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  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Simplify Expense Reporting Through Intelligence, Automation, and Integration

    A SAP Concur blog post notes that cloud technology brings intelligence and automation to small and midsize companies, and T&E automation saves time, cuts costs, and supports expansion. According to AMI Partners, 76% of firms that automated T&E tools use cloud solutions, and finance teams see an average 15% time savings. The article highlights integration, mobility, and intelligence as key adoption drivers, and notes six in ten employees have filed at least one incorrect expense report.

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    IDC: T&E Software User Experience and Wasted Time

    IDC Senior Research Analyst Kevin Permenter writes in a SAP Concur blog post that financial services firms are always looking to reduce costs and gain efficiencies, and that T&E software end users increasingly look to the software itself as a place to save time. Users want a more intuitive and conversational experience. The post lists elements of a stronger user experience: a simpler/cleaner interface, mobility, multidevice support, conversational UI, strong customer support, and automation/intelligence. It argues that streamlining the user experience reduces wasted time for travel departments and increases employee engagement with the application.

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    How CFOs Can Manage Out of Control Employee Spend

    An SAP Concur blog post notes that employee-initiated spend has shifted from company control to employee control, causing havoc on managed travel and expense programs. It cites a Phocuswright study showing only 36% of surveyed travelers use their approved corporate booking tool to book hotels, airfare, and rental cars, resulting in significant 'invisible spend.' SAP Concur processed 238 million such transactions worth nearly $109 billion last year. The article advises CFOs to improve spend visibility to save costs, enhance compliance, mitigate fraud, and improve supplier negotiation positions.

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    Electrolux Increases VAT Recovery with Concur Expense and Taxback International

    SAP Concur published a customer case study on how Electrolux increased VAT recovery using Concur Expense and Taxback International. Electrolux uses Concur Expense in 42 countries with roughly 9,000 business travelers. Through Taxback International analysis, Electrolux found it was only reclaiming about 8% of VAT paid, around €30,000. After activating the app, first-year VAT recovery tripled to nearly €100,000, and current annual recovery is approaching €400,000.

  5. SAP Concur Blog

    Here's How to Simplify Expense, Travel, and Invoice Management

    A study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of SAP Concur found that 60% of companies face issues with manual processes and timeliness due to their current tools. Outdated legacy technology is a core cause of inefficient expense, travel, and invoice management. Additionally, there is a lack of alignment between IT and finance: 61% of firms say IT focuses more on usability and employee experience, while 64% say finance focuses more on reducing spending. A unified automation strategy improves satisfaction: 75% of companies with a unified strategy reported high satisfaction with travel and expense tools, compared to just 35% without.

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    College and University Back Offices Face Toughest AP Test Yet

    A SAP Concur blog post cites a Wakefield Research survey of 350 higher education finance and administration staff, highlighting remote-work software gaps, budget tightening, and compliance pressure at colleges and universities during the pandemic. Only 16% of staff can continue working remotely without hurting department productivity; 60% are prepared to reduce pay or cut staff to offset budget shortfalls; and 71% are concerned about complying with regulations due to sustained remote work. 99% of decision-makers agreed certain investments must be made, and 84% want funding for technology that integrates systems, devices, and spend data.

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    AI and Machine Learning in Travel and Expense Management

    A SAP Concur blog post introduces the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) in travel, expense, and invoice management. It mentions that AI and ML can standardize policies, eliminate paper receipts, project travel budgets, and improve employee satisfaction. SAP Concur products like ExpenseIt use OCR and ML to extract receipt information, Concur Detect uses AI to audit expenses, and Concur Locate uses ML to locate employees for Duty of Care.

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    How SMBs Build Resilience Through Spend Visibility and Control

    The article says small and midsize companies are hit harder in uncertain times because they hold less cash, and controlling discretionary spending is a key driver of cash flow. An AMI-Partners survey found 66% of businesses want to better track and analyze expense trends to cut costs, 63% want integrated spend management for better cash flow visibility, and 72% want improved operational efficiency and productivity. Concur Invoice users report saving an average of US$42,000 annually and 148 hours per accounting team per week.

  9. SAP Concur Blog

    Go Back to School with IT Modernization Thanks to the American Rescue Plan Act Funding for K-12 Sch…

    A SAP Concur blog post notes that K-12 school districts can use American Rescue Plan Act funding for IT modernization. Congress passed three COVID-19 relief bills, and the Department of Education established the ESSER Fund for eligible expenses like curriculum, IT, and building maintenance. ESSER I, II, and III funds must be spent by September 30, 2022, 2023, and 2024, respectively. The article recommends improving travel, expense, and invoice management processes for transparent fiscal management.

