Navigate Economic Uncertainty Through Visibility and Control of Business Spend
In these uncertain times, businesses are looking at how best to prepare for the coming weeks and months. Although changes are to be expected, your organisation shouldn’t let disruption drive up costs. We believe that, through full visibility and control of business spend, businesses can attain the adaptability and flexibility needed to navigate economic uncertainty and keep costs under control.
Now is the moment
It’s always a good time to control spending. But there’s no better moment than when sudden changes give you the opportunity to evaluate your business. In times when unpredictable market forces put new pressure on your plans and budgets, or trigger changes to VAT reclaim and cashflow, managing costs becomes more crucial than ever.
Why not view this moment as an unexpected opportunity to review your expense budgets and assess your spend management systems and processes? Taking the right action now will not only help steer you through this period of economic uncertainty but keep you on the path to success when things return to normal, too.
Gaining visibility to control costs
Achieving full control of costs can help you adapt and remain resilient in times of economic uncertainty, supporting a strong financial statement and enabling you to redirect budgets where the business needs them most. But before control comes visibility. Having a complete view of spend will allow you to gather powerful insights and be more proactive in your decisions. For example, let’s consider an organisation that uses centralised data to track and verify all the ways employees spend. This organisation would be much better positioned to detect and avoid such risks as policy violations, reporting inaccuracies, and potential fraud than an organisation without the same level of visibility. It’s in providing this visibility that SAP Concur solutions can help today’s business navigate the uncertain.
SAP Concur solutions to carry business forward
SAP Concur solutions can equip you to actively manage costs and navigate uncertainty by remaining adaptive and responsive as things change. Our solutions do this by connecting all your expense and invoice data in one place, providing you with a complete, integrated view of spend. By connecting this previously siloed data, you can collect, connect and draw insights for more proactive control and agile management.
Services like Concur Expense, Concur Invoice, Concur Audit and Concur Travel seamlessly connect with our core platform to give you the full visibility required to best manage your total spend. Because sudden changes to the economy may also mean changes to VAT requirements, impacting reclaim and cashflow for your business. With our ecosystem of partners and tax experts on hand to help you better understand these changes and put you back in control amidst uncertainty.
You can take action that will equip your business with the focus and agility needed to avoid risk and capitalise on new opportunities. And it’s an action that you truly can take now - all of our solutions can be implemented remotely, so you can make the changes today that will help you manage any disruption tomorrow.