1. Expense Reduction Analysts Success Stories
Belzona Polymerics
get smart on costs
When Belzona Polymerics engaged
Expense Reduction Analysts to review Table of Savings
their telecom costs, it was in the
Category Saving(%)
knowledge that the company already
kept a tight rein on spending in this Fixed Line Telecoms 55%
area. It was also felt that an external Mobile Telecoms 15%
consultancy would be able to make
more objective recommendations
and enable Belzona employees to usage. Landline calls also included a
concentrate on their own already high proportion of international calls to
heavy workloads. Belzona’s distributor network. Although
these costs were capped, they were higher
Neill Summerfield of Expense Reduction
than the best available market rates.
Analysts started his review by analysing
all calls and texts sent to every destination Next we turned our attention to mobile
during a 12 month period to establish telecom costs. Belzona’s 54 strong team
whether the profile of usage was a good team of global technical consultants are
fit with the current tariff package. required to make calls within the UK,
internationally, from country to country
“We quickly discovered that most landline
and back to the UK.
David Reeves, Accounts Payable Supervisor, calls were of shorter duration than the
Neill Summerfield, ERA Consultant, Dr. Bill current set up charge and minimum At first glance, the tariff looked extremely
Ashcroft, Managing Director, John Bradley, call charge and we were able to deliver competitive for the complexity of
Group Financial Controller, David MacKarill immediate savings by matching the best international roaming needed. However
IT Manager. available tariff to the current profile of more detailed investigations revealed
that smaller increments in the charging
basis for international roaming calls could
“Belzona were delighted with the be achieved, resulting in significant and
sustainable cost reductions.”
telecom savings Expense Reduction Belzona were delighted with the telecom
savings Expense Reduction Analysts had
Analysts had been able to effect and been able to effect and initiated a smarter
cost management strategy to their
distribution network.
initiated a smarter cost management Belzona Polymerics Ltd is a privately
strategy to their distribution network.” owned company, based in Harrogate
in North Yorkshire, manufacturing
protective coatings and repair composites
to reduce maintenance downtime in the
power generation, petrochemical, water
and oil & gas industries. Belzona operates
worldwide through a network of 238
distributors and has 5 global centres
of excellence to support and sustain
its impressive recent growth.
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