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    SAP Concur: 3 Ways Channel Partners Deliver Long-Term Value in a Cloud-First World

    A SAP Concur blog post outlines how channel partners can deliver long-term value to SMB customers in a cloud-first world. Concur launched its Solution Provider co-sell program in July of last year, and more than 300 partners have joined. The post offers three recommendations: build a portfolio of cloud services, invest in continuous training to improve knowledge retention, and help customers maximize their cloud technology investments. The central argument is that partners must shift from transactional models to a continuous-value approach spanning pre-sales, sales, and post-sales to build multi-year revenue streams and customer loyalty.

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    SAP Concur Implementation: People Before System

    A SAP Concur blog post shared insights from a webinar featuring three U.S. small business finance professionals discussing their experiences implementing SAP Concur. The main takeaway was that implementation should prioritize people and team dynamics over the system itself. One panelist emphasized evaluating team strengths and adjusting roles before implementation. Another noted that Concur Invoice helped save on office space costs, improved employee satisfaction, and sped up supplier payments. A third advised treating SAP Concur as an investment rather than an expense and leveraging its customizability to streamline processes. SAP Concur research shows that after implementing expense and t…

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    SAP Concur Launches Online Business Agility Assessment for Spend Control

    SAP Concur has released an online Business Agility Assessment tool to help companies evaluate their spend management capabilities. The assessment examines expense management processes, vendor invoice management, tool usability, system integration, spend control levels, and technology provider landscape. It notes that digitalization and integration are prerequisites for effective company spend management, and that gaps in spend visibility can open up unnecessary risks and costs. Upon completion, users gain access to a spend management toolkit with best-practice initiatives, continuity plan templates, and partner app information.

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    Your Expense Reports Could Be Writing Themselves. Here's How

    SAP Concur article discusses AI and machine learning in expense management, partnering with The New York Times to explain automated expense reports. It notes AI can reduce manual entry errors by up to 66%, improving accuracy and compliance. For example, Cardinal Health saved up to 10,000 hours per month by automating expense reports. The article emphasizes complementary roles for humans and machines, with AI creating new efficiencies rather than unemployment.

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    Moving away from the invoice black hole

    The article notes that manual invoice processing often involves paper handling, convoluted workflows and unreliable storage, creating an 'invoice black hole.' Invoice automation captures invoice data, routes it to approvers via custom rules and workflows, and schedules payments, reducing manual touches, avoiding late fees, and flagging discrepancies before payment through two- and three-way matching. Cloud-based solutions require no expensive software installation and can scale with the company.

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    Justifying the Cost of an Automated Expense Solution

    This SAP Concur blog post guides businesses on justifying the investment in an automated expense management system. It poses questions about labor costs, data integrity, report generation time, visibility, opportunity costs, mobility, policy violation detection, cash flow, integration, and time savings. By evaluating these areas, companies can build a business case showing how automation improves efficiency, reduces errors, and yields long-term savings.

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    SAP Concur: Automated Expense Management Key to Finance Efficiency

    A SAP Concur blog post cites a commissioned Forrester Consulting study finding that nearly two-thirds of surveyed SMB financial leaders picked managing expenses/cash flow as their top financial challenge. The study shows SMBs' key expense and travel challenges focus on user-induced errors and long time requirements. Smaller businesses (1-499 employees) called out time requirements for paperwork and approvals as their top challenge, while larger businesses (500-999 employees) gave a small edge to inaccuracies caused by human error. Surveyed businesses considered improved process efficiency the most important benefit of automated expense and travel solutions. More than three-quarters of SMBs…

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    SAP Concur: The Business Value of Concur Invoice and 505% ROI

    A SAP Concur blog post cites an IDC white paper finding that eight interviewed businesses improved their AP processes with Concur Invoice: staff time on invoice processing fell 68%, employee compliance rose to nearly 100%, late payments to vendors dropped 67%, line-of-business productivity rose 11%, and IT staff time managing AP solutions fell 29%. The white paper also projects annual benefits of $775,401 per organization ($15,418 per 1,000 invoices) and a 505% ROI over five years.

