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  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Six Ways to Cash in on Your Business Expense Data

    A SAP Concur blog post outlines six ways companies can save money by tapping into business expense data: avoiding emergency borrowing, negotiating better rates with commonly used suppliers, preventing rogue spending, preparing audits with ease and reclaiming VAT effectively, making cost-effective strategic decisions, and enjoying efficiency savings. The post emphasizes that accurate, actionable data from automated expense, travel, and invoice systems helps identify spend patterns, anomalies, and savings opportunities.

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    SAP Concur: Get Smart About Managing Company Spend and Watch Your Business Grow

    A SAP Concur blog post discusses the benefits of a cost-conscious spend management strategy for SMBs during growth. Citing an Oxford Economics survey of 500 decision makers at expanding companies, including 150 classified as 'cost-conscious' SMBs, it reports cost-conscious SMBs are more likely to spend time on cash flow and spending management (74% vs 45%), expense report processing (67% vs 55%), growth strategy alignment (70% vs 38%), FP&A (71% vs 55%), IT collaboration (70% vs 38%), and payroll (57% vs 41%). After expansion, cost-conscious SMBs report fewer administrative issues such as invoice reconciliation (10% vs 59%), onboarding and training (11% vs 48%), digital and cybersecurity ma…

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    Strategies to Improve Business Cash Flow: Automating Expense and Invoice Management

    The article outlines strategies to improve business cash flow, including understanding money movement, cutting unnecessary costs, and streamlining payment processes. It recommends invoicing promptly, offering discounts for prompt payment, asking for deposits, controlling travel and expense spend, and using automation tools like Concur TripLink and Concur Expense to get expenses into the system faster, improving visibility and optimizing cash flow.

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    Four Tips to Prepare for Financial AI

    A SAP Concur blog post advises companies to establish a solid spend management process before incorporating artificial intelligence (AI). It offers four steps: understand the importance of spend management, get a 30,000-foot view of current processes, update processes with AI in mind, and get help from experts. SAP Concur CFO Jason Woods emphasizes that a spend management plan is critical to a company's financial health, regardless of industry or size.

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    Concur Expense Named a 2020 Top-Rated Expense Management Software by TrustRadius

    Concur Travel and Expense has again been named a Top-Rated Expense Management Software by TrustRadius. The TrustRadius Top Rated awards are based entirely on customer feedback and have never been influenced by analyst opinion or status as a TrustRadius customer. Each month, about 400,000 B2B technology buyers use more than 208,000 verified reviews and ratings on TrustRadius to make purchasing decisions. The 600+ reviews from verified users of Concur Expense highlight a positive user experience, visibility into budget, mobile receipt capture, and time savings, and reviewers appreciate its integration with productivity tools and the convenience of the SAP Concur mobile app. Megan Headley, VP…

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    SAP Concur: Transforming State and Local Government AP Processes to Control Costs

    SAP Concur's blog notes that state and local governments face declining tax revenues and remote-work pressures during the pandemic, with manual invoice processes exacerbating difficulties. An IDC white paper found that organizations using Concur Invoice achieved average annual benefits of $662,700 ($3,258 per 1,000 invoices) and a three-year ROI of 634%.

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    Is Automation the Overlooked Secret to Small Business Growth?

    A SAP Concur blog post argues that process automation is an overlooked key to small-business scaling. It cites an AMI-Partners study of SMB finance decision-makers: 69% reported cumbersome manual processes, 60% struggled to track spending and 56% dealt with missing paperwork. The post says cloud automation improves visibility into spending and cash flow, saves accounting teams 16% of their time (about 40 hours per week on invoice processing), makes expense reporting up to 80% faster for employees and delivers average annual savings of about $34,000.

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    SAP Concur: How Automated Expense Management Frees Finance to Focus on What Matters Most

    SAP Concur argues that manual and spreadsheet-driven processes have an even bigger impact on the efficiency and growth goals of small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs) given their resource constraints. It cites research that 41% of businesses have a paper-based expense process, 26% use spreadsheets to manage expenses, and 73% do not use automated expense management systems at all. It lists four categories of reasons SMBs have not automated, and cites AMI-Partners data that automated spending solutions deliver significant savings: improved tracking saves finance firms US$28,000 per year and retail businesses $33,000 per year; more-accurate data saves professional services firms $39,000 per year;…

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    SAP Concur: Use Expense Category Summaries to Keep Spend on Track

    SAP Concur published a blog recommending that businesses use expense category summary data to manage budgets. The article cites a Forrester report that 60% of IT decision makers are unsatisfied with T&E reporting and analytical capabilities, and notes that 75% of finance leaders say their business often exceeds expense, travel, and invoice budgets. SAP Concur recommends a single platform, employee education, and audit rules to improve spend visibility, and regularly running spend-by-expense-category reports.

