FinesseCost Direct Operating Cost Management

Direct operating costs represent 50-60% of an airline’s total cost structure. Today, it’s challenging for an airline to verify and validate each DOC invoice against operational data and complex vendor contracts; most airlines adopt sampling methods to verify vendor invoices. Plus, airlines overpay their vendors between 0.5%–2.5% depending on the DOC category. As a result, airlines are spending billions of dollars in vendor overpayment.

FinesseCost streamlines payables, automatically processing e-invoices and estimating accurate DOCs against operational data sets and vendor contracts. This eliminates gross overbilling and helps you save money on everything from fuel to cargo handling.

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Never overpay your vendors again

With FinesseCost, managing vendor contracts is streamlined through a powerful contract management engine. In order to prevent overpayment, contract information and operational data are measured against incoming invoices. This helps check for the discrepancies that lead to overbilling, even with complex vendor contracts dealing with taxes, discounts, group deals, and the like.

Forecast your expenses for greater efficiency

Before you receive an invoice from vendors, you’ll know what’s coming your way. We calculate all flight-related costs, based on operational data and vendor contracts. These are posted as accruals in the books of accounts to ensure timely and accurate financial closing. FinesseCost will help you understand your monthly closures well in advance, and plan accordingly.

Improve your vendor and flight-level operating cost analyses

Compare vendors over time and across stations. This allows you to negotiate discounts and better vendor rates because you see the entire scope of what’s happening. FinesseCost also provides near real-time reporting of operating costs at flight level so you can analyze profitability, plan your budgets and forecast individual flights with greater accuracy. This in turn provides valuable insights for cost control and rationalization.

Enhance operations with standardized workflows

Streamline your workflow process across all aspects of your airline. We help you automatically capture and standardize your invoices, whether they’re scanned documents or emails. Then we validate all the data against expected bills, thus ensuring everything's running smoothly. It saves you tons of time and minimizes errors. You can even capture all your operations at the source using a simple iPad app.

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Airline Cost & Billing Management

Save on your airline’s direct operating costs with FinesseCost

Never overpay your vendors again

Forecast your expenses for greater efficiency

Improve your vendor and flight-level operating cost analyses

Enhance operations with standardized workflows

What Our Customers Are Saying

What Our Customers Are Saying

FinesseCost: Efficiently Manage Airlines' Direct Operating Costs

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