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Feb 1Thu
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Discusses the Impact of Corporate Travel Managers on Business

    SAP Concur published an article discussing the key role of corporate travel managers. It notes that travel and expense (T&E) can account for 8% to 12% of an organization's spending, nearly two-thirds of companies face increasing pressure to manage costs, and three-quarters say travel is important or very important to managing customer relationships and obtaining new business. Corporate travel managers impact business by building strategic policies, optimizing travel arrangements, making data-driven decisions, aligning with sustainability initiatives, integrating technology, and enhancing employee productivity.

Nov 28Tue
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    How a Travel Management Company (TMC) Can Help Simplify Business Travel

    An SAP Concur blog post explains the definition, operations and core value of travel management companies (TMCs). TMCs specialize in corporate travel needs, assisting with booking air travel, hotels, car rentals, train reservations and car services, and providing itinerary management and support throughout the trip. TMCs typically charge on a subscription or fee-for-service basis, offering benefits including streamlined processes, data gathering, 24/7 support, better prices, policy compliance, risk alerts and data analytics.

Apr 20Thu
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    Outdated Travel Policy? 5 Tips to Update It Today

    An SAP Concur blog post argues that outdated travel policies cost organizations financially, strategically and culturally. Barb Bammer, a senior solutions consultant at SAP Concur, spoke with Ben Claxton and Jeff Saydah of Fox World Travel and offered five tips: don't delay reassessment and review quarterly or at least annually; set measurable goals and revisit them; align policy with company values; keep employee experience top of mind and involve travelers; and track successes while learning from failures.

Apr 13Thu
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    Acting Like Our Future Matters

    An SAP Concur blog post says businesses are moving from climate pledges to action, actively reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions, changing policies on diversity, equity and inclusion, and progressing toward net-zero goals. It cites data that 60% of business leaders say sustainability has a moderate or strong effect on long-term competitiveness and profitability, and 59% believe environmental issues are, or soon will be, material to business results. It advises determining what matters most, creating a realistic path to net-zero and proving measured progress, with top management modeling sustainable behaviors.

Dec 13Tue
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Shares Methods to Increase Expense Audit Efficiency

    A SAP Concur blog post discusses how to improve the efficiency of corporate expense report auditing. Citing an IDC report, it states that automating the audit process can make expense report intake and handling 36% more efficient, reduce report completion time by 43%, and result in 65% more policy-compliant expense reports. The article recommends best practices such as reducing internal auditor effort, increasing data entry accuracy, using data to identify improvement opportunities, employing pre-authorized requests, reducing exceptions, improving first-pass ratio, increasing card adoption, and providing ongoing training.

Dec 12Mon
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    SAP Concur Releases 2023 Travel Priorities Predictions for Business Leaders

    A SAP Concur blog post shares predictions for business leaders' travel priorities in 2023. Citing an early 2022 SAP Concur pulse survey, it notes that 88% of U.S. finance managers said their company experienced a revenue loss in 2021 as a direct result of employees' inability to travel at pre-pandemic levels. Additionally, the GBTA CWT Global Business Travel Forecast 2023 report found that the cost per event attendee is expected to be around 32% higher in 2023 than in 2019. The article advises companies to weigh the costs and benefits of their travel programs and balance saving money with positioning for growth when the economy stabilizes.

Aug 10Wed
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Re-platforms Concur Travel to Build the Travel Platform of the Future

    SAP Concur announced it is re-platforming Concur Travel, rebuilding it from scratch with microservices technology to improve scalability, reliability, and flexibility. Over the past two years it added more than 200 engineers and product managers, one of the most significant development investments in its history. The roadmap includes a new car rental experience by end-2022, an end-to-end hotel booking experience in early 2023, a new air experience around GBTA Convention 2023, and additional rail carriers in Europe and the US. SAP Concur says it has the only truly integrated global T&E platform, serving 50,000+ customers with 700+ ecosystem partners.

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    SAP Concur Survey: 94% of Business Travelers Plan to Reduce Travel's Environmental Impact

    SAP Concur's fourth annual Global Business Traveler Survey of 3,850 business travelers across 25 markets found 94% plan to take steps over the next 12 months to reduce their business travel's environmental impact, including combining trips (40%), prioritizing non-air options (34%), shorter distances (32%), greener hotels (32%), avoiding layovers (31%), and using public transport (31%). 92% want sustainability information in booking tools. Younger travelers place greater emphasis on sustainable travel. SAP Concur partners with Thrust Carbon and CHOOOSE for carbon management, and TripIt offers a carbon footprint feature.

