This SAP Concur blog post emphasizes the importance of communicating with travelers during emergencies. It notes that 70% of businesses are improving communication to reduce travel risk, and 43% cite effective communication as their greatest challenge. Companies need infrastructure to capture real-time itineraries and combine with risk assessment data.
This SAP Concur blog post offers advice for new finance leaders on building relationships, understanding company culture and politics, and managing up and down in their first 90 days. It emphasizes establishing strong working relationships through frequent two-way communication, one-on-one meetings, understanding company mission and decision-makers, and exploring cross-functional teams' finance needs.
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.
SAP Concur blog emphasizes that simply writing expense and invoice policies into an employee manual is not enough to ensure compliance. Achieving compliance requires collaboration, comprehension, and communication. Collaboration involves consulting department heads to ensure policies are feasible; comprehension requires clear, jargon-free language; communication means policies are accessible and embedded in workflows.