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    SAP Concur: It's Time to Let Go of Your Expense Tracking Spreadsheets

    A SAP Concur blog post discusses the limitations of using spreadsheets for expense tracking in small businesses. It states spreadsheets lack version control, leading to inconsistent and inaccurate data; make it hard to quickly draw conclusions; are prone to small errors in data entry or formulas that balloon into larger ones; can't provide historical views to spot trends; make data aggregation a nightmare; and lack flexibility and scalability. It recommends considering a purpose-built expense management system and offers best practices for finding suitable software.

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    SAP Concur: It's Time to Get Your Invoice Process Out of the '80s

    A SAP Concur blog post lists five reasons businesses should move past outdated invoice systems: better visibility, reduced costs, less paperwork, increased productivity, and user mobility. It states many CFOs and financial decision makers don't feel they have big-picture visibility into invoicing and office expenses; manual paper-based processes drive up labor costs, with businesses unknowingly throwing away thousands to millions of dollars each year on manual AP steps that could be automated; physical documents are subject to loss, fire, flood, and theft; and mobile and cloud solutions allow invoice processing and approvals via tablets and smartphones, reducing late payments.

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    SAP Concur: A Decades-Long Journey Centered on Customer Success

    A SAP Concur blog post reviews its customer-success journey: founded in 1993, it focused early on on-premise expense-reporting automation, embraced the cloud and expanded offerings in its second decade, developed mobile solutions as devices proliferated, and in its third decade offered global solutions meeting local requirements while opening data via APIs and forging industry partnerships. It says Concur has 7,000 employees and embeds customer success across culture, innovation, data, and organization.

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    SAP Concur: Don't Get Blown Away by Manual Expense Processes

    A SAP Concur blog post states that manual, paper-based expense report processes can take hours, with employees spending large portions of their days digging through receipts and manually inputting expenditures, while finance departments review and reconcile reports. It cites SMB Group data: 30% of SMBs support telecommuting for 20% or more of employees, 18% expect the percentage of telecommuting workers to increase next year, 57% say 20% or more of their workforce travels for work, and 14% expect this number to increase next year. It recommends SMBs choose a scalable mobile expense system like Concur Expense, where employees simply photograph receipts.

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    SAP Concur: How Concur Invoice Works

    A SAP Concur blog post details Concur Invoice features: automating the entire invoice management process from capture to pay, integrating with Concur Travel and Expense. Invoices can be submitted via email, fax, hard copy, or electronically. AI-powered OCR extracts data, validated and corrected by an auditor or invoice verifier. The system automatically matches invoices to POs and goods receipts, flags exceptions, and uses dynamic approval workflows. Concur Invoice Analytics provides real-time visibility into invoice status and spend. It cites Prison Fellowship, which saved minutes per invoice after using Concur Invoice.

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    6 Expense Management Considerations for Small Business Owners

    The article offers six considerations for small business owners moving from spreadsheets to an expense management solution: policy compliance, reporting and visibility, cloud-based deployment, integration, migration support, and ease of use. The solution should automate policy checks, offer preconfigured report dashboards, update via subscription, integrate with existing applications, provide an implementation team for data migration, and support OCR receipt capture.

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    SAP Concur Solutions Overview: Travel, Expense, and Invoice

    A SAP Concur blog post briefly introduces its solutions: Concur Travel, Concur Expense, and Concur Invoice work seamlessly with each other and integrate with existing ERP, HR, accounting, and other business systems to create a single connected process for managing company spend, helping save time and money, negotiate better rates with suppliers, and create happier travelers. It also provides links to an end-to-end solution demo and self-guided demos.

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    SAP Concur: How to Prevent Fraud and Enforce Global Policy Compliance

    A SAP Concur blog post discusses expense fraud and compliance challenges for global businesses. It cites an Oversight Systems study finding that 37% of business travelers had at least one exception on their T&E reports, and estimates the typical organization loses 5% of annual revenues to fraud each year. It recommends distinguishing real fraud from unintentional mistakes, using corporate card programs, receipt requirements, and communication plans to reduce errors and focus on actual fraud. It also suggests zero-tolerance policies, third-party audits, and random checks.

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    SAP Concur: 5 Ways It Pays to Pay Vendors on Time

    A SAP Concur blog post states that processing a paper invoice costs $23 on average, while automation reduces the cost to $3.41 and cuts processing time by up to 75%. It lists five benefits of paying vendors on time: capturing maximum early-payment discounts and avoiding late-payment penalties and interest; building a positive reputation; receiving VIP service and pricing from vendors; preserving good credit; and gaining vendor flexibility during cash flow crunches. It also notes Concur Invoice gives suppliers a portal to view payment status and remittance information.

