Exploring the End-to-end Overview of SAP Concur Travel and Expense Solutions

Objective

After completing this lesson, you will be able to identify how SAP Concur solutions connect to end-to-end business processes.

Concur Travel & Expense in the Wider SAP Ecosystem

Review the following video to learn how an example customer, Best Run Bikes, uses Concur Travel & Expense within their SAP portfolio to bring out the best in their employees and their business.

One Integrated Solution

SAP Concur consolidates spending data from organizations' systems and hotel, airline, and other suppliers into a single, connected process for managing spend. Plus, the largest partner ecosystem in the industry means customers capture more spend in every category.

A laptop screen displays the SAP Concur interface. The top section shows a night sky image with star trails. Below, tabs labeled Create, Trips, Reports, Available Expenses, and Approvals show item counts. The Create button is highlighted. The main section features a Flight Search form with options for Round-trip, One-way, and Multi-city flights. Fields include Departure (Miami, FL), Arrival (Frankfurt Airport), and Dates (June 4 to August 12). To the right, Company Notes link to the Concur Training Toolkit. Below are sections for Reports and Available Expenses, listing items like Phoenix Trip Report and Business Meals - Meetings with dates and amounts.

Benefits of an Integrated Solution

Let's look at how an integrated solution can impact a business's bottom line.

  • Provide more global flight and hotel vendor choices to travelers by integrating data from the global distribution system (GDS) and travel management company (TMC) partners, as well as travel suppliers.
  • Ensure compliance with travel and spending policies.
  • Fulfill duty of care obligations by having an easy way to determine where employees are when there's a crisis or emergency,
  • Track and manage spending down to the last cent by integrating data from corporate credit card providers and receipts directly from key suppliers, so customers can pull in and classify individual charges.
A diagram illustrating the integration of Concur Expense, Concur Travel, Extended Services, and Network. Each component is represented by an icon connected to a central circle containing four labels: Concur Expense, Concur Travel, Extended Services, and Network. The icons depict a credit card, an airplane, a network, and a wrench

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