SAP Concur Blog Introduces T&E Approval Anti-Fraud Configuration

On October 20, 2026, the SAP Concur blog published a post introducing how to restructure the travel and expense (T&E) approval process to identify fraud, citing G2 user feedback and the Merck case. The article states that placing Intelligent Audit before manager approval can improve reimbursement speed and reduce manual missed detections. The article's data states that 42% of organizations using automated expense audit tools reported detecting fraud that manual review completely missed, while the detection rate in purely manual environments was only 9%. Regarding the Merck case, it deployed the Concur solution in more than 75 countries and issued 40,000 payment cards within 10 months. Currently this content is a blog-level experience introduction and does not involve specific policies or product launches.