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    SAP Concur: Building AP Nirvana with Millennials

    A SAP Concur blog post cites surveys finding that 93% of Millennials say up-to-date technology is one of the most important factors at work; a PwC study found 59% of Millennials value an employer's willingness to provide state-of-the-art technology when considering a job, and 78% say access to technology they like makes them more effective. It argues traditional AP systems with manual input and paper shuffling conflict with tech-savvy Millennials, and says Millennials will comprise 40% of the working population by 2020.

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    SAP Concur and IDC: Five Stages of T&E Management Maturity

    An IDC study commissioned by SAP Concur identifies five stages of travel and expense management (TEM) maturity: paper-based reporting, automated processes, purpose-built mobile/cloud apps, platform ecosystem, and intelligent/predictive processes. IDC says less-mature TEM processes become a mounting source of lost productivity and revenue and increased employee dissatisfaction as companies expand. Greater maturity brings returns in productivity, support time, travel costs, and risk.

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    SAP Concur Explains What T&E Means and Its Business Impact

    A SAP Concur blog explains that T&E stands for travel and expense, a major operational cost. It says T&E expense management is considered the second-most difficult operating cost to control, 80% of organizations still rely on manual processes, and almost 20% of T&E expenses fall outside policy. Knowing real spend can help negotiate lower supplier prices, avoid duplicate or fraudulent expenses, and speed employee reimbursement.

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    SAP Concur: How Usable Technology Affects T&E Management Efficiency

    A SAP Concur blog lists five reasons business technology should be easy to use: productivity, IT time savings, less shadow IT, cost control, and reduced employee frustration. It cites a Samanage survey saying U.S. companies waste $2 trillion annually on outdated technology, with 25.4% of workers saying company technology and policies hurt productivity and nearly 31% of millennials agreeing. It suggests surveying employees to identify which technologies to simplify first.

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    Gartner Report: TEM Innovation Is Mostly SaaS, Covering 16 Market Players

    A SAP Concur blog cites Gartner's Market Guide for Travel Expense Management Software, saying the most innovative TEM solutions are only available as SaaS and the report covers 16 market players. Gartner recommends using TEM innovation to demonstrate digital transformation, and notes ERP, procurement, and HCM vendors are deepening TEM functionality. SAP Concur says it leads TEM with more than 75% market share and the most differentiated solution.

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    IDC: SAP Concur Customers Gain $1.96M Annually, 650% Three-Year ROI

    An IDC study commissioned by SAP Concur interviewed seven organizations using SAP Concur solutions, with an average employee size of 1,906. IDC calculates an average benefit of $1.96 million per customer per year ($97,447 per 100 users) and a 650% ROI over three years. Benefits come from less time planning travel and completing reports, lower support staffing, better compliance and audit efficiency, and analytics-driven savings. The article also lists a five-stage TEM maturity model.

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    SAP Concur: Six Benefits of Automating AP and T&E for Small Universities

    A SAP Concur blog says smaller universities and community colleges often waste time and resources on manual processes and lack spend visibility. It lists six benefits of automating AP, travel, and expense: eliminating paper, faster reimbursement, actionable data, adoption and compliance, traveler safety, and reduced fraud and waste. It cites a Kelton study saying manual-system institutions spend over five extra hours per expense report and over two extra hours per invoice, and a 2018 ACFE survey saying 18% of higher-ed fraud comes from expense reimbursement schemes.

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    SAP Concur Releases Travel Expense Policy Template and Key Components

    A SAP Concur blog says companies devote an average of 10% of budget to employee travel and expense, and a formal policy provides reimbursement guidance and real-time budget visibility. It cites Oversight data saying 37% of business travelers had at least one exception on their expense reports and the typical company loses at least 5% of annual revenue to fraud. It lists key policy components including purpose, booking guidelines, reimbursable items, limits, documentation, approval workflow, company cards, tax compliance, and technology.

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    SAP Concur ExpenseIt Mobile Receipt Capture Explained

    SAP Concur published a blog explaining the ExpenseIt receipt-scanning feature in its mobile app. After logging into the SAP Concur mobile app and tapping ExpenseIt, users photograph receipts, and the system automatically creates, categorizes and itemizes expense entries, sends them to Concur Expense, matches credit card charges and itemizes complex hotel bills. Receipts can also be emailed to designated addresses. The feature is only available to users whose company has purchased access to the SAP Concur mobile app and ExpenseIt.