Jun 29Wed
  2. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Launches New TMC Partner Program

    SAP Concur launched a revamped TMC Partner Program, replacing the Preferred Partner Program, with three levels: TMC Partner, TMC Select, and TMC Elite. The program is not pay-to-play; TMCs earn levels based on the value they offer customers. TMC Elite partners have adopted the full suite of SAP Concur travel solutions (including TripLink) and use Concur Expense in their own business, enabling increased visibility and control of all T&E spend, compliance across reservations, and improved traveler safety.

  3. SAP Concur Blog

    Taming the Wild West of Corporate Travel: A Win-Win for Travel Expense and Finance Leaders

    A SAP Concur blog post notes corporate travel spend is getting harder to manage: travelers book via mobile apps and supplier websites, and new distribution channels fragment booking and cost data. GBTA data shows 77% of businesses are not completely confident they can quickly and accurately locate business travelers in an emergency. Compared with five years ago, experienced travel managers spend 66% more time on data and analysis reporting, 66% more on evaluating or implementing new technology, 60% more on traveler safety and duty of care, and 52% more on cross-department meetings or collaboration. The article recommends finance and travel program leaders work together to deploy solutions t…

  4. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: Is Corporate Travel Ready for Artificial Intelligence?

    SAP Concur blog explores AI's potential in corporate travel, including preference-based booking tools, automatic search and suggestions, and intelligent services that reshape itineraries based on cost, weather, and colleague schedules. It notes IATA's 2017 survey found 85% of passengers willing to provide more personal data for customization, but data ownership and privacy issues remain.

  5. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: Going Beyond Travel Automation to Help Businesses Go Green

    SAP Concur argues that after automating travel and expense (T&E) processes, organizations can further leverage travel data to advance sustainability. It recommends adopting booking systems that display carbon emissions per flight segment and promoting suppliers with sustainable practices. SAP Concur and its App Center partners such as Scope 5, Lyft, and auto rental companies can help track business-travel emissions, select flight or train routes based on carbon emissions, include hybrid options in car-rental selections, and provide carbon-neutral rides. Customers can also run reports to identify the travel categories with the highest carbon emissions and educate employees on reducing their…

  6. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Fusion 2019 in San Diego Focuses on AI and Automation

    A SAP Concur blog post reviews its annual event, SAP Concur Fusion 2019, where more than 3,200 customers, partners, and employees gathered in San Diego for four days of networking, learning sessions, and micro-forums. It highlights Innovation Award winners: Alteryx eliminated manual processes and applied analytics to travel and expenses; Discovery used Concur Expense and TripLink to connect travel and expense and integrated Uber and Airbnb to let employees book directly with suppliers while staying in policy; and George Washington University moved from a paper-based system to Concur Expense for improved controls and traceability, and uses Concur Locate to protect student safety. The article…

  7. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Launches Personalized Service Status Dashboard

    SAP Concur announced that effective September 11, 2018, it released a Personalized Concur Open service status dashboard, letting users view the status of their own account's services and subscribe to relevant updates. The feature also adds a two-year history of incidents that affected the user and, in many cases, a Detailed Root Cause Analysis PDF download. The dashboard continues to show only P1 incidents, and users log in with existing credentials.

  8. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Appoints Jim Lucier as President

    SAP Concur announced the appointment of Jim Lucier as president, effective July 1, 2019. Lucier, previously Chief Revenue Officer for North America and Chief Services Officer, will succeed retiring Mike Eberhard. Eberhard, president since October 2016, will serve as an advisor after the transition. Christal Bemont was promoted to Chief Revenue Officer for global sales. Barry Padgett, president of SAP Intelligent Spend Group, will oversee supplier spending across Ariba, Fieldglass, and Concur.

  9. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Announces 2019 Innovation Award Winners

    SAP Concur announced its 2019 Innovation Award winners at its annual Fusion conference. The awards received 58 entries from customers across 11 countries, with five best-run organizations selected. Winners drove automation, integration, and analytics into travel, expense, and invoice processes. Alteryx saved more than $130K on travel in the last year using SAP Concur and Rocketrip; NEC reduced time spent on travel and expense management by 40%, translating to approximately 200 million yen ($1.8M USD) per year; RED achieved more than 20% annual savings on taxi services by introducing Uber for Business.

  10. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Q3 2018: Global Companies Adopt Network and Spend Management Cloud Solutions

    SAP SE announced that companies worldwide are adopting its end-to-end network and total spend management cloud solutions. In Q3 2018, SAP's cloud revenue surged 41% year-over-year at constant currencies, and new cloud bookings grew 37%. Companies including KIO Networks, Delivery Hero, iLoLay, and Grupo Energía Bogotá adopted SAP Ariba, SAP Concur, and SAP Fieldglass solutions. Ariba Network connects over 3.6 million companies with more than US$2.28 trillion in annual commerce. SAP Concur solutions processed over 258 million transactions in the past four quarters, and Concur TripLink covers more than 7.5 million travelers.

