savings-areas

Is This Your Money?

Increase your mid-size company’s value quickly via DCI’s CORE (Corporate Overhead REduction) Analysis. Our team of unique SG&A experts consistently recovers attractive and sustainable savings that your internal staff has neither the training to detect nor the time to implement. Annual Savings can be hundreds of thousands, adding

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dci-clients

Could You Be More Profitable?

Profit is more than sales and what you bring in – it’s what you keep after expenses. DCI is a highly specialized cost reduction firm that secures your revenue gains with a unique approach to cost reduction that works every time it's tried... Are you facing any of these concerns? Profit margin compression? Fewer staff and

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fiber-optic

Bring Telecom Savings to Light

Your IT department is focused on mission critical issues – and taking the time to do a deep-dive audit of the myriad possible telecom overcharges is NOT mission critical for them or for any IT Director worth his salt.  But it is mission critical for us.  DCI’s devoted team of telecom analysts and auditors consistently find

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green-waste

Recycling Waste(d) Costs

Who Throws Money into the Trash? Hotels, Hospitals, Restaurants, Apartments, Retirement Communities, Manufacturers, Commercial sites, and well-run companies like yours. You trash your cash when you pay for specialized waste services you don’t need or for hauls that are not required, or for the wrong sized

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fuel-refi

Savings by the Gallon

Would you like to reduce your fuel related costs by 3 to 5 cents per gallon?  Regardless of your current fuel discount, you can you still lower fuel costs while ensuring supply security if your fuel team leverages the right automation and tools to buy further up the supply chain. Typically, fuel teams buy at one of five levels of

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office-building

Paying for the Landlord’s Mistakes?

Because a multi-page lease agreement allows for miscalculations and mistakes in future billing, your internal efforts in reviewing occupancy costs will certainly benefit from outside assistance. Once your leased space exceeds 100,000 ft. you should generally expect your recoveries from an external tenant lease review to be at

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freight

$$ Carried Away by Freight Costs?

Why is DCI able to find freight savings 80% of the time?  At the end of the day, your logistics department’s main priority is to ensure your product gets from one place to another as reliably as possible and at an affordable price. What you should not expect them to know or to have been trained in is the comparative analysis of

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tax-refund

Tax Refund: It’s in the mail. Really.

Your accountant is your best asset... but not your only asset.  These days, you need every possible tax advantage and credit you can get.  The tax credit specialists at DCI Solutions are respected and endorsed by many CPAs and Directors of Tax.  Here’s how we produce large tax reductions and refunds… Reduce Federal Tax

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printing

Meet the Press that Costs You $$$

For most CFOs, “print” is an almost-invisible expense, even though printed material in all forms can be 3% to 5% of non-payroll spend and over 20% of marketing costs.  The goal of any good print analysis is to make your marketing dollars go farther and give you greater understanding of the cost drivers affecting print projects

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ap

AP Audits: The Error-Free Era

Why should any company processing 50,000 invoices per year use AP audits? As our error tracking report shows, there are 28 ways payment errors can occur, the error rate in a sophisticated accounts payable department of any large company will be .03% to .08%. For every $100 million in non-payroll spend, $30,000 to $80,000 in payments

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The DCI Advantage

DCI’s comprehensive and expert review of 40 tax and overhead expense categories consistently identifies breakthrough savings. Save money without switching vendors, cutting corners, or laying off staff!

With us, you get:

  • Immediate cash flow
  • Proven track record
  • No distraction from daily tasks
  • Risk-free proposition
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Your Upside

To stay competitive, your overhead cannot be higher than the overhead of your competitors. DCI is your objective guarantee that your ancillary costs are in line.

  • Refunds for payment errors
  • Refunds due to contract non-compliance.
  • Future Savings through tariff analysis and rate selection.
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Success Stories

DCI identified...

  • >$100,000 Federal Excise tax refund for national title company. Client time = 30 minutes.
  • Extra 15% savings on freight costs for multi-state retailer. Client time = 60 minutes.
  • $200,000+ sales & use tax refund for Fortune 500 company. Client time = 60 minutes.
  • $75,000 vendor overcharge refund for multi-state company. Client time = 60 minutes.
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Our Clients

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Cost Reduction In 40 Categories Includes…

  • Energy
  • Telecom
  • Tax Credits
  • Waste Management
  • Fuel Management
  • CAM Audits
  • Freight: Ocean, LTL, Parcel
  • Tax Refunds
  • AP Audits
  • Benefits
  • Printing

Our Team

  • Gary Amico B.S., J.D.

    Gary is the Chief Tax Consulting Officer for DCI Solutions and brings Best Practice results in the area of Taxation to the Firm’s clients. Gary provides general methodology and process to Firm’s Total Tax Solution Practice as well as providing Tax Recovery and Consulting. His expertise in taxation is acquired from multiple years experience as a Senior Manager for a Big 4 Accounting Firm, where he oversaw projects for Fortune 1000 companies in state and local income tax, franchise tax, municipal business license tax, sales and use tax, hiring tax credits, and audit representation. Gary was one of the primary authors of the telecommunications tax reform movement and was instrumental in drafting Section 602 of the 1996 Federal Telecommunications Act. Gary earned his B.S. in Accounting from Loyola-Marymount University and his law Degree from Loyola Law School. He has completed the Institute of Property Taxation's Sales and Use Tax School and is active in the California Society of C.P.A. State and Local Tax Discussion Group.

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  • Jim Baker B.B.A.

    Jim serves as the Chief Cost Reduction Officer for DCI Solutions focusing on development of systems and processes to provide Benchmarking and Cost Recovery Solutions to the Firm’s client base. Jim also interacts with DCI consultants and clients to ensure DCI’s methodologies are effectively implemented to meet the individual needs of DCI’s multifaceted client base. Prior to DCI Solutions, Jim served in several executive, operational, and financial positions for two publicly traded retail chains. As the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for one of them, he was instrumental in growing it from 35 stores in 1991 to 300 stores in 1999. He successfully completed a public offering of the Company’s stock which was a consistent top performer on the NASDAQ from 1998 to 1999. Jim attended Southern Illinois University and holds a BBA with a Specialization in Accounting.

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