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  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: Machine Learning in Travel and Expense

    A SAP Concur blog post discusses AI and machine learning in travel and expense. It cites Frank Chen, Sundar Pichai, and Forrester analyst J.P. Gownder, suggesting AI and machine learning could be the next big wave in computing. SAP's portfolio of intelligent applications is called Leonardo Machine Learning. Concur already uses machine learning and related data science algorithms to simplify travel and expense, such as using OCR and machine learning to extract total amount, date, currency, and expense type from receipt images and create expense entries. Concur Expense for Outlook (beta) can pre-populate expense entries from electronic receipts received via email. Other applications include h…

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    The Value of Automating Your AP Process

    A SAP Concur blog post discusses the value of automating the accounts payable (AP) process. Citing an AMI-Partners survey of 420 companies across five countries, it finds that automating invoicing delivers significant benefits: savings of more than $34,000 annually ($1,100 for every 100 invoices processed), a 16% reduction in time spent on invoice management, 54% of companies reporting improved analytics, and 46% finding increased employee satisfaction. The article emphasizes that AP solutions should go beyond automation to improve underlying processes and support mobile access.

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    SAP Concur: How to Find Wins for Both Finance and Employees

    SAP Concur's blog argues that expense processes need not trade off finance efficiency against employee experience. Mobile receipt photo submission, automated policy prompts, mobile approvals, and a unified interface can speed reimbursement, improve compliance, and reduce finance workload. Research suggests automation can reduce the review-to-reimbursement period by up to 80%.

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    SAP Concur Helps U.S. Federal Government Prevent Travel Voucher Fraud

    A SAP Concur blog post highlights that each fraud instance in the U.S. federal government costs an average of $194K. It notes that agencies have additional travel policies beyond the Federal Travel Regulations, which are difficult to communicate to field offices, leading to errors on travel vouchers. SAP Concur offers enhanced services where experts audit travel documents before final payment approval, helping to avoid embarrassing news coverage and congressional audits.

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    New Finance Leader 90-Day Action Plan

    A SAP Concur blog post provides a 90-day action plan for new finance leaders, divided into three months: month one focuses on information gathering and learning, month two on evaluating learnings and identifying improvement opportunities, and month three on collaborating and creating a plan. The article emphasizes building relationships, understanding systems and data, and using technology to optimize expense and accounts payable processes.

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    Employee Needs Have Changed. Has Your Travel and Expense Program?

    SAP Concur notes that the pandemic shifted employee travel and spending behavior, such as moving from hotels to apartments or vacation rentals and extending business trips with personal vacation. These changes create significant gaps between organizations' travel and expense (T&E) programs and employees' real-life needs. The article recommends gathering and measuring employee sentiment data, combining it with operational data, assessing how policies affect sentiment, and using the data to improve T&E programs, which can enhance compliance, cost efficiency, and duty of care.

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    SAP Concur and Oversight Release 2021 Spend Insights Report

    SAP Concur and Oversight released the "2021 Spend Insights Report" analyzing 2021 spending to inform 2022. The report shows significant rises in expense violations and exceptions: duplicate mileage submissions rose 2,127% from Q3 to Q4, missing receipt affidavits rose 306% over the year, excessive personal expenses rose nearly 22%, and excessive missing receipts rose almost 60%.

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    SAP Concur Mobile Adds On-Device Machine Learning for Receipt Capture

    SAP Concur introduced a new algorithm in the latest Concur Mobile release that predicts the total amount directly from a receipt image, running on device rather than relying first on OCR text extraction. Trained on millions of receipt images, it handles printed and handwritten totals, notably U.S. meal receipts with handwritten tips. SAP Concur says it holds the largest T&E dataset, citing IDC for more than 51% T&E market share, and processed over $115 billion in customer expenses in Q3 2018. The standalone ExpenseIt Pro app was sunset on December 31, 2018, with ExpenseIt now available inside the SAP Concur mobile app.

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    Use These Tips to Make it Easier to Organize Receipts

    A SAP Concur blog post notes that receipt management is a common pain point for business travelers, with receipts easily lost and causing reimbursement issues. It recommends reducing paper receipts and fraud risk with eReceipts, mandating corporate card use to reduce receipt volume and increase visibility, and using the SAP Concur mobile app to photograph paper receipts for automatic upload. The post also notes that T&E spending is about 10-12% of a typical company budget, businesses lose 5% of revenue to fraud annually, and 83% of fraud cases involve asset misappropriation.

