Spend Compliance Challenges for Utility and Energy Companies

An SAP Concur blog post notes that utility and energy companies must comply with municipal, state, and federal regulations, including those of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), yet many still rely on multiple outdated, on-premises legacy financial systems to maintain and audit employee spend data. This makes it hard to see how money is spent and by whom, review and control spend before it happens, enforce compliance with spend policies and financial regulations, spot data patterns hidden across channels or systems, and actively identify and mitigate spend fraud, waste, and abuse. The post recommends modernizing and automating systems to insert controls at the point of purchas…