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    SAP Concur Customers May Be Overlooking Process Efficiency

    A SAP Concur blog post argues that automation alone does not capture the full value of spend management technology, and customers should focus on expense processing cycle efficiency from report submission and approval to payment. It cites IDC research finding accounts payable staff were 30% more efficient and audit staff 28% more efficient with an optimized SAP Concur solution. It also says optimization improves total spend visibility, increases corporate card rebates and reduces employee late fees.

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    Does a Small Business Need an Employee Expense Policy?

    This SAP Concur blog post emphasizes that even small businesses with fewer than 20 employees benefit significantly from having a formal employee expense policy. It cites that moving from manual to automated, cloud-based solutions can increase process efficiency by 42%. The policy should clearly outline rules, responsibilities, and expectations, and be reviewed regularly. Automation tools like Concur Expense streamline submissions and approvals, enhancing compliance and reducing risk.

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    Manual to Mobile: The Shift in Business Spend Management

    This SAP Concur blog post discusses the shift from manual paper-based processes to mobile expense management. Citing SMB Group research, it notes that over half of SMBs have employees using mobile devices for business, and mobile solutions are considered critical. The article highlights how mobile technology boosts productivity and flexibility, with millennials driving the mobile-first trend.

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    How Business Leaders Drive Growth Through Intelligent Spend Management

    A Vanson Bourne study shows 96% of finance leaders believe their team will become more important in driving growth strategy. Finance and IT leaders must collaborate, using integrated spend management solutions to automate manual tasks and control discretionary spending, freeing finance staff to focus on growth. AMI-Partners notes 64% of businesses consider reducing operating expenses a strategic goal.

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    3 Tech Tips That Will Help School Districts Forge Ahead in This Pandemic

    This SAP Concur article offers three tech tips for school districts: prioritize resiliency, empower educators, and use anti-fraud technology. With nearly $300 billion in federal relief, districts must ensure transparent use of funds. Automating financial processes provides real-time cash flow views, and anti-fraud tech prevents misuse. SAP Concur expense and invoice tools help districts integrate data and assess budgets in real time.

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    How Small Businesses Are Using Spend Management To Drive Growth

    A podcast series by SAP Concur in collaboration with The Wall Street Journal's Custom Studios explores how SMBs can gain a clear view of spend by automating travel, expense, and invoice management. Automation can help optimize cash flow, speed up expense approvals and reimbursements, and save costs through data insights. The five-part series aims to uncover how companies drive growth through spend management innovation.

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    SAP Concur: Auditing Types and Best Practices for Expense Audits

    SAP Concur blog discusses three expense audit types: reactive, random, and 100% manual, citing an IDC report that Concur Invoice customers saw 46% more efficient invoice handling staff, 75% less invoice processing time, and 45% more efficient AP teams. It recommends optimizing audits by identifying exceptions, reducing exception trends, improving first-pass ratio, and increasing card adoption.

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    NEC Reduces T&E Management Time by 40% with SAP Concur

    NEC deployed SAP Concur solutions to reduce travel and expense administration time by approximately 40%, achieving annual savings of ¥200 million (US$1.8 million). Employees can photograph receipts and submit via mobile app, with integration to TMCs, corporate credit cards, and GDS for booking. The e-Bunsho timestamp feature aids Japanese administrators in compliance. During a major earthquake in Taiwan, NEC used risk management features to confirm employee safety within hours, compared to two to three days previously.

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    SAP Concur Launches China Development Center in Shanghai

    SAP Concur announced on April 17, 2019 the establishment of a China Development Center in Shanghai to develop and deliver end-to-end spend management solutions optimized for China's market. The center will strengthen capabilities in mobile, Fapiao, central billing and payments, with mobile innovations from China benefiting global customers. SAP Concur also enhanced its integration with Ctrip Corporate Travel to simplify pre-trip approval, booking and expense management. The company said it will expand its ecosystem with global and local partners to support Chinese companies operating locally and abroad.

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    AMI-Partners: Automated T&E Management Saves SMBs Over $31,000 a Year

    Citing an AMI-Partners survey, SAP Concur says SMBs that keep managing travel, expenses, and vendor invoices with spreadsheets or pen and paper lose time and money to inefficient processes, a problem that becomes clearer beyond 50 employees. The survey found SMBs using T&E automation save over US$31,000 per year, with Concur Expense users saving an average of $40,000; firms adopting vendor invoice management saved nearly $34,000 annually, and Concur Invoice users saved over $42,000.

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    SAP Concur Podcast: The Expense Reporting Road to Recovery with TCG Consulting

    SAP Concur podcast features Edward Curtis and Jim Coufal from TCG Consulting discussing revamping expense reporting systems post-pandemic. Topics include challenges with miscellaneous expense classification, mixing business and personal travel, proactive vs reactive expense reporting, and the unsustainability of manual processes in the future work environment. Coufal suggests balancing the number of expense types with simplicity and emphasizes there is no right or wrong answer—policies should fit organizational culture, employees, and industry.

