T&E

Frequent visitors to Payables Place will know that the complex category of business travel has increasingly become a bigger line-item at the average enterprise. In fact, the current business travel industry has not seen this level of growth since long before the economic downturn of last decade. As we move into a new year, what [...]

In the procurement and supply management world, buzzwords come and go every year. Some of these fresh happenings represent a true change in the business world, while others fizzle out as their corresponding strategies / solutions / technologies fail to make an impact. Few advances have made themselves as welcome in the business arena like [...]

Welcome to the second article in a five-part series that will focus on how procurement, finance, and other professionals effectively build a “compliance management” checklist that addresses multiple avenues of spend management and the compliance ramifications behind strategic spend categories. The first four articles will highlight the dozen items that should be included in an [...]

In part 1 of this article, I covered the annual Concur Fusion event and some of the announcements made around the new Concur App Center, Open Booking and The Perfect Trip Fund. Today’s piece will continue to highlight some of new capabilities that Concur is looking to deliver to its customers including updates around Concur’s [...]

Last week, I had the opportunity to attend Concurs annual event in Las Vegas, Fusion 2013. An event that has become a focal point for the corporate travel industry involved more than 2,000 attendees and a growing number of partners including travel suppliers, travel technology providers and travel management companies. Today’s article is going to [...]