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Orchestrating 10x Bandwidth

CANNON GROUP HELPS LEADING PROPANE COMPANY ACHIEVE 10X BANDWIDTH INCREASE AND 10% REDUCTION IN COMMUNICATIONS SPENDING

PROBLEM

America’s largest propane company grows its business in large part through the acquisition of other high-quality propane companies across the country. With each acquisition, however, they inherit new communication technologies. As such, they needed a repeatable process that could identify the various technologies in place, pare it all down per the needs of internal customers and integrate into their current network. In an environment of high activity and constant change, their internal IT resources did not have the bandwidth to manage this complex undertaking on an ongoing basis. And the longer they waited after each acquisition to get a handle on the IT landscape, the more money they were wasting on technology that was not needed.

SOLUTION

Cannon Group employed a tightly managed process to understand which technology was contractually in place, what services were deployed at which locations and which of those were still needed—along with all associated expenses. Cannon then partnered with the client to convert and integrate the remaining technology into the existing network.

RESULTS

Cannon Group redesigned how the customer manages changing systems, processes and technology across the entire business for greater savings and productivity. To date, the client has seen a 10X bandwidth increase with a 10% drop in communications spending.

Complex RFP for SD-WAN

CANNON GROUP DELIVERS 46% ANNUAL SAVINGS FOR LEADING MANUFACTURING COMPANY THROUGH GLOBAL VENDOR CONSOLIDATION

PROBLEM

One of the world’s largest paper companies wanted to upgrade their network and move to an SD-WAN solution across five different international regions. They needed the right mix of vendors who could support them globally, offer the appropriate service levels needed for the global network, implement in a timely manner and ultimately deliver savings.

SOLUTION

Cannon Group was chosen to manage this complex RFP process for their global network. Because five international regions were involved, Cannon’s approach included a review of each region separately, followed by a holistic assessment across the entire enterprise and recommendations for a consolidated set of vendors. They negotiated price and service levels—a cumbersome back-and-forth process that required superior negotiation expertise. With each round of negotiations for the multiple vendors across the global network, the Cannon team also performed highly complex financial modeling of baseline vs. proposed spend, then delivered those insights to the customer in an easy-to-digest format to support an informed decision.

RESULTS

By consolidating vendors from four to two, Cannon helped the customer achieve $5M (46%) in annual savings. Additionally, the client was able to deploy the newer network technology along with higher bandwidth to meet emerging business needs. Improved performance levels should be achieved along with opportunities to leverage the available bandwidth.

Contingent Workforce Spend

GLOBAL AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURER REDUCES INVOICE PROCESSING TIME
FROM WEEKS TO DAYS ON THEIR $20M/YEAR CONTINGENT WORKFORCE SPEND

PROBLEM

A global automobile manufacturer was burdened with managing a $20M/year contingent workforce spend. Hundreds of invoices were coming in for IT consultants from across the globe, all at different rates, and the customer was using up three fulltime resources to manage the process—all before invoices even reached the approver. In short, they were wasting money on a highly inefficient process.

SOLUTION

With Cannon Group’s Liberty service, the customer got a fully managed automated expense management program that integrates with existing applications, such as Oracle BI, ServiceNow and an internally developed application. Cannon helped the client analyze their costly process, then reengineered to a fully managed program with trained experts and software. Automation was introduced to replace not only a cumbersome data collection process, but also manual tasks such as rate and hours compliance checks, approval management and AP file creation tasks. Additionally, Cannon’s trained experts handled vendor disputes and resolution tasks.

RESULTS

With a transparent and efficient end-to-end process, the client’s invoice processing time dropped from weeks to 1.5 days. Plus, without having to cross-reference data from various system to ensure billing accuracy, those previously bogged-down resources can now focus on more strategic initiatives.

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