Strategies to Make Managing Travel Expenses Easier – SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense

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Strategies to Make Managing Travel Expenses Easier Neil Krefsky Sr. Director Product Marketing, SAP Cloud

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2014 Strategies to Make Managing Travel Expenses Easier [Wecast 12 Nov 2013] Business travel is not slowing down anytime soon. So how can you take more control of costs, make travel easier for employees, and ensure global corporate compliancy in 2014? Join SAP and GetThere for this live webcast. You’ll get key strategies and tangible takeaways for improving your end-to-end travel expense management at your company. You’ll discover: •How to reduce processing costs without compromising travel volume •What new capabilities matter most to road warriors while improving efficiencies •How to easily achieve better visibility on spend and global compliancy •What systems and tools you can integrate with your existing investment Presented by: Neil Krefsky -- Sr. Director, Solution Marketing at SAP Liz Cox -- Alliance Director at GetThere

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Strategies to Make Managing Travel

Expenses Easier

Neil Krefsky

Sr. Director Product Marketing,

SAP Cloud

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Agenda

Trends in Travel and Expense Management

How SAP helps companies automate end to end Travel and Expense Management

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Spend on Travel and Expense Management is growing Automation is the only sustainable way to control TEM costs

“The economic downturn may not be considered a trend; but, pressure on

cost has permeated corporate travel and spend management.”

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Travel expenses a top priority topic Increased focus on controlling travel spending

2nd largest

controllable

expense

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Biggest Challenges in the T&E management process Manual entry, inefficient processes, and compliance with travel policies

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Average Expense Report Processing Cost Manual processes nearly triple the cost of managing expense reports.

Process entirely manual

$20.18

Some automation

$14.89

Fully automated

$7.60

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Example of Manual and Inefficient Processes Still in Use

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Biggest Benefits of Automation Lower processing costs and better compliance rank as the top benefits

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Plan the trip

Trip approval

Book the trip

On Trip

Expense Report

Audit

Approval

Reimbursement

SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense An end-to-end solution to automate your travel and expense management

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Designed for CFOs who

need to better manage

expenses and cash flow

Designed for line

managers who need

to make the most

effective use of travel

budgets

Designed for travelers

who need to meet their

business goals

Designed for the way people work While helping control cost, facilitate compliance and increase efficiency

CFO Manager Travelers Operations

Designed for

auditors to

effectively audit

travel spends

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SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense People -centric UI and designed for the mobile workforce

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SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense A people -centric end-to-end solution for travel expense management

Planning

Request trip

Approve trip

Maintain team

budgets

Analyzing

Analyze travel spend

Plan travel budgets

Expensing

Capture expenses

Submit expenses

Audit expenses

Approve expenses

Reimburse expenses

Booking

Book trip

Manage itinerary

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SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense Customers

Our customers are in many industries

Travel & Logistics Manufacturing Automotive High Tech

Utilities Pharmaceuticals Professional Services

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UST Global: Saving Millions of Travel Expense with the SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense Solution

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SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense Integrates to external systems and your existing SAP ERP

- Receipt itemization - E-Invoice

Booking status update

Import of credit card feeds

Creation of itineraries

FI: Expense Report & Journal Entries - Reimbursement data - FI G/L postings

HCM: Expense Report

- Reimbursement data - Taxable amounts (payroll)

FI: Updates - Payment status update - Exchange rate update

CO: Master data

- Cost center, Project

- Internal Order, Sales Order

HCM: Master Data - Payment status update

SAP ERP

Cost Object: Master Data - Cost center, Project

SAP Cloud for Financials

FI: Expense Report & Journal Entries - Reimbursement data - FI G/L postings

Mileage calculation

Scanning and

OEM Partners OCR

SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense

Open to other ERP systems

Via Web Services, XML, etc.

Out-of the box

Out-of the box

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For more information visit www.sap.com/cloudfortravel

Solution overview

Benefits

ROI tool

Customer testimonials

Videos

Solution demos

Free trial registration

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Thank you

Neil Krefsky Senior Director

SAP Cloud Product Marketing

SAP 5301 Blue Lagoon Drive, Suite 790

Miami, FL 33126

E [email protected]

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A Partnership of Industry Leaders

Providing Expense / Enterprise Level Integration

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GetThere: Who We Are

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The GetThere business

95+15 15M 12.6M

$1.9B 81% 9.75Y

countries +

languages

active

users

annual

transactions

annual

customer savings

average

online adoption

average

customer tenure

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Managing Travel for Top Companies

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SAP + GetThere = Providing Unique Value

• Partnership created in 2008

• Collaborative relationship providing customers with direct contact with both

providers

• Offers a global online travel and expense solution with unique enterprise

integration capability

• Supports both Travel Management (OnPremise) and Cloud for Travel &

Expense (OnDemand) platforms GLOBALLY

• 11 integrated customers and 9 more in implementation phase representing:

15 diverse industries in the U.S. and Europe

Organizations with anywhere from 1,000 to 2.2 million employees

Customer annual revenues from $5B to $466B

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T&E Integration Benefits to key Stakeholders Best-in-Class Partnerships

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Finance &

Accounting

Automation

Managed payment cycles and

increased spend on corporate

card

Access to accurate data for

budgeting, forecasting, and

enterprise financial analyses

Enjoys:

Travelers

Operations

Procurement

Finance &

Accounting

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T&E Integration Benefits to key Stakeholders Best-in-Class Partnerships

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Finance &

Accounting

Travelers

Operations

Procurement

Finance &

Accounting

Dynamic messaging and

configurable policy

Pre-populated expense reports

Reporting

Ongoing policy refreshes

Benefits from:

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T&E Integration Benefits to key Stakeholders Best-in-Class Partnerships

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Finance &

Accounting

Travelers

Operations

Procurement

Finance &

Accounting

Spend tracking on preferred

suppliers

Confirmation as to whether

those suppliers are delivering

contracted discounts

Enjoys:

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Finance &

Accounting

Travelers

Operations

Procurement

Finance &

Accounting

Pre-populated expense reports

Ease of use of corporate card

Consistent messaging clarifying

policy

Consistent policy application

Benefit from:

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Let’s Take a Look…

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• User Interface

• Traveler Reviews

• New Travel Policy Engine

• Service Model

• Virtual Meetings Scheduling

• Mobile Access

Differentiating Features

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• Visit www.getthere.com/expense

• Connect with us

• Email me: [email protected]

For more info

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THANK YOU

Q & A

Resources to learn more:

• Watch SAP Cloud for Travel and Expense demos

• Visit us at www.sap.com/cloudfortravel

• Connect with us:

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