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Negotiate Value-Added Contracts

RAS helps a client identify the best contract for its organizational requirements to create more productive, cost-effective, and sustainable partnerships with its suppliers.  Working together, RAS and its client consider factors that determine the optimal contracting arrangement for each supplier relationship:  dependency on the supplier, strategic value of the product or service, cost, and impact on the client due to supplier nonperformance.

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Discover Unknown Assets

Finding money for an organization that it didn’t know it was owed is like discovering lost treasure. Previously unknown financial assets can now be available to use.  That’s what RAS does…it finds money that its clients didn’t know was lost.  Money mistakenly overpaid on invoices and sales/use taxes, money owed in the form of credits and rebates, money paid for inaccurately billed charges, and even money sitting in states’ unclaimed property accounts.

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Increase Operational Efficiency

All organizations can benefit from being more efficient.  The primary objective of increasing operating efficiency is to reduce costs and maximize resources. Efficient operations are cost-effective, reducing waste while maintaining quality and service and yet recognizing the need for flexibility to account for and respond to unexpected demands.  They are more productive and can free up time, staff, and money to use elsewhere.  They allow organizations to deliver more timely solutions to their internal and external customers.

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