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How MServ Optimizes Your Organization's Governance

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As an MServ customer, you have an expert team available who help you elevate and offload the day-to-day administrative tasks of managing TRACK. This frees your teams to focus on implementing best practices, drive cost savings, and operational excellence.  

The value you get from MServ is how it transforms your organization’s approach to governance so you’re not just meeting expectations, but also setting new benchmarks in efficiency and strategic management as you ascend the maturity curve. 

Let’s take a closer look at how MServ optimizes your governance process: 

Governance  

Creating a scalable and dependable operation requires establishing a strong structure, maintaining consistency, and thoroughly documenting processes. Governance plays a crucial role in overseeing the entire process.  

By setting up master data consistently within the TRACK Platform and following MCi best practices, the MServ team provides valuable data in Insights to highlight potential process gaps. This ensures your business processes are perfected, helping you move along the TRACK Maturity Curve. Additionally, defining more scalable processes that identify process gaps will contribute to overall operational efficiency. 

Key Benefits of Governance: 

  • Profiles / User Accounts   

  • Pay Formulas   

  • Application Settings  

  • Global Naming Conventions  

  • Track Releases   

  • System Refresh  

  • End User Communication 

Transactional Excellence 

Achieving transactional excellence involves meticulous attention to detail. It begins with ensuring strict adherence to TRACK Daily Processes, the backbone of operational efficiency. Our dedicated MServ resources work diligently on the ground, ensuring seamless process execution. They keep the metaphorical ‘machine’ running smoothly, promptly addressing any issues and rejecting overrides when necessary. Now, you can quickly identify inefficiencies and drive continuous improvement to streamline your business operations. 

Key Benefits of Transactional Excellence: 

  • Override Management  

  • Exception Management  

  • Daily Process Monitoring  

  • Unallocated Hours Review  

  • Unauthorized Hours Review  

  • End User Support 

Supplier Partnering 

The heart of Supplier Partnering lies in strengthening supplier relationships. Our approach is to foster trust by demonstrating how we help suppliers be successful in their roles. We encourage open communication, inviting vendors to seek clarification on any uncertainties. By nurturing this rapport, we create an environment where daily processes become smoother for them. Ultimately, we aim to empower suppliers, making them more at ease with utilizing our system and effectively reconciling financial transactions. 

Key Benefits of Supplier Partnering: 

  • Daily Process Support  

  • Routine Touchpoints  

  • New Supplier Onboarding  

  • Training / Refresher Training  

  • Process Optimization 

Actionable Insights 

Actionable insights are derived from real-time data, which drives informed decision-making and reveals additional value opportunities. The MServ team monitors your daily processes. On weekly calls, they share and discuss any issues they’ve identified. Stakeholders can understand the potential problems and quickly decide how to move forward. Additionally, we utilize our Insights dashboards to promptly address any lagging aspects. This collaborative approach ensures that the team can swiftly tackle any emerging issues. 

Key Benefits of Actionable Insights: 

  • Daily Process Monitoring  

  • Dashboards / Analytics  

  • Value Opportunity Review  

  • Data Utilization & Training 

Contracting Strategy 

Our contracting strategy revolves around a comprehensive review of contract terms and conditions and how they play out over time.  As part of our daily process, the team identifies areas within contracts that could be improved. This ranges from identifying areas where the TRACK daily process could be streamlined, if the terms and conditions changed, to potential leakage gaps. These insights are brought to your attention before contract renegotiations. Our collaborative approach ensures stakeholders understand the rationale behind these strategic adjustments, ultimately strengthening the overall process to provide the most value. 

Key Benefits of Contracting Strategy: 

  • Contract Type Discipline  

  • Supplier Performance Reviews  

  • Contract Analysis / Compliance  

  • Contract Renegotiation  

  • Ad Hoc Initiatives 



Value Optimization 

Value optimization is at the core of our efforts to propel the TRACK journey forward. We begin by conducting thorough assessments, asking over 100 targeted questions to gauge an organization’s current position. Based on these insights, we recommend strategies to elevate them to where they should be. Our focus extends beyond mere utilization; we identify areas where best practices are not being fully leveraged. By setting priorities and establishing a timeline, we guide organizations along the TRACK maturity curve, ensuring sustained progress and unlocking untapped value. 

Key Benefits of Value Optimization 

  • Operational Reviews  

  • Maturity Curve Assessment  

  • SME Consulting  

  • Benchmarking  

  • Business Process Improvement 


As you can see, MServ offers a pathway to elevate your operational maturity throughout your MServ partnership.  

We help you optimize your governance across five pivotal domains: transactional integrity, strategic supplier collaboration, actionable intelligence, and refined contracting strategies, ensuring a holistic enhancement of your operational framework.

If you have questions on how your MServ team is handling each aspect of the governance process for your organization, please contact your Service Delivery Manager.