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May 4Mon
  1. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur: Maintaining Spend Management Continuity During ERP Transformations

    SAP Concur published a blog discussing challenges higher education institutions face during ERP migrations, emphasizing that spend management should not be disrupted. The article notes that ERP transformations impact the entire campus, including finance, operations, and HR. SAP Concur claims its solution integrates with various ERPs, helping institutions maintain consistent travel, expense, and invoice processes during system changes.

Jan 22Thu
Jan 14Tue
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    The Hidden Costs of Outdated T&E Systems in Higher Education — Why Digital Transformation is the Ke…

    An SAP Concur article notes that higher education institutions often face inefficiencies and compliance risks due to outdated T&E systems. A survey shows that 67% of U.S. business travelers in higher education feel business travel is key to career advancement, and 94% have experienced travel cutbacks. Modern T&E solutions can streamline processes, reduce costs, and improve faculty and staff experience.

Aug 26Mon
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    SAP Concur Survey: Higher Education Travel Faces Flexibility and Budget Pressures

    SAP Concur's Global Business Travel Survey, commissioned through Wakefield Research and now in its sixth year, focused specifically on higher education for the first time. The global survey covered 3,750 business travelers in 24 markets. Among higher education respondents, 67% of U.S. business travelers consider business travel essential for career growth; 94% experienced cutbacks in travel flexibility over the past year, with 34% reporting cuts to authorizing remote work during personal travel and 21% noting restrictions on adding personal travel to business trips; 85% were forced to take unanticipated actions due to unexpected circumstances in the past 12 months, including canceling or re…

Sep 12Tue
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    Four Tips for the Higher Education Back Office as They Head Back to School

    SAP Concur hosted a webinar with Michigan State University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and University of California San Diego, offering four tips for higher education travel management: simplify reporting and audit, support increased research travel, reduce traveler frustration and improve compliance, and make travel information easily accessible.

Aug 10Thu
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    SAP Concur: Community-Centric Approach to Financial Efficiency in Higher Education

    SAP Concur published a blog on strategies for financial efficiency in higher education. Approximately 700 schools already benefit from its solutions. The article notes that higher education faces stability challenges and staffing shortages, with 43% of back-office teams managing three or more new responsibilities due to staff shortages. SAP Concur helps institutions optimize AP, travel operations, and policy compliance through communities like CHELF and CHEAB and ERP solutions.

Aug 16Tue
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    Automated Spend Management for Higher Education and K12 Schools

    An SAP Concur blog post notes that higher education institutions and K12 schools must comply with a variety of government laws, regulations, and oversight, yet many have multiple outdated, on-premises legacy finance systems containing faculty, staff, and sometimes student spending data. Before this data can be used, it often must be manually combined in a spreadsheet, making it hard for schools to see how money is spent and by whom, review and control spend before it happens, enforce spend policy compliance, spot data patterns hidden across channels or systems, and actively identify and mitigate spend fraud, abuse, and waste. The post recommends modernizing and automating systems to insert…

Jun 29Wed
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    Going from Excellent to Astounding in Higher Education Tech: Penn State University and Huron

    An SAP Concur podcast conversation highlights Penn State University's collaboration with Huron to innovatively use Concur Request to manage corporate and P-Card spend, enabling pre-approval before expenses are incurred. Penn State University has been a pioneer in expense management technology since the 1980s and reconnected with Huron through the SAP Concur higher education community. Outcomes include reducing over 500 expense GL accounts to under 200, simplifying ERP migration, and reducing training needs for new tools because users were already familiar with the SAP Concur platform.

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    Four Best Practices for Travel Return at Higher Education Institutions

    SAP Concur blog outlines four best practices for higher education institutions returning to travel: 1) Create a cross-campus travel working group including risk management, finance, and academic stakeholders; 2) Consider mandating TMC use for itinerary transparency, supplier discounts, and compliance visibility; 3) Develop new travel approval guidelines including pre-trip approval and COVID-19 risk considerations; 4) Improve back-office efficiency using Concur Invoice to automate invoice processing and eliminate data silos.

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    How Higher Education Institutions Can Maximize American Rescue Plan Act Funding

    A SAP Concur blog post notes the pandemic exposed weaknesses in higher education institutions' legacy systems, and the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act provides funding to upgrade administrative functions. It says CARES Act funding must be used by December 31, 2021, while the deadline for ARP Act funds is December 31, 2024. It recommends prioritizing student financial aid and campus safety while also improving the systems back-office teams use. It also recommends following the 'paper' trail by shifting from paper to digital documentation for easier proof of funding use, and moving to the cloud, arguing cloud migration is a way to work more efficiently and securely and maximize funding.

  4. SAP Concur Blog

    3 Ways Technology Drives More Effective Back Offices in Higher Ed

    SAP Concur partnered with Education Dive to explore how universities use technology to improve back-office efficiency. The article notes that the pandemic has tightened budgets, prompting universities to turn to technology to cut costs. Three benefits include: employees empowered to work efficiently from anywhere, compliance supported, and improved cash flow. Savings from automating expense, travel, and invoice processes go beyond initial technology costs.

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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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    GW University Uses SAP Concur to Make Travel Safer and Easier for Students and Faculty Abroad

    The George Washington University (GW) operates in more than 100 countries, creating a large volume of student and faculty travel and expense management. Manual reimbursement processes and siloed data previously made it hard for security teams to track travelers. After adopting SAP Concur solutions, students and faculty can photograph receipts and auto-generate expense reports, improving finance approval efficiency; the security team uses Concur Locate to consolidate location data, proactively monitor risks, and send notifications to affected individuals.

