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  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Launches Self-Guided Expense Demo

    SAP Concur released a self-guided Concur Expense demo allowing potential customers to quickly experience the expense management process. The demo simulates a business conference trip, showing how to automatically import an Uber receipt, use machine learning to parse receipt details, create and submit an expense report, and have a manager approve via mobile app. The article highlights integrations with hotels, car rental companies, and airlines that reduce manual entry and improve compliance and spend visibility.

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    SAP Concur Solutions Help SMBs Stay Agile and Support Growth

    SAP Concur blog shares two customer cases: The Tech Interactive, a San Jose science museum, used Concur Expense and Concur Invoice to automate approval workflows, saving manual processing time and improving spend visibility; Wisconsin manufacturer WB Manufacturing, anticipating doubling sales in three years, deployed Concur Travel and Concur Expense in under three months, with sales team submitting expense reports after one day of training.

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    Dynamic Spend Management: Adapting to New Workforce Needs in Higher Education

    A SAP Concur blog post discusses how higher education institutions are adapting to hybrid work models. It cites Future Forum's Remote Employee Experience Index data: 83% of employees across all industries no longer want to work in-person five days a week, and 20% indicated they wanted to work remotely full-time. The article suggests institutions rethink staffing for online and in-person instruction, parking policies, technology tools, and more, while managing campus expectations. It mentions task forces at UCLA, Boston University, and Duke, and automation cases at the University of Alabama and Penn State University. Penn State processes more than 240,000 expense reports a year and saw no ba…

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    How State and Local Agencies Can Approve Invoices Remotely with Concur Invoice

    SAP Concur offers Concur Invoice to help state and local governments automate accounts payable processes, reduce manual work, stabilize operations, and provide spend visibility during uncertain times. The solution uses SAP Leonardo machine learning for a touchless process, supports remote vendor invoice capture, mobile approval, and near real-time visibility, and provides audit trails and secure cloud storage.

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    New Normal: Remote Workers, PPE and Potential Tax Implications

    A SAP Concur blog post examines expense and tax issues arising from post-pandemic remote work. It cites United Airlines predicting the industry will not return to 2019 travel levels until 2024, and an FCM study predicting business travel may remain low until 2023. The author raises potential reimbursement costs such as home internet and office equipment, noting that $65 per month for 10,000 workers adds $650,000 in monthly costs, and for 100,000 workers $6.5 million monthly. The post also discusses tax risks from 'work from anywhere' arrangements and mentions a California utility tax effective November 1, 2020.

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    How Tweaking Spending Management Can Help Businesses Cope with Financial Pressure

    A SAP Concur blog post notes that in an environment of declining budgets and tight finances, businesses first think of cutting or controlling costs, but many lack a complete picture of their expenses. Too much spending is hidden, on personal credit cards, with too little oversight, and remote work has made it messier. The article recommends using tools to govern spending, capture every expense of every employee, automate invoices and auditing, and see finances in real time. It also offers a counterintuitive point: during cost control, make it easier for employees to spend, direct them to corporate cards and correct payment processes, making compliance the easiest and fastest option to obtai…

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    SAP Concur Explains How Consolidating Spend Management Tech Enables Business Resiliency

    SAP Concur published an article citing IDC that the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of digital transformation for staying agile. The article argues that too many platforms and tools can lead to data silos, onerous reporting, and departments using non-standardized tools, hampering business agility. It recommends evaluating the current mix of spend management platforms and vendors to consider consolidation for business resiliency.

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    SAP Concur: Recovery or Not — How Finance Leaders Can Maintain Balance

    A SAP Concur blog post for SMB finance leaders discusses spend management best practices for maintaining business resilience in uncertain economic conditions. Citing an Oxford Economics survey of small businesses, it notes many SMBs adopted some form of digitization, but some remain on manual paper processes or partial automation, leading to workflow roadblocks, spend visibility gaps, and compliance issues. Suggested building blocks of resilience include streamlined processes, clear policies, up-to-date spend visibility, employee support, and cost control. The post states automating expense and AP processes can deliver real-time spend views, eliminate paper receipts, auto-populate expense r…

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    SAP Concur Podcast: How AI and SaaS Are Reshaping Finance and Expense Management

    In a SAP Concur podcast, Oversight's Mike Eberhard and Chris Juneau discuss how AI and machine learning help finance teams identify spending patterns. SAP Concur's Jeanne Dion says SaaS lets finance professionals implement technology quickly with a lighter IT lift, positioning them as more strategic partners. Juneau notes humans aren't ideally suited for pattern matching across vast data, and AI could be liberating for finance professionals. Dion points out that without AI, identifying fraudulent behavior can take up to 14 months. Eberhard sees back-office processes like expenses or payables as a perfect spot to automate, ignored for 20 years.

