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SAP Concur benefits people and processes

Most important functional components

05. May 2022

8 Minutes

Highly Flexible and Transparent: Travel Expense Management with SAP Concur

Freedom of movement and convenience when traveling, efficiency and transparency on the back end: SAP® Concur® benefits people and processes alike in the modern enterprise. Starting with the request, through approval and planning, to booking and settlement, the integrated platform digitizes and connects all processes around the end-to-end management of business travel. The intelligent analysis and evaluation of expenses ensures maximum transparency. Thanks to a highly flexible system architecture, SAP Concur can adapt to any deployment environment as needed. KPS supports you in optimally exploiting the platform’s transformative potential.

The most important points of the blog

The benefits of SAP Concur

The benefits of SAP Concur

Concure Request

Concur Request is the module that manages the request and travel approval process.

Concur Travel

Concur Travel is the tool for centralized management of all business travel bookings.

TripLink

TripLink provides the connection to external companies such as Airbnb, Uber and Sixt.

Concur Expense

Concur Expense is at the heart of the platform and manages all expensed associated with business travel.

Intelligence

Intelligence generates the added value that SAP Concur provides for competitive business development.

The App Center

The App Center is the collection point for partner and third-party applications.

Concur Request

Concur Request

Concur Request is the module that manages the request and travel approval process. Even before a binding booking is made, this ensures that a business trip is carried out in compliance with guidelines and that no avoidable costs are incurred.

Concur Travel

Concur Travel

Concur Travel is the tool for centralized management of all business travel bookings. Having all data continuously in view means more convenience for travelers and more security and control for their colleagues on the back end.

TripLink

TripLink provides the connection to external companies such as Airbnb, Uber or Sixt. Travelers can make their bookings with partners as they normally would, and the tool transfers all booking data into the Concur system.

Concur Expense

Concur Expense

Concur Expense is at the heart of the platform and manages all expenses associated with business travel. The tool captures expenses from all sources and assigns them to the correct cost centers. To submit the data to the system, business travelers can simply photograph their receipts on the go. Concur Expense provides back-end staff with analytics that enable detailed reporting.

Intelligence

Intelligence

Intelligence generates the added value that SAP Concur provides for competitive business development. The tool correlates travel, expense, billing, and credit card data and increases the quality and reliability of expense management through combined analytics. The intelligent analyses enable forward-looking optimization of business processes.

The App Center

The App Center

The App Center is the collection point for partner and third-party applications that make travel more relaxed and convenient.

Whitepaper: SAP Concur benefits people and processes

Whitepaper: SAP Concur benefits people and processes

In this whitepaper you will learn about the benefits of SAP Concur and mistakes you should avoid. It includes information about the most important functional and customisable components and how your company can benefit from it.

SAP Concur benefits people and processes

Digital Transformation with SAP Concur

Digital Transformation with SAP Concur

SAP Concur owes its superior performance to its precisely tuned end-to-end functionality and ability to interact with the ERP system.

Organizations benefit from a resilient solution that

  • saves time and money
  • conserves resources
  • improves employee satisfaction
  • increases process efficiency
  • and creates the highest level of transparency with intelligent features.

The automation of travel expense management with SAP Concur is one of the most effective measures of digital transformation in future-oriented companies. Increased productivity, improved compliance and a comprehensive overview of all relevant business processes are effects of expense management that ensures the highest possible stability in competition.

Innovative and globally recognized: The power of SAP Concur

SAP Concur is the global leader in expense management. Over 55.4 million business travelers from more than 43,000 companies use the system and benefit from its comprehensive features. The analysts of Gartner, but also the reviews on the peer-to-peer platform g2 prove the outstanding position in the international competition.

² Whitepaper “Gartner Market Guide”
³ g2.com

Individual adaption to the target environment

Individual adaption to the target environment

To take full advantage of its capabilities, companies need to optimally integrate SAP Concur into their IT infrastructure. However, it is precisely the flexibility of the system that makes this task particularly complex. The individual adaptation to the target environment requires professional know-how and experience.

The experts at KPS can draw on the profound technical and transformation expertise that enables a precisely tailored implementation of SAP Concur in the shortest possible time. Instant Transformation is an innovative process that combines best practices and context-dependent customizing to provide individual solutions.

Questions? Feel free to contact us!

Andreas Pagh Andersen

Associate Partner / Head of SAP Concur