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Sep 25Fri
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Outlines How Finance System Integration Unifies Spend Visibility

    SAP Concur published a blog post outlining the value of finance system integration for travel, expense and invoice data. It notes that such data often sits across ERP, HR, payroll and finance tools, creating friction between teams and slowing decisions. Through pre-built connectors, APIs and partner solutions, SAP Concur says travel, expense and invoice data can flow securely and in real time into existing systems, enabling a single view of spend, reduced manual reconciliation, faster month-end close and greater confidence in reporting and forecasting.

Jun 29Mon
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    How to Calculate Business Cash Flow: T&E Impact and Automation

    SAP Concur blog explains how to calculate business cash flow, emphasizing its importance for financial health. It highlights that travel and expense (T&E) directly impacts cash flow, and lack of compliance controls can lead to fraud and leakage. Spend management automation improves compliance, simplifies taxes, and enhances invoicing, thereby improving cash flow visibility.

Jun 15Mon
May 2Sat
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    When Systems Collide: M&A Exposes Hidden T&E Risk in Healthcare

    SAP Concur blog discusses T&E challenges in healthcare M&A. CMS requires accurate cost reporting within 150 days of close, but many organizations spend 6-18 months reconciling systems, risking reimbursement delays and penalties. The article emphasizes multi-entity cost reporting, clinician compliance, multi-jurisdiction policies, and audit readiness, proposing a 90-day phased approach.

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Feb 9Mon
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    6 Ways Top Finance Leaders Are Staying Ahead of Spend in 2026

    According to SAP Concur research, finance teams in 2026 face ongoing volatility, with 35% of CFOs citing poor cost management as a top internal threat. Leading organizations are shifting from reactive to proactive spend management, integrating travel, expense, and accounts payable, and leveraging automation and AI for efficiency. Adopting SAP Concur can reduce business travel and expense costs by 23%, increase policy compliance by 28%, and enhance forecasting confidence.

Jan 22Thu
Dec 16Tue
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur vs Workday: Better Travel and Expense Management

    SAP Concur and Workday have different priorities in T&E management. Concur is purpose-built for global travel, expense, and compliance, offering end-to-end visibility and proactive compliance. User reviews show higher satisfaction for Concur in bank/credit card integration and currency conversion. Concur users save an average of $777K annually and see 32% higher compliance.

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    Using Opportunity Cost Analysis to Optimize Business Spending Decisions

    SAP Concur's blog introduces the opportunity cost analysis framework to help businesses evaluate resource allocation decisions. The article explains the opportunity cost formula and lists application scenarios such as capital investment, product development, time management, and technology selection. By quantifying the sacrifices of each option, companies can gain a more holistic view of the true cost of decisions, especially when budgets are tight. Using travel and expense management as an example, it illustrates how automated solutions reduce opportunity costs, citing survey data: integrated travel and expense platforms can increase policy compliance by 26%, save costs by 21%, and double…

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    Weatherford's Global Travel and Expense Management Transformation

    SAP Concur's blog shares the case study of Weatherford's global travel and expense management transformation. Weatherford, an oil and gas technology supplier with operations in 75 countries and 18,000 employees, adopted SAP Concur solutions to consolidate tools, update processes, and automate expense management, achieving significant results: 47% increase in workforce efficiency, 90% fewer expense report rejections, 26% reduction in T&E operations costs with over $5 million in savings, 770% leap in corporate card rebates, and 100% T&E card adoption.

May 5Mon
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    SAP Concur Case Study: A CFO Leads with AI-Driven Spend Management

    SAP Concur published a case-study article describing how Stephen, CFO of a mid-sized U.S. company, uses SAP Concur solutions for AI-driven spend management. It says he gains real-time visibility into spending across departments, regions and categories via the dashboard, uses Intelligence for real-time analytics, and relies on Concur Detect by Oversight and Concur Tax Assurance by Blue dot to improve compliance. The article cites figures: AI technology captured 10x the number of errors and fraud, automated audits reduced the cost of mistakes in expense reports by 60%, and using AI for initial investigation of expense reports reduced audit time by as much as 90%.

Feb 4Tue
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    How to Classify Corporate Expenses for Efficient Financial Management

    A SAP Concur blog post explores the importance of corporate expense classification for financial management and tax compliance. It distinguishes capital expenditures from regular business expenses, fixed versus variable expenses, operational versus administrative expenses, and regular versus extraordinary expenses. The article recommends maintaining detailed and accurate records, training employees on receipt retention, separating business and personal spending, and using automated expense management solutions to optimize classification, reduce errors, detect fraud, and monitor policy compliance.

Dec 16Mon
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    What Is the Role of Internal Audit in Fraud Risk Management?

    An SAP Concur article explores the role of internal audit in fraud risk management, especially in travel and expense. A survey shows 65% of business travelers admitted to questionable expenses. The article lists common fraud types, such as mischaracterized, falsified, inflated, and multiple claims, and recommends automated solutions, clear policies, and regular audits to prevent fraud.

