Travel and Expense Solutions

Businesses today are under increasing pressure to implement processes and solutions that deliver savings and efficiencies, across all departments. Many companies are starting to look beyond stand alone point solutions that focus exclusively on travel to solutions that allow management of spend in a more integrated, comprehensive way.

Business Needs
A combination of technology and best practices, these end-to-end solutions help companies integrate travel with the rest of their spend, so that it can be more effectively tracked and managed. From online and offline travel booking to expense reporting, these offerings enable companies to manage travel procurement using a single interface - the same interface used to manage procurement for all other categories.

• Limited ability to manage travel and reduce costs
• Often arcane processes for employees to purchase travel or book lodging
• Lack of procurement knowledge and travel industry expertise needed to generate savings
• Fragmented data hinders rate negotiations
• Difficulty ensuring travel policy compliance

Ariba Solutions
Ariba Travel and Expense is the first truly integrated solution for managing travel costs. It lets businesses combine travel with other spend categories and use a single system for managing everything from sourcing and procurement to invoicing, expense reimbursement, and analysis. Using the solution, companies can:

• Drive compliance with corporate travel policies and curb maverick purchasing
• Increase accuracy of expense data and improve audit and regulatory reporting processes
• Better manage supplier relationships
• Perform more detailed travel commodity reporting
• Automate and manage the purchase requisition and purchase order process
• Facilitate total reconciliation for end users and card managers in all spend categories
• Provide online supplier connectivity for all spend categories, including materials, services and products

Impressive Results
Using Ariba Travel and Expense to follow best practices, corporate travel professionals can move beyond managing routine transactions and engage in strategic activities that improve results, like evaluating new global and domestic sources of supply, managing existing relationships, negotiating optimal contracts, and analyzing spend at granular levels to drive better business decisions and bottom-line improvements.

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