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    A Master Class in Sales Tax Recovery for Higher Education

    A SAP Concur blog post introduces Taxback International's sales tax recovery service for higher education institutions. Many universities and colleges leave hundreds of thousands of dollars on the table each year by not fully utilizing sales tax exemptions. Taxback International leveraged its VAT recovery experience, internal audit expertise, and integrations with SAP Concur solutions to develop a sales tax recovery service. In a pilot, a large university recovered $150,000 in sales taxes without expending resources or staff time. Taxback also provided reporting data to help the university improve its front-end processes.

  9. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Survey: Fraud Risk Rising in Government and Higher Ed Finances

    A survey by SAP Concur and Kelton Global of 313 financial decision makers in state, city, and local government and higher education found that 59% believe their financial tools and systems are error-prone, and 68% report making decisions without full visibility into necessary information. Two-thirds admit fraud, waste, and abuse are current challenges, more than one in four say their vulnerability to fraud risk increased in the past year, and about one-third report an increase in inaccurate expense reports and invoices. About one-quarter unintentionally reported incorrect budget data due to inaccuracies.

  10. SAP Concur Blog

    Duty of Care and Dynamic Spend Management in Higher Education Travel Programs

    A SAP Concur blog post discusses how colleges and universities can establish travel programs with strong duty of care principles. It reviews the historical evolution of duty of care, including the impact of the UK's Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act of 2007. Four optimization areas are proposed: establishing travel approval and booking processes, optimizing traveler communication, encouraging campus-wide engagement, and using technology to mitigate foreseeable risk. SAP Concur has moved to providing all itinerary services from Concur Request, Concur Travel, Concur TripIt, and Concur TripLink for outside bookings via API automation to university-based DOC providers.

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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…

  13. SAP Concur Blog

    3 Major Benefits of Using a Mobile App for Mileage Reporting in Higher Education

    The SAP Concur blog notes that admissions, athletic recruiting, and advancement staff at higher education institutions often drive to recruit students and fundraise, and manual mileage tracking leads to inaccurate data, fraud, and expense errors. It cites three benefits of mobile apps: GPS-accurate distance tracking saves money, automated tracking saves time, and it supports policy compliance. It references National Center for Education Statistics data projecting a 20% enrollment increase for college students older than 25 by 2023.

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    SAP Concur: AP Automation and Cost Control in Higher Education

    A SAP Concur blog post discusses accounts payable challenges facing higher education institutions during the pandemic: declining enrollments, student refunds, campus closures, and paper invoice backlogs from remote work. It cites an IDC white paper reporting that organizations using Concur Invoice saw average annual benefits of $662,700 ($3,258 per 1,000 invoices) and a three-year ROI of 634%.

  15. SAP Concur Blog

    Dynamic Spend Management Practices in Higher Education: Three Considerations for Returning to Trave…

    SAP Concur published a blog post discussing how higher education institutions can manage spend as they return to travel post-pandemic. The article notes that the pandemic forced institutions to re-evaluate travel and expense programs and accelerated the deployment of spend management technology. It offers three recommendations: increase visibility of travel requests and needs; update policy planning and program deployment; and plan for the future. Citing the 2021 Global Business Traveler Report, 96% of respondents are willing to travel for business in the next 12 months, 52% expect the ability to choose direct flights, and 41% want to stay in four- to five-star hotels.

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    Community and Innovation in Higher Education Tech: SAP Concur Podcast with Huron about Penn State U…

    A SAP Concur podcast features a conversation with Huron Consulting Group about Penn State University's transformation story in optimizing spend management and ERP systems. Penn State, a long-time SAP Concur higher education customer, confirmed Huron as a partner through the Concur Higher Education Leadership Forum (CHELF). Huron helped automate the Concur Request module to manage P-Card expenses, integrate procurement charges into Concur, and optimize workflows. The project also included migrating to SAP S/4HANA ERP and a new Concur instance, reducing over 500 expense GL accounts to fewer than 200 using sub-lists. Concur also developed an API to daily update Request user and approver checkb…

  17. SAP Concur Blog

    SAP Concur Advises Higher Ed to Automate Spend Management to Prevent Misspending

    SAP Concur published an article noting that faculty and staff at colleges and universities are spending more of their institution's money across more spend categories and using more payment methods than ever before. For finance departments still struggling with manual processes, accurately tracking spending is challenging. The article recommends that institutions adopt modern spend management solutions to increase visibility, prevent duplicate payments, flag unusual transactions, and take advantage of discounted supplier rates. It also outlines critical steps such as automating all spending, embracing an open strategy, strategically managing spending, and reviewing spending.

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    College and University Back Offices Face Toughest AP Test Yet

    A SAP Concur blog post cites a Wakefield Research survey of 350 higher education finance and administration staff, highlighting remote-work software gaps, budget tightening, and compliance pressure at colleges and universities during the pandemic. Only 16% of staff can continue working remotely without hurting department productivity; 60% are prepared to reduce pay or cut staff to offset budget shortfalls; and 71% are concerned about complying with regulations due to sustained remote work. 99% of decision-makers agreed certain investments must be made, and 84% want funding for technology that integrates systems, devices, and spend data.

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    SAP Concur: Six Benefits of Automating AP and T&E for Small Universities

    A SAP Concur blog says smaller universities and community colleges often waste time and resources on manual processes and lack spend visibility. It lists six benefits of automating AP, travel, and expense: eliminating paper, faster reimbursement, actionable data, adoption and compliance, traveler safety, and reduced fraud and waste. It cites a Kelton study saying manual-system institutions spend over five extra hours per expense report and over two extra hours per invoice, and a 2018 ACFE survey saying 18% of higher-ed fraud comes from expense reimbursement schemes.