  11. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Blog: Travel Managers Should Become Strategists

    A SAP Concur blog post notes that safety, risk, sustainability, and control of spend are common topics at the moment. As travel managers assess these challenges, they may ask how to prove their value when travel is reduced and budgets are lower. The article argues that successful travel managers should evolve from tacticians to strategizers, from doers to thinkers, and from second fiddle to the orchestra's conductor. It advises travel managers to understand how colleagues feel about getting back on the road and articulate the value of travel itself to the organization, and to look to travel management companies (TMCs) and technology to do the heavy lifting of booking, expensing, invoicing,…

  12. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Study: 98% of Organizations Willing to Commit Additional Funds to Sustainable Travel

    A SAP Concur blog post cites an EMEA-focused study finding that 98% of organizations said they are prepared to commit additional funds to sustainable travel over and above their current travel management budget. However, one-third of corporate travel decision-makers say it is difficult to put their sustainability aspirations into practice, and 28% say they are aware of the issues but unsure how to effect change.

  13. SAP Concur Blog

    Sustainable Business Travel: 59% of Decision-Makers Want It, Few Can Implement

    A SAP Concur blog post cites a survey finding that 59% of corporate travel decision-makers feel passionately about greener travel programs but find it difficult or are unsure how to implement them. It also cites the UK Climate Change Risk Assessment of 2022 saying climate change will soon cost the UK economy £26 billion per year, and notes COP26 announced that businesses of a certain size must publish net-zero plans.

  14. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: Automated Expense and Travel Management Is the Right Move

    SAP Concur argues that an automated travel and expense management system can help companies control costs that have historically been difficult to manage. It notes that travel and expense costs were the second most difficult cost to control in corporate settings, and that outdated budgeting systems and misplaced documents make consolidation and reporting hard. A cloud-based system lets employees track spending on the go and maintain reports in one place, and submitting spending as it occurs helps avoid year-by-year losses. Immediate tracking and consolidated reporting also improve spend visibility, helping companies better understand budgets and reallocate savings. Companies can use this da…

  15. SAP Concur Blog

    Flight Centre Travel Group Expands Use of Concur Compleat

    SAP Concur announced an expanded partnership with Flight Centre Travel Group, which will use Concur Compleat travel agency automation services globally. Flight Centre has company-owned operations in 23 countries and a corporate travel management network spanning more than 90 countries. Compleat is expected to ticket over 120 million reservations in 2019. The expanded partnership is expected to at least triple the annual number of transactions Flight Centre processes through Compleat.

  16. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: Concur Travel Connecting to United Airlines NDC Content

    SAP Concur announced it will make United Airlines NDC content available to all customers through Select Access. United's NDC APIs will display its bundles of ancillary services, configurable in Concur Travel and uniquely available through the NDC channel. The post notes that since 2019, all customers have had access to NDC content from British Airways and the Lufthansa Group through Select Access (Travelfusion), making Concur Travel the first corporate online booking tool (OBT) to provide NDC access. It also notes United has been a North American pioneer in multi-channel distribution and was the first airline to connect to Concur TripLink. In the future, Concur Travel plans to obtain NDC co…

  17. SAP Concur Blog

    Six Ways for Enterprises to Close Spend Loopholes with Tech

    A SAP Concur blog post cites data showing significant non-compliant corporate spend: 56% of organizations generally reimburse employees for out-of-policy spend, 52% of hotel and air bookings are made outside corporate channels, $19 billion of spend was labeled 'other' in 2019 by SAP Concur customers, and 20% of companies say they cannot recover VAT due to complex procedures. The post says employee spend is the second largest cost next to payroll, and notes that supplier-employee direct relationships, numerous booking channels, employees not waiting for formal processes, and COVID-19 and remote-work expenses falling outside policy make spend hard to track. It also cites ACFE data that during…

  18. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: Six Ways Automation Can Unlock T&E Savings

    A SAP Concur blog post argues that rapid changes in technology and traveler behavior are reshaping corporate travel, requiring modern solutions to control employee spend. It lists six ways automation can uncover savings, including reducing manual-entry errors, cutting management time, and gaining visibility into mobile spend. It cites a 2015 Oversight Systems study finding one in ten travelers submits at least one duplicate expense in error, at roughly $50 per error, and notes that poor mobile-contract management can mean overpaying by as much as 30% per device.

  19. SAP Concur Blog

    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.

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