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    SAP Concur: Systematically Improving Employee Experience with Technology

    A SAP Concur blog post says that over the past two years corporate policies and processes have been scrutinized as revenue, spending, workplaces and travel shifted, and that employee experience deserves ongoing attention. It cites data that recent surveys find 25% to 40% of workers might quit within a year, while 78% told partner Accenture their employer is responsible for helping increase job satisfaction and well-being. The post describes several SAP Concur solutions: ExpenseIt for photographing and auto-categorizing receipts, Concur Request for pre-approval, Concur Detect for automated data review, Intelligent Audit using AI to find non-compliant spending, Concur Invoice for invoice auto…

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    How State and Local Governments Can Transform Spend Management with Cloud SaaS

    The article notes that state and local governments face unique challenges modernizing legacy IT systems, including tight and scrutinized budgets, heightened citizen and employee expectations, and limited manpower, so innovation may not be a priority for every agency. Yet CIOs are recognizing the benefits of cloud-based SaaS spend management: significantly reduced upfront investment versus building expensive in-house systems, which are costly to maintain and often become antiquated within a few years. SaaS solutions can be quickly implemented and are continuously updated by third parties. With tighter budgets, governments need high transparency and control over taxpayer resources, and employ…

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    SAP Concur Shares Three Key Things Needed for PPP Forgiveness

    SAP Concur published an article outlining three key categories of documentation needed for Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan forgiveness: payroll expense documents, headcount records, and non-payroll expense support. The article advises businesses to seek help from accountants and consult the Treasury Department website. Application requirements depend on loan size and business nature, but documentation must be kept available even if not required for submission.

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    SAP Concur Named 2019 Top-Rated Expense Management Software by TrustRadius

    SAP Concur announced that Concur Expense has been named a 2019 Top Rated Expense Management Software by TrustRadius. The award is based entirely on customer feedback, with about 400,000 B2B technology buyers using over 208,000 verified reviews on TrustRadius each month. Reviews highlight features like mobile receipt capture, automated workflows, auto-populated expense reports, and tools to enforce company finance policies.

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    What Every CPO Should Know About Employee Spend

    An SAP Concur blog post notes that the pandemic accelerated finance digital transformation and significantly shifted employee spending patterns. In 2020, SAP Concur customers saw a 58% increase in the 'Other' expense category, signaling reduced spend visibility. The article advises CPOs to address three questions: whether travel and expense data are connected, which channels employees use to spend company funds, and how to capture rogue spend outside traditional travel channels. It stresses that procurement executives should not focus solely on cost reduction when renegotiating travel supplier agreements, but must ensure key suppliers are adequately compensated for traveler health efforts.

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    SAP Concur: How Public Sector IT Can Transform Government with AP and Expense Automation

    SAP Concur addresses public sector IT leaders with talking points for modern AP and expense management software: improving spend transparency and accountability, planning budgets on real data, improving employee experience and retention, and eliminating errors and fraud. It suggests extending AP automation to state and local governments.

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    Automating Accounts Payable to Redirect Healthcare Spend to Care

    The article says healthcare organizations still rely on manual processes, disconnected systems and spreadsheets for accounts payable, limiting visibility into invoices, suppliers and spending. Citing Ardent Partners' Accounts Payable 2026 report, it identifies automation, data management, real-time compliance, fraud prevention and closer AP-treasury alignment as major 2026 forces. An IOFM report found best-in-class AP teams operate at 77% lower invoice-processing costs, process more than twice as many invoices per employee, and need correction on only 7% of transactions.

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    4 Insights for CFOs as Travel Costs Emerge

    SAP Concur blog gathers expert panel insights on managing travel costs. 96% of employees are willing to travel in the next 12 months. 45% feel unable to develop business connections completely virtually. 89% will add personal vacation time to business trips in the next 12 months. 40% would prefer to sit next to a crying toddler rather than relinquish control over how they travel. Experts recommend AI/ML auditing and corporate card programs.

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    A Quick Win for CIOs in Financial Transformation

    SAP Concur blog notes that CIOs can achieve a quick win by modernizing travel and expense systems, opening the door to more complex cloud transformation in finance. 66% of senior executives believe a strong IT-finance partnership enables agility. An IDC report found roughly 80% of AP managers' time is spent on lower-level tasks. 53% of respondents manage different spending types with separate applications. An ACFE report says it takes on average 14 months to detect a fraud scheme.

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    IDC Report: Automating AP Management Offers Greater Visibility and Cost Savings

    SAP Concur published an article citing an IDC study of several businesses, finding that companies deploying Concur Invoice saw multiple benefits: greater visibility into business performance driving smarter decisions; 505% return on investment over five years; a five-month payback period; 99% of employees using a cloud-based system complied with company procurement policy; and productivity increased an average of 11% due to mobile enablement. IDC said automating the invoice process not only improved efficiency and productivity but also provided big-picture data visibility and increased employee satisfaction.

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    SAP Concur Introduces Budget Tool to Integrate Spend Data

    SAP Concur published an article introducing Budget by SAP Concur. The tool brings together travel, expense, invoice, and budget data into a single solution, providing clear visibility into spend to enable better, timelier decisions. Users can view all budgets through intuitive dashboards, import budgets from ERP systems, and see spend before it occurs. The tool also supports near real-time viewing and approval of spend on mobile devices and one-click data export.