Oct 7Mon
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    SAP Concur Report: 2024 Business Spending Trends

    SAP Concur released its 2024 Business Spending Trends report based on early 2024 spend data. The top seven employee spending categories remained unchanged from 2023, with Other/Miscellaneous at 32.04%, Air 17.67%, Lodging 17.36%, Meals 12.14%, Ground Transportation 5.72%, Entertainment 4.54% and Office 2.48%. Since 2019, the average transaction cost for Other has jumped 57% and Miscellaneous 47%. The report also cites research showing 90% of employees noticed their company cutting back on flexible travel options and 64% saw increased focus on pre-travel approval. 2023 data shows a 17% increase in claims with missing receipts, a 29% increase in spend for such claims, and a 10% increase in ex…

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    SAP Concur Releases Future-Ready Guide for Finance Leaders

    SAP Concur published a resource compilation for finance leaders covering career growth, team empowerment, and AI and finance technology adoption. It cites an SAP Concur CFO Insights report finding that 90% of senior finance leaders agree their key task is to prepare their business for the unexpected. Resources include an eBook on top CFO priorities for 2024, the fast track to CFO, the modern finance leader role, and AI and finance technology white papers.

Jan 29Mon
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    SAP Concur Survey: 90% of Finance Leaders See Unexpected-Prep as Critical

    An SAP Concur study of global senior finance leaders found that 90% agree preparing their business for the unexpected is a critical task today, while only 2% disagreed. The article proposes four resolutions for finance leaders: innovate to control costs, compliance, and cash flow through a unified platform and AI; strengthen visibility, analysis, and planning; adapt processes, policies, and priorities; and boost morale, productivity, and retention. It also covers automated indirect tax recovery such as VAT, integrating travel and expense data, and mobile expense reporting.

Jan 8Mon
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    SAP Concur Releases Finance Automation Checklist for Growing Businesses

    SAP Concur released a new checklist, "5 Ways Finance Automation Can Help Your Growing Business," examining improvements growing businesses can achieve by automating travel, expense, and invoice management. It cites Analysys Mason 2022 research: 32% less time to approve expenses, 26% less budget overspending, 24% reduction in late invoice payments, and 29% less time spent by AP and finance teams to capture invoices. The checklist recommends automated solutions that track expenses automatically with near real-time updates, provide better data and visibility, guide expense policies, manage invoices, and scale with the business.

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    SAP Concur eBook Explains Six Ways Automation Fuels Business Growth

    SAP Concur released an eBook, "6 Ways to Grow Your Business with Spend Management Automation," explaining how intelligent travel, expense, and invoice solutions address current challenges and prepare for growth. The six ways include maximizing automation and closing visibility gaps; tracking and responding to spending to stay ahead of cash flow; empowering flexible and on-the-go work; encouraging compliance and managing risk; making sustainability part of the process; and growing the business with spend data. It says end-to-end automation limits spending falling through process and system gaps, and AI flags problems and cuts off tax issues.

Nov 28Tue
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    Expense Reconciliation: Improving Financial Clarity and Control

    An SAP Concur blog post explains the definition, importance and automation value of expense reconciliation. Expense reconciliation is the process accounting departments use to balance the books and ensure payments to vendors and employees are accurate, involving checking whether expenses comply with company policies, are categorized correctly and charged to the right budget lines. The article notes reconciliation helps with fraud management, error prevention and assessing financial health, and recommends automation such as e-receipts, digital invoice storage and app-based submission and approval to streamline data collection.

Jun 22Thu
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    Spend Insights Report: T&E Spending Growth and Violation Analysis

    The Spend Insights Report by SAP Concur and Oversight shows T&E spending rose 73% year over year in 2022, with travel-specific spending up 178% from Q1 to Q4, including airline spending up 400% and lodging up 207%. Employee out-of-pocket cash spending jumped 81% and was the top category, accounting for 44% of all violations. Spending violations rose 7.9% year over year, costing companies $91.3 million, a 9.83% increase. The report recommends stronger training, electronic receipt management, and audit tools.

Jan 20Fri
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    IDC MarketScape Recognizes SAP as a Leader in T&E Management Software for Enterprise and Midmarket

    SAP maintained its position in the Leaders Category in the 2022–2023 IDC MarketScape for worldwide SaaS and cloud-enabled Travel and Expense Applications. The assessment focuses on expense management offerings and their integration with travel management services and networks. IDC research director Kevin Permenter noted that more businesses added features to control travel spend or provide duty of care-related functionality, a powerful differentiator for vendors with ties to emerging areas like auditing, sustainability, virtual cards, and duty of care. SAP Concur's strengths include global reach (80 million end users, 150+ countries, 29 languages), midmarket experience, integrated solutions…

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  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: Transparency and Accountability in Energy and Utilities Spend Management

    SAP Concur published spend management guidance for the energy and utilities sector, noting the pandemic forced rapid digitization and organizations should now assess those rushed fixes. The T&E spend violation rate skyrocketed 292% from 2019 to 2020. Fraud remains a serious problem, with utilities seeing a median fraud loss of $200K. It recommends finance and IT collaboration and digital spend management tools for near real-time spend and cash flow visibility. An IDC report found 90% of decision-makers see room to improve spend control.

