportation Spend Management: Ground Freight
- Contract Benchmarking & Negotiation
- Bill Auditing & Service Recovery
Transportation Spend Management: International Freight & Logistics
- Contract Benchmarking & Negotiation
- Network Optimization
IT Cost Management: Applications
- Application Portfolio Inventory & IT Price Benchmarking
- Software License Acquisition Analysis
- Maintenance & Support Cost Reviews
- Application Licensing Benchmarks
- Software Acquisition & Maintenance Program Reviews
- Application Development & Integration Professional Fee Reviews
- Application Licensing Model Analysis
- Application Hosting Benchmarks
- Outsourcing Analysis
IT Cost Management: Infrastructure
- Data Center Hosting Facility Benchmarks
- Managed Services Review & Analysis
- Network, Server & Storage Pricing Benchmarks
- Disaster Recovery Cost Analysis
- Cost/Benefit Reviews of Virtualization
- Security Cost Analysis
- Infrastructure Outsourcing Benchmarking
IT Cost Management: Outsourcing
- Business Case Development
- Vendor Evaluation & Selection
- Fair Market Valuation & Negotiation
- Contract Analysis & Evaluation
- Collaborative Goal Setting
- Governance & Gainsharing Support
- Measurement & Benchmarking
Telecommunications Expense Management
- Current Environment Inventory
- Billing Analysis & Audits
- Rate & Pooling Plan Optimization
- Total Sourcing - RFP development, bid management, reverse auctions, contract negotiation
- Cost Management Best Practices
- Policy & Procedure Development
Energy
- Utility Billing Audit & Analysis
- Utility Tariff & Rate Optimization
- Contract & Services Optimization
- Service Configuration Optimization