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    SAP Concur Launches Expense Management Solution ROI Calculator

    SAP Concur published an article introducing its Expense Management Solution ROI Calculator. Citing a 2022 Analysys Mason study, it states that small to mid-size businesses (1-999 employees) saved an average estimated $49K annually by implementing an automated travel and expense solution and saw positive ROI within eight months. Customer examples include Avocados From Mexico reducing expense input time by 50% and Bishop-Wisecarver cutting month-end close from 15 days to 3 days.

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    Is Disconnected Spend Data Costing You?

    A SAP Concur blog post discusses the problems caused by disconnected employee spend data. Employee spending (travel expenses, POs, non-PO invoices, p-cards, corporate cards, etc.) typically falls into the bottom 20% of overall spend yet involves the majority of vendors and department time. Data spread across multiple systems or paper-based processes leads to a lack of accurate and timely data, difficulty staying on top of payment due dates resulting in late fees, and limited insights to maximize working capital. The article recommends an integrated, cloud-based, single solution to connect all spend data for strategic decision-making.

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    2019 IRS Mileage Rate Increases to 58 Cents

    The IRS issued guidance on December 14, 2018, for the 2019 business mileage reimbursement rate, effective January 1, 2019. The rate increased from 54.5 to 58 cents per mile, a 6.4% increase and the highest in over 10 years. SAP Concur advises companies to use data analytics to assess impact, update reimbursement rates, and develop strategies to reduce waste and fraud, such as setting thresholds for personal vehicle use, adopting FAVR programs, or GPS mileage tracking.

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    Automate Invoice Processing to Improve Bottom Line and Business Growth

    A SAP Concur blog post states that cloud technologies are bringing world-class software solutions to small and midsize companies, and automating invoice processing can significantly improve efficiency, visibility, and scalability. According to AMI Partners, 82% of firms that have automated invoice processing are already using cloud solutions. A typical small to midsize business processes 450 invoices a month with a duplication rate of 1.29%, and labor costs typically make up 62% of total accounts payable costs. Automation can largely eliminate these labor costs, enabling intelligent matching of invoice line items with purchase orders, built-in approval policies, reduced duplicate invoices,…

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    SAP Concur Podcast with EY: Taking Experience Data Seriously Amidst the Great Reset

    In this SAP Concur podcast, Andrew Walker and EY consultant Crystal Schoenhals discuss the importance of employee experience data. They emphasize that companies should continuously collect feedback, not just annual surveys, and use it to drive policy changes. Employees expect to see action taken on their input; otherwise, they may leave. The conversation highlights the need for iterative, operationalized experience management.

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    Travel Management for SMBs: Spend Control That Belongs in the Budget

    A SAP Concur blog post aimed at SMBs argues the question is not how much a travel and expense management solution costs but how much it saves. Citing IDC MarketScape, it recommends moving from spreadsheets and manual expense reports to cloud-based T&E management software. The article stresses that employee safety is paramount: without visibility into itineraries and credit card spend, it is difficult to locate, reach, and if necessary retrieve employees, making duty of care hard to fulfill. Real-time T&E data viewable by category, vendor, cost center, team, and employee helps cut costs, spot savings, expose hidden spending, and strengthen supplier negotiations. Automation and analytics also…

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    Penn State University Leverages SAP Concur Experience to Improve IT Spend Management

    In an SAP Concur podcast conversation, Bennett Ulmer, Operations Analyst and Manager of Analysis and Audit for Penn State University, shared how he leveraged an already successful travel and expense program to improve central IT processes. As one of the longest-running SAP Concur customers for more than 17 years, Penn State University expanded pre-approval functionality from travel to corporate card programs through cross-departmental collaboration and trust. The program integrates expense data with the financial ERP system. Ulmer emphasized the importance of using existing systems rather than buying new tools in budget-constrained higher education environments, and advised including IT and…

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    4 Steps to Control Employee Spend Before It’s Too Late

    Part two of SAP Concur's blog series discusses how to prevent employee expense fraud by reviewing T&E policies, establishing prevention and detection processes, using reporting to monitor data, and comparing control benchmarks. ACFE's Global 2020 Study on Occupational Fraud shows companies with internal policy controls have lower fraud losses and quicker detection. The article recommends regularly updating T&E policies, clarifying acceptable expenses, and setting up automated audit rules.

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    SAP Concur: Optimizing T&E Management Can Improve Both Employee Satisfaction and Financial Control

    A SAP Concur blog post argues that by adopting modern travel and expense (T&E) management solutions, companies can cut costs while improving employee satisfaction. Citing Gallup and Gartner research, the article shows that exceptional employee experiences are linked to higher productivity, profitability, and retention. By automating processes, providing easy-to-use apps, and giving employees more choices, companies can achieve expense transparency, enhance policy compliance, and ultimately improve financial control.

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    Build Relationships in Your First 90 Days as Finance Leader

    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.

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    Creating a Healthy Balance of Work and Life Can Propel Your Business Forward

    A SAP Concur blog post by former Chief Revenue Officer Christal Bemont discusses how small business owners can balance work and life by automating financial processes. The post notes that automation eliminates tedious tasks, provides real-time spend visibility, and helps forecast the future. SAP Concur is sharing resources through National Small Business Week.