Growth and Optimisation
Is Your Current Expense Solution a Future Expense?
Hybrid work, new payment types, and relentless cost pressure are exposing the cracks in stand-alone expense tools. Finance leaders tell us they need real-time insight, airtight compliance, and tech that scales with growth — yet many still juggle spreadsheets and siloed apps.
You as a finance leader should ask these three blunt questions:
- Will our expense system scale as fast as the business?
- Can it plug straight into ERP, CRM, and HR tech?
- Does it surface real-time insight to cut risk and boost compliance?
If you hesitated on any of the question, your “good-enough” platform might soon become an expensive bottleneck.
3 Quick Wins a Modern Platform Delivers
- Single, accurate view of spend - Why it matters? Dashboards put every claim and card swipe at your fingertips—no budget blind spots.
- Built-in card integration & security - Why it matters? Reconcile every payment type while meeting ISO 27001, SOC 1, and PCI standards.
- Provable ROI - Why it matters? Customers save AU $43 k–$54 k a year and reclaim 134–148 finance hours each week, with payback in ~7 months
Download to see exactly where those savings come from—and how to benchmark your own.
4 Warning Lights Your Current Tool Is Draining Value
- Limited integrations - Why it hurts? Expense data lives outside your ERP/CRM, blocking a single source of truth.
- Static reporting - Why it hurts? Without live analytics, risky spend hides until it’s too late.
- Manual card reconciliation - Why it hurts? Human key-ins invite errors—and late-night rework. Concur’s direct card feeds erase that pain.
- Security gaps - Why it hurts? ISO 27001 & PCI audits matter—does your vendor tick every box?
If any feel familiar, you’re already paying a “future tax.”
Why future-focused businesses start with Concur Expense
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Connected data – Card, travel, and ERP feeds create one accurate ledger—no blind spots.
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AI + mobile UX – Snap receipts, let AI audit, and keep staff compliant without policing.
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Scalability on tap – Bolt on mileage capture, intelligent audit, payments, or 150+ partner apps whenever you’re ready.
“We’ll double sales in three years—Concur lets us scale without extra overhead.” —WB Manufacturing Controller
Why “Connected” beats “Standalone”
A siloed tool stops at reimbursing receipts. Concur Expense sits at the centre of an intelligent spend platform:
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AI auditing with Concur Detect flags out-of-policy spend before it hits payroll.
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Mobile snap-and-submit keeps road warriors compliant without nagging.
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App Centre & open APIs link 150+ partner apps or your custom integrations
Start with Concur Expense and then expand your solution when ready by integrating these additional SAP Concur solutions, tools and features:
- Intelligent Audit: Backed by our global team of auditors and intelligent technology, your business can drive compliance, identify potential fraud, and minimise workloads for your team
- Concur Detect by Oversight: Use AI and machine learning to automatically analyse expense reports, speed up the auditing process, and resolve issues before and after reimbursement.
- Drive: Automatically capture and document mileage, enforce policy compliance, and get visibility into your company’s spend.
- Concur Request: Simplify requests and approvals, drive policy compliance, and control company spending.
- Intelligence: Gain actionable insights into your Concur Travel, Concur Expense, and Concur Invoice data.
- Budget: Take control of budgets and make informed decisions with a consolidated view of spending
- Payment solutions: Pay vendors and employees on time and simplify the entire payment process.
- Company bill statements: Centralise the purchase card process and get more visibility in your company’s spending.
Planning beyond expense management
Expense management is one part of an intelligent spend management platform. Many of our customers start with Concur Expense and then enhance and extend that solution as their spend management needs evolve. Some of the benefits experienced by businesses worldwide using SAP Concur solutions for travel and expense or invoice management:
- 26% increase in tax reclaim (GST, VAT) savings through SAP Concur solutions or SAP Concur partners
- 47% increase in tax reclaim (GST, VAT) savings through SAP Concur solutions or SAP Concur partners
- 134-148 estimated hours saved by finance/AP teams weekly
- $43K - $54K estimated annual savings
- 7 months to see positive ROI
Peek Inside the Free Guide - the four-page document packs:
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One-minute checklist to test if your tool is future-proof
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Side-by-side snapshot: stand-alone vs. connected spend management
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Expansion roadmap showing how customers add AI audit, mileage, payment, budgeting etc modules as they grow
Ready to Future-Proof Your Spend Control?
Explore the numbers, the roadmap, and the self-guided demo in “Is Your Current Expense Solution a Future Expense?”
Download now and make sure your next growth spurt isn’t funded by yesterday’s expense system.
