Travel Management Options No Matter How Big (or Small) Your Needs May Be

Businesses want travel spending to match their budgets and policies. They also need to know where travelers are going, whether they’re safe, and what they’re spending. And everyone – from the sales rep to the owner – wants the process to be simpler. Because they have better things to do and because, with many unknowns in today’s business environment, companies must be ready for change.

Whether your sales team drives to every customer in the region or jets from continent to continent, SAP® Concur® offers multiple solutions, apps, and plans that can fit your needs, be they large or small. Because nobody knows travel and spending better.

Getting Your Business Where it Needs to Go

Our new eBook, Better Ways from A to B, examines five areas of SAP Concur solutions that can make travel simpler and more efficient at your business.

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Companies need travel to get and stay ahead, but just because it’s important doesn’t mean it – and its costs – must be difficult to plan and track. Let’s consider five areas where our solutions help make each trip smoother for a company and its travelers

Booking Travel

Shopping for flights, car rentals, hotels, and other parts of a trip can consume time and inflict frustration. Each choice affects budgets, safety, and compliance.

Concur Travel is our booking solution, guiding travelers to compliant options, preferred vendors, and sustainable choices, while reminding them of policies as they go. Add Concur Request to handles trip preapprovals so you know the facts before money is spent, and use Concur TripLink to let travelers book directly with suppliers without the company losing sight of bookings and costs.

Experiencing Travel

Travel means being on the go, and a travel solution should be just as mobile. The SAP Concur mobile app makes that happen and is a tool that enables others as well.

With the TripIt Pro, travelers can organize trip information, receive advisories of shifting itineraries, track rewards points, and gauge the environmental impact of trips. As a Concur Expense user, your employees can snap pictures of receipts and send the information directly to an expense report – easing paperwork and giving you better spending visibility. The SAP Concur App Center is a rich source of options, with easy integrations of apps like Uber and Lyft.

Ensuring Traveler Safety

Keeping team members safe is the responsibility of your business and top of mind for employees, too. TripIt Pro serves as an information hub by providing health and safety details for destinations including pollution, crime, police presence, political unrest, and risks for women and LGBTQ employees. In addition, the SAP Concur App Center provides health, safety, and communications tools to keep travelers informed and support.

Reporting and Analyzing Travel

Knowing where travel dollars went and are going is essential, of course, but it’s just a start. But how about tools that help determine ROI, so that you can better justify travel?

Our Intelligence solution provides ready-made reports and dashboards to analyze your travel and expense data, identify savings, and establish the ROI. Budget serves a similar role, giving managers a clear and timely view of spending so they can readily make adjustments. And expert, human assistance is available through Consultative Intelligence, with specialists designing reports to match your exact needs.

Tracking Those Miles

Few areas of travel management – and spending – are more confounding than mileage. It’s often inaccurate, and employees dislike tracking it but also count on being reimbursed. Within Concur Expense, employees can insert the beginning and ending points of trips and have the math done for their route. Even easier, the Drive app automatically tracks trips for travelers using GPS, taking human error – or even fraud – out of the equation.

More on the Better Ways from A to B

Read the eBook and learn more about solutions from SAP Concur that make managing travel and travel spending easier for your business. It includes a quick checklist of solutions, services, and tools to fit your needs and make you ready for the future.