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    Five Very Good Reasons to Automate Your Accounts Payable Management

    A SAP Concur blog post cites International Data Corporation (IDC) research analyzing the costs and benefits of switching to a cloud-based accounts payable solution. It lists five reasons: cloud AP solutions redefine how businesses engage with stakeholders, with average time to pay vendors accelerating by 51% and late payments cut by 67%; manual AP processes are slow, inefficient, fragmented, and prone to error, with one business reducing its error rate by 90% after automation; invoice management software provides a more accurate picture of finances; automation improves user productivity, with line-of-business employee productivity up to 11% and IT staff productivity gains equivalent to $23,…

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    SAP Concur Lists High-Risk Expense Types, Urges Clear Policy to Curb Rogue Spend

    A SAP Concur blog post says managing employee spend across growing categories and payment methods leaves room for error and non-compliance, creating mistrust, misuse and wasted time. It cites an IDC report finding 30% of executives are concerned with compliance to spend management policies in order to make strategic business decisions. Based on SAP Concur customer data, the post lists 14 high-risk expense types out of 29, including airfare, car rentals, entertainment, lodging, meals, meetings and tradeshows, mileage reimbursement, office supplies, rent, rail and telecom/internet, and recommends running your own high-risk expense list to prioritize auditing.

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    5 Unique Challenges of Managing Healthcare Spend

    The SAP Concur blog analyzes five differences in healthcare travel and expense management: less frequent but longer air travel, higher mileage expenses, a non-mandate culture, amplified fiduciary responsibility, and complex not-for-profit or religious affiliation rules. It cites a survey showing an average of 45% of hotel bookings are direct bookings and 64% of customers say physicians exceed budgets annually. These factors make expense visibility and compliance especially difficult for healthcare organizations.

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    Cardlay Plans Concur Expense Integration to Advance Virtual Card Payments

    SAP Concur partnered with Danish fintech company Cardlay to integrate Cardlay's virtual card technology into the SAP Concur platform. The partnership supports a 'bring your own bank' strategy, allowing customers to choose their preferred financial institution while benefiting from integrated virtual card management. With the integration, Concur Expense users gain pre-authorization of spend, mobile virtual cards, simplified approval workflows, and automated reconciliation. A phased launch is targeted for late 2021 in the UK, with global expansion expected in 2022.

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    How Can Digital Spend Management Improve Work Life and Support Business Growth?

    SAP Concur blog notes post-pandemic employees expect flexible work locations and efficient tools. Finance and IT must collaborate on digital spend management to maintain employee satisfaction and support growth. An Oxford Economics study shows organizations that have digitalized expense or invoice management see increases in spend visibility (37%), organizational agility (47%), cross-functional collaboration (36%), and employee productivity (43%).

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    The Top 4 Spend Management Challenges Financial Service Firms Face

    A SAP Concur blog post analyzes four major spend management challenges facing financial services firms: high compliance costs, fraud risks, outdated technology, and mobile work needs. Citing a Duff & Phelps survey, 24% of financial services executives expect compliance spending to exceed 5% of revenue by 2023. The article recommends automating expense reports, implementing corporate card programs, using data analytics, and adopting mobile solutions to address these challenges.

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    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.

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    How Federal Agencies Can Jump the Enterprise Mobile App Hurdle

    A SAP Concur blog post discusses the challenges and opportunities for federal agencies in adopting mobile-first strategies. It cites a Frost and Sullivan study showing almost half of government employees are regularly in remote locations, 55% of agencies allow employees to use personal mobile devices, and the remaining 45% have issued devices. Providing the right tools can increase job satisfaction, speed up decisions, maintain compliance, and improve accuracy. The ConcurGov mobile app allows government employees to complete approximately 85% of travel and expense management needs on the go, including creating and editing vouchers, freeing approvers from office hours.

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    How to Reclaim More VAT on Corporate Travel Expenses

    SAP Concur blog post discusses VAT recovery on corporate travel expenses. It cites GBTA data that over 480 million business trips are taken annually and notes a €137 billion VAT gap in the EU. The article recommends using automation and digitalization to improve VAT compliance and recovery efficiency, citing examples of Electrolux and Citrix Systems achieving significant VAT recovery increases through automation.

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    SAP Concur Customer Community: 45,000 Users Share T&E Management Know-How

    SAP Concur outlines how its customer community helps travel, expense and invoice (TE&I) professionals connect with peers. The community counts roughly 45,000 users, with more than 20,000 active in open forums. Members can ask questions, join industry groups, attend virtual roundtables and in-person user groups, and take part in SAP Concur Fusion and Fusion Exchange events. SAP Concur also uses industry Leadership Councils to track trends and shape content and event agendas.