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    SAP Concur: K-12 Budgeting—You Can't Manage What You Can't See

    SAP Concur's blog notes that school districts using paper spreadsheets or hybrid systems to manage spending lack budget visibility, potentially leading to squandered resources, overworked personnel, and non-compliance. Automated systems can shorten reimbursement cycles, simplify compliance reporting, reduce fraud and waste, and help districts allocate resources more strategically.

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    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…

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    SAP Concur Blog: Four Small T&E Process Changes for 2020

    A SAP Concur blog post notes that travel-related expenses are often the second-largest line item on a business's budget behind payroll, so efficiencies here can deliver significant returns. It proposes four small T&E process changes that can be made in 2019: first, enable Expense Assistant to automatically create an expense report and fill it with incoming expenses, either monthly or by trip; second, use the Missing Receipt Declaration function to capture missing receipts with a signed affidavit and use the Missing Receipt Audit Report to catch repeat offenders; third, update the receipt policy to disallow submitting an e-receipt or travel reservation without card data, and vice versa, to r…

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    Ensure Your New Spend Management Solution is Welcomed with Excitement

    SAP Concur shares three pillars for a successful spend management solution rollout: strategy and planning, training, and communication and measuring success. Planning involves defining success, creating pilot groups, respecting the company calendar, and involving the implementation team early. Training should be tailored, with tipsheets, FAQs, user champions, and education on T&E policy. Continuous communication and feedback help improve user adoption and ROI.

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    SAP Concur Outlines Four Tools to Rein in Rogue Spend

    A SAP Concur blog post highlights that rogue spend burdens finance teams, with IDC finding roughly 80% of spend managers' time goes to lower-level tasks such as invoice matching, purchase requisition, and vendor management. It recommends rewarding compliant employees (Rocketrip saves an average of 30% on travel expenses), integrating rideshare spend (Uber for Business and Lyft Business save an average of 30% on ground transportation), using financial integrators to connect spend data, and leveraging VAT reclaim solutions (increasing reclaim by up to 50%).

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    The Perks of Paperless Invoice Processing

    An SAP Concur blog post notes that most small and midsize business AP teams handle around 600 invoices per month, at least half of which are paper invoices. Invoices may pass through as many as 15 people before approval for payment. According to an IDC white paper, AP teams deploying Concur Invoice reduced time spent on invoice management tasks and manual processes by 34% and accelerated average time to pay vendors by 51%, equivalent to $511 for every 1,000 invoices processed. The article also highlights Schmetzer's Sporthaus's experience streamlining AP processes with Concur Invoice.

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    SAP Concur: Employee Well-Being Is Key to Sustainable Business Growth

    SAP Concur argues that sustainable growth goes beyond financials and means prioritizing employee well-being. It cites data that 39% of workers would be willing to work harder if they were happy in their current role or workplace, and Gallup data that 70% of employees lack engagement due to dissatisfaction, estimated to cost $450 billion to $550 billion in lost productivity per year. It uses RXBAR as an example: a surge in demand drove rapid growth, more employee travel led to a flood of expense reports, and the finance team spent extra hours compiling and reviewing submissions. By automating its expense process, RXBAR gained the insight and flexibility needed for fast, data-driven decisions.

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    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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    Geisinger AP Thought Leader Shares Top Read for 2022

    SAP Concur blog published its 2022 top book and podcast recommendations from T&E industry thought leaders. Ashely Lehman, Concur Administrator in Accounts Payable at Geisinger, recommended 'The Anticipatory Organization' by Daniel Burrus. She connected the book's hard and soft trends concept to hard and soft stops in audit rules, and suggested approaching travel policies with a hard and soft trend vision. She also noted that pandemic-related travel disruption provided an opportunity to re-examine travel programs and processes.

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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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    Top Considerations for Integrating SAP Concur Solutions

    A SAP Concur blog post outlines key considerations for integrating its spend-management solutions, including four integration methods: on-demand manual login, Secure FTP overnight import/export, Web Services via RESTful APIs, and pre-built connectors. It also stresses data security and compliance audits, future scalability, and says over 48,000 companies connect their financial systems to SAP Concur, with SAP's ecosystem offering more than 21,000 connected partner solutions.

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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.

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    Manual AP Processes: A Shining Example of Inefficiency for State and Local Government

    SAP Concur blog post highlights that state and local governments face inefficiencies, errors, and risks from manual AP processes during the pandemic. Surveys show 68% of decision makers say unexpected expenses and new spending categories are major challenges to remote work, and 67% have taken on three or more additional responsibilities. The article recommends automated invoice and expense processing to reduce fraud risk, errors, and late payments.

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    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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    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.