COVER STORY | Expenses Platform
BONFIRE OF THE EXPENSES
Dafydd Llewellyn, UK managing director of SAP Concur, tells DoF about how the expenses platform will liberate finance directors, while SME general manager Christal Bemont says it will grow to become the small business champion
14 DIRECTOR OF FINANCE
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DoF: How many customers does SAP Concur have in Britain and around the world? Llewellyn: We
have around 2,000
customers in the UK and are adding two new companies each day. Worldwide we have 25,000 customers processing $94 billion of spend going through expenses and invoice. In terms of Concur globally, we had our busiest day ever on September 4, where we processed 875,000 expense reports, 357,000 travel bookings and 75,000 invoices. It shows how stable our system is to work under that scale.
DoF: What does SAP Concur offer to finance directors? Llewellyn: Our two main focuses are the humble expense report, which is Concur’s
tradition, and invoices from suppliers, which need to be paid. Eighty per cent of companies in the UK still use a paper spreadsheet or a paper expense report, which is crazy when you think about the available technology. I mean, we don’t pay payroll via cheque any more. We’re really keen that we can add value
with an expense report that writes itself, which is productive for travellers and drives controls of compliance from a VAT and expense policy. The other crazy bit of paper is the
invoice from suppliers, which are coming into the business and need to be paid. Over 50 per cent of invoices coming in by paper. As soon as you have paper flowing round a business, its incredibly inefficient.
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