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    Three Best Practices for Mileage Reimbursement with GPS Automation

    The article says mileage reimbursement is a common travel and expense line item, and inaccurate or inefficient handling leads to overspending, employee frustration and compliance issues. SAP Concur's Concur Drive uses GPS to automatically log trips, calculate mileage and apply preset reimbursement rates. It offers three best practices: update policies, keep it accurate and make it mobile. Automated mileage tracking can save up to 21 hours per employee per year, and mobile mileage tracking tools can cut personal mileage expenses by 20%-30%.

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    A Finance Leader's Guide to Supporting Software Deployment in a Remote-Work World

    SAP Concur published a guide on the role of finance leaders in supporting software deployment in a remote-work environment. The article notes that analysts predict 25% to 30% of personnel will work from home at least multiple days a week by the end of 2021, and finance leaders need to actively engage in four areas: stakeholder engagement, rollout strategy, change management, and software/process optimization to ensure ROI.

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    SAP Concur: Fully Digitizing Spend Management Boosts Agility and Saves Costs

    SAP Concur cites a May 2021 Oxford Economics survey of over 500 senior business leaders across seven countries, finding increasing agility is the top goal but culture change and digitizing manual operations remain challenges. Among businesses that digitized expense, invoice, and cash flow management, 43% cite increased agility and resiliency from digitizing AP, 42% cite increased productivity from digitizing expenses, and 35% cite increased functional collaboration from digitizing cash flow management. AMI-Partners research found SMBs saved $30K annually with automated expense solutions and $34K with invoice solutions; Concur customers saved $39K annually with each solution. ACFE estimates…

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    Improve Visibility and Cashflow with Intelligently Automated AP Management

    SAP Concur blog post describes how Concur Invoice solution improves AP management through automation. Citing IDC white paper data, it shows companies using Concur Invoice achieved average annual benefits of $662,700, reduced invoice processing time by 75%, improved AP staff efficiency by 45% and auditing staff efficiency by 40%, with an average payback period of four months and a 634% three-year ROI.

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    Lumen Technologies Helps State and Local Governments Optimize Remote Work

    A SAP Concur blog post notes that state and local governments face tighter budgets and remote work challenges. A Wakefield study found 88% of agency respondents felt many back-end operations cannot be managed remotely. Lumen Technologies, a SAP Concur reseller partner, offers spend management solutions including Concur Travel, Concur Expense, and Concur Invoice to automate and connect the entire spend process, helping government agencies gain visibility, maintain compliance, and support remote work.

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    Three Reasons to Adopt a Travel and Expense Management Solution: Simplicity, Safety, Spending

    A SAP Concur blog post, citing IDC MarketScape research, outlines three business benefits of adopting an app-based travel and expense management solution. First, simplicity: employees can book and manage trips via mobile, with itinerary and credit card data consolidated, reducing paperwork and boosting productivity and engagement. Second, safety: the solution collects itinerary details from every booking channel and combines them with card transaction data to locate and reach employees in emergencies, fulfilling duty of care. Third, spending: full visibility into bookings and spend helps identify savings, track budgets, strengthen supplier negotiations, and support policy compliance, regula…

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    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…

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    Public Sector Spend Management Mistakes Have Major Consequences

    A SAP Concur blog emphasizes the responsibility of the public sector in travel, expense, and invoice management, noting that manual processes and siloed data hinder fraud and compliance management. It recommends automated solutions using AI and machine learning to spot anomalies, and OCR and three-way matching for accuracy, to help public sector meet higher fiscal responsibility.

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    SAP Concur Article Explores Challenges in Corporate Duty of Care for Travelers

    SAP Concur published an article citing 2017 Security Magazine data that more than one million people are in the air, over 400,000 of them traveling for business. Citing a 2018 SAP Concur customer survey, it notes 98% of organizations express confidence in their duty of care approach, yet nearly 25% don't store or regularly update employee contact information, more than 40% either don't capture every trip or are unsure, and almost 75% rely on the same booking tool to track employee location. The article argues finance leaders should coordinate HR, security, and travel management to fulfill duty of care.

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    What's Blocking AP Invoice Automation in Financial Services, Insurance, and Real Estate?

    The article examines barriers to adopting AP invoice automation in the financial services, insurance, and real estate (FIRE) industries. These sectors face common challenges including compliance, disruptive technology, mobile work, and fraud. Automating AP invoice processes can help businesses adapt, streamline operations, and free up capital. However, fear of change, presumed lack of IT expertise, fear of job loss, and security concerns hinder adoption. The article cites AMI-Partners research showing automation helps accounting/finance employees reduce invoice processing time by 16%.