You've probably found that Travel and Expense purchases are sometimes not scrutinized as carefully as others. For many organizations, that's meant high costs, lots of maverick spending, poor visibility, and frequent complaints about slow reimbursement.This spending activity cries out for a solution that can deliver the savings and efficiencies that are demanded of procurement departments across every organization today.
Ariba Travel and Expense is that solution.
Combining Technology and Best Practices
Ariba Travel and Expense helps you integrate travel purchases with the rest of your procurement processes so that they can be effectively tracked and managed. You can now manage travel and expense procurement using a single interface - the same interface you use to manage all other spend categories. Now you can:
- Drive compliance with corporate travel policies
- Increase accuracy of expense data
- Strengthen your ability to negotiate favorable rates
- Update employee processes for purchasing travel and booking lodging
- Improve audit and regulatory reporting processes
- Manage supplier relationships better
- Perform more detailed travel commodity reporting
- Automate and manage the travel authorization process
- Facilitate total reconciliation for end users and card managers in all spend categories
Impressive Results
Using Ariba Travel and Expense to follow best practices, corporate managers 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.
Best of all, Ariba’s cloud-based solution delivery makes it easy to seamlessly integrate your T&E solution with a complete commerce management suite, including solutions for spend visibility, sourcing, contract management, procure-to-pay, supplier management, and more. Learn more.
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