Freight audit and payment (FAP) services consist of invoice collection, preaudit, processing, payment and analytics of transportation invoices across multiple modes and regions. These services have expanded over the years to include transportation procurement services, benchmarking, advanced analytics and supply chain consulting expertise to provide customers with key insights from their freight spend data. The transportation industry faces continued volatility, causing organizations to look for insights and better control over logistics spend. As a result, demand for freight audit and payment services continues to rise due to lack of internal competency.
Gartner defines the managed mobility services (MMS) market as a set of bundled vendor-provided IT services, outsourced business process services, software as a service and managed services commonly aimed at enterprises’ IT and procurement teams. These life cycle services typically include procuring, provisioning, activating, kitting, shipping, managing, securing, supporting and decommissioning mobile devices. A mobile estate here comprises smartphones, tablets and/or ruggedized devices. MMS services can be applied to both corporate-liable and individual-liable (or “bring your own device” [BYOD]) devices. MMS helps ensure operational and commercial effectiveness for an organization and its mobile device users. This includes securing information created/accessed/modified by mobile devices; maximizing device (and consequently user) availability, visibility and control of the mobile estate; inventory and usage optimization; lowering total cost; and improving ROI and the employee experience (EX).
Telecom expense management (TEM) services enable enterprises’ IT, procurement and finance departments to order, provision, support and manage the costs of corporate telecommunications services, associated IT services and their inventories. (These may include fixed and mobile telephony and data services, cloud services, unified communications as a service [UCaaS] licenses, and Internet of Things [IoT] connectivity.) TEM services also include business intelligence (BI) and reporting suitable for supporting C-level strategic decision making. Gartner’s TEM research coverage focuses on SaaS-based applications and platforms, managed services, and associated professional services.