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    SAP Concur: Compliance and Accountability in State and Local Government Spend Management

    SAP Concur published spend management guidance for state and local government organizations, noting the pandemic forced rapid digitization and organizations should now assess those rushed fixes. The T&E spend violation rate skyrocketed 292% from 2019 to 2020. Government fraud varies by level: national government 46% affected ($200,000 median loss), state government 27% ($56,000), local government 25% ($125,000). It recommends finance and IT collaboration and digital spend management tools. An IDC report found 90% of decision-makers see room to improve spend control.

Jul 18Mon
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    Gaining Accuracy and Confidence in Every Spending Decision

    A SAP Concur blog post notes that remote work and the return to travel shifted spending patterns and made policy compliance more difficult. SAP Concur's Spend Insights Report found excessive personal expenses jumped 21.8% in 2021, and its Pulse Survey revealed the average questionable travel expense ran $3,397. The post offers five tips, including bringing travel, expense, and invoice data together and using real-time information to improve spend visibility.

Jul 9Sat
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    Level Up Spend Management in Aerospace, Defense, and Government Contracting

    A SAP Concur blog post argues that aerospace, defense, and government contracting organizations should assess the rushed digital fixes implemented during the pandemic. It cites data showing the T&E spend violation rate skyrocketed 292% from 2019 to 2020, and 90% of decision-makers say there is room to improve how they control spend. Organizations deploying an integrated spend management platform reported $777,000 in annual savings on business travel and expense reporting costs.

Jul 1Fri
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    Government Contract Travel Expense Compliance and Audit Essentials

    SAP Concur partner NeoSystems outlines that government contract travel cost reimbursement is governed by FAR 31.205-46, requiring contractor procedures to meet allowability requirements. Key compliance points include: combining visits within the same geographical area into a single trip; using the lowest customary standard coach airfare during normal business hours to the maximum extent possible; and coordinating travel to minimize trips to the same location. Concur Expense tracks GSA per diem rates, integrates with TMCs, and automatically separates unallowable costs.

Jun 29Wed
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    Surviving Disruption: Best Practices from Lyndon Group for T&E Management

    A SAP Concur blog post shares a podcast conversation with Lyndon Group about optimizing T&E management during disruption. Lyndon Group won the SAP Concur Partner Growth award for helping customers optimize platforms. The conversation covers ERP transitions, automation, policy creation, auditing, and regulatory changes. Key advice includes early involvement in ERP planning, leveraging automation, clear policies, and healthy auditing.

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    Ask the Experts: Building a Best-in-Class T&E Fraud Prevention and Detection Program

    PwC's 2018 Global Economic Crime and Fraud Survey found that 49% of organizations globally have been victims of fraud, up from 36% previously. Companies are scrutinizing travel and expense (T&E) spend to prevent and detect fraud. SAP Concur experts answered questions at an ACFE webinar on global expense policy compliance, gift handling, audit rules, automatic corporate card feeds, senior management expense review, and AI detection tools, recommending automation, integration, and proactive reporting to build a best-in-class T&E program.

  3. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur and Groupize Launch Self-Served, Centralized Meeting Management

    A SAP Concur blog post introduces Concur Event Management by Groupize, addressing logistical, budgetary, and compliance challenges of traditional meeting management. Meeting costs average 41% of organizations' T&E budgets but are spread across systems and spreadsheets, lacking total cost visibility. The solution offers self-service planning, automated rules and approvals, venue bidding, safety protocols (e.g., vaccination card upload and contact tracing), one-click shift to virtual, and cost tracking from initial to final budget for ROI assessment.

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    SAP Concur and Ariba Promote Intelligent Spend Management at SAP Ariba Live

    At SAP Ariba Live, SAP Concur and Ariba discussed Intelligent Spend Management, SAP's approach to helping customers unify spending data across travel, expense, invoice, and procurement categories. Customer feedback highlighted that growth brings complexity, making it difficult to bring together complete, timely spending data across categories, which limits visibility and slows decision-making. SAP aims to address this by integrating best-of-breed solutions for travel, expense, invoice management, and direct and indirect procurement.

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    Key Small Business Growth Mistakes to Avoid

    A SAP Concur blog post states that the first step to small business growth is planning. It emphasizes that cash flow is a more critical metric than profit, as poor cash flow is one of the biggest contributors to small business failure. Recommendations include establishing an expense policy to govern travel spending, using automation tools like Concur Expense and TripLink to streamline travel and expense processes, and reducing the average cost of processing a single invoice by more than 80% with Concur Invoice.

  6. SAP Concur Blog

    June 30 Approaches: Have You Filed to Reclaim VAT?

    A SAP Concur blog post reminds companies that travel and expense is the second largest annual budget item after payroll, and a significant portion may be recoverable through Value Added Tax (VAT) reclaims. VAT recovery is possible in more than 40 countries, but the process is complex and time-consuming. An OECD survey found that over 70% of businesses found reclaim procedures difficult to navigate, and 20% were unable to recover any VAT. The article recommends simplifying the process through integrated solutions in the SAP Concur App Center.