Systems and Methods for Telecommunication Expense Management

A system for electronically processing telecommunications invoices from one or more vendors, comprising:

• a user database configured to store vendor mapping rules, telecommunications invoices and data extracted from telecommunications invoices;
• a mapping interface coupled to the user database configured to apply vendor mapping rules to telecommunication invoices, wherein applying a set of vendor mapping rules to vendor specific nomenclature for elements to transform the vendor specific nomenclature to categories that are comparable;
• an invoice analyzer module configured to perform a reasonability test on the imported telecommunications invoices, wherein performing the reasonability test includes evaluating the telecommunication invoices on an element basis to determine whether an element billing exception exists, wherein a reasonability test comprises an automated comparison against established criteria;
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• an interactive display that presents information related to element billing exceptions, wherein upon a request from a user the interactive display provides additional information related to an element billing exception.

A computer program product comprising a computer usable medium having control logic stored therein for causing a computer to process telecommunications invoices received from one or more vendors, said control logic comprising:

• computer readable program code means for causing the computer to extract elements from imported wireless communication invoices;
• computer readable program code means for performing a reasonability test on the imported wireless telecommunications invoices, wherein performing the reasonability test includes evaluating wireless telecommunication invoices on an element basis to determine whether an element billing exception exists, wherein a reasonability test comprises an automated comparison against established criteria;
• computer readable program code means for causing the computer to receive instructions for treatment of the element billing exceptions;
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• computer readable program code means for causing the computer to transmit approved invoice information.