Now Taking Nominations for the 2021 SAP Concur Innovation Awards
Each year the SAP Concur organization honors a group of top customers who embody innovative and purpose-driven business practices that we are proud to support. Our goal is to recognize and celebrate our customers around the globe who exemplify excellence in innovation and purposeful narratives with the support of SAP Concur solutions.
Tell us how SAP Concur solutions helps your organization run its best!
Are you breaking new ground using SAP Concur solutions? The 2021 SAP Concur Innovation Awards is your opportunity to share your organization’s story and be recognized as a leader in your industry who is pushing the boundaries around digital transformation, and travel and expense.
For 2021, SAP Concur will identify five best-run stories of innovation, with a focus on people, process, and purpose. What makes a winning story? Your organization’s use of SAP Concur solutions to:
- Meaningfully impact your employees’ time, experience, and finances
- Support your business initiatives by improving or evolving your internal travel and expense processes
- Solve business or industry challenges that allows your organization to run at its best
Please share your innovation story by nominating your organization here!
Why should you participate?
By participating in the 2021 SAP Concur Innovation Awards, you’ll have the chance to:
- Showcase your innovation story at an SAP Concur event
- Gain recognition as a leading innovator
- Participate in a customer video story
- Earn a trophy as a winner
- Receive a complimentary pass and hotel accommodations to one SAP Concur event
- Engage in exclusive promotional opportunities throughout the year
From now through October 9, 2020 you can nominate your organization to amplify its achievements and innovations. Winners will be notified mid-October 2020, and then announced mid-March 2021.
A look back at customers who run at their best
In case you missed it, meet the 2020 Innovation Awards winners that are pushing the boundaries of travel and expense.
Airbus Americas: Aerospace pioneer Airbus is working toward a safer and better-connected world. Airbus Americas implemented SAP Concur solutions for a paperless T&E solution, with secure automation, that enforces compliance. The organization has saved $1 million in employee hours in three years, and travel policy compliance shot up to 85 %.
“Innovation in our market is key to leading the way,” explains Richard Masci, Head of Financial Systems at Airbus Americas. “SAP Concur is the cornerstone to enable innovation.”
Cisco Systems: A global leader in IT, networking, and cybersecurity solutions that enable transformational benefits for customers, Cisco was able to deploy Concur Travel and Expense in more than 88 countries in less than a year to bring significant transformation and operational improvement opportunities to life. And at the core of innovation at Cisco are its people. The ease of use of SAP Concur solutions has resulted in an increase in employee satisfaction from 48% to 77% since going live in 2018.
“Culture and employees are our competitive advantage.” shares Alexandra Lopez, Chief Procurement Officer at Cisco Systems. “We’re really encouraging diverse thought and perspectives throughout the innovation and delivery of our products.”
Globe Telecom: Globe aims to help people and businesses in the Philippines to grow successfully through its purpose-driven culture to create a digital nation with a focus on sustainability. SAP Concur solutions helped to solve Globe’s business challenges around travel and spend management so that the organization could focus on the key pillars to care for people, the environment, and in making a positive societal impact. Only four months after going live, Globe has achieved 100% adoption across the company.
“We are creators and enablers of the Filipino digital lifestyle,” shares Jessica Mari Zara, Manager at Globe. “We nurture businesses, empower individuals through quality products and services, and strengthen the country through strategic partnerships.”
PACCAR: A global leader in designing and manufacturing commercial vehicles and delivered to more than 100 countries, PACCAR has employees that frequently travel to suppliers and manufacturing plants around the globe. By deploying SAP Concur solutions in an effort to streamline the employee experience around travel and expense, the organization saw a reduction in costs, improved compliance and mitigated risks. With a single automated solution for booking travel