In our most recent SMB user group, pre-sales solution expert Ryan Strous, ran a short 10min session called "SAP Concur reports to help you optimise spend management'. You can view the session recording HERE. What are your favourite SAP Concur reports and why?

Opteon Property Group move to a single source of truth for invoice and expense management: Enabling data-driven business decisions with visibility of spend and cash flow control. Opteon’s overarching goal was to have one consolidated platform with visibility across their entire network and the capability of capturing all information in a central place thus aligning to Opteon’s vision of being powered by innovation, data intelligence and technology.

Honda New Zealand transforms spend management with invoice and expense automation: For Honda NZ, the business drivers for moving to an automated spend management solution were two-fold; a company-wide directive to improve sustainability, and a desire to address process inefficiencies. Both drivers supported the move to a paperless, automated spend management platform.

The SAP Concur Finance in the New World of Work study takes a look at the expectations of employees across Asia Pacific for finance and administrative processes to better support new ways of digital work and life, including less time spent and hassle around expense claims, more flexible business travel arrangements, and better support for remote working. There wer 300 Australian respondents.

As organisations adjust their strategic plans for a world that has changed since COVID-19, the focus will be on reducing costs and optimising efficiency. Expenditure is a major area that is spread diversely across every function of a business. This often leaves the finance team struggling to get visibility into every dollar that’s being spent, which in turn impacts business efficiency. By gaining a single, real-time view of spend across the organisation, businesses are much better placed to identify and address unnecessary costs, as well as find opportunities to optimise business operations.

A list of quick hacks to the most common reporting questions. Do you have a frequently asked question about managing a remote workforce, spend control, compliance or customisation queries? Check out this new reporting guide.

Most companies had to pivot so quickly to respond to state and local government work-from-home mandates, very few had a chance to think through how the change would impact their current expense policy. Will employees be reimbursed for broadband, Internet expense, or hotspots? What about office furniture, software updates, or the coffee and bottled water they used to get for free? Although the answers will be different for every company, one thing is certain: creating and publishing a “Business Continuity/Work from Home” expense policy will reduce confusion for employees, their managers, and your finance staff during a time when everything is challenging enough already. We can help you create a Remote Employee Expense Policy that is easy for employees to understand and follow, while also being comprehensive enough to ensure compliance and minimise corporate risk.

Business continuity and disaster planning have recently gained more importance than ever. Previously, that meant planning ahead for network outages that could leave employees unable to access work-critical applications, or boosting security measures to prevent cyberattacks. In most cases, businesses were preparing for a single isolated incident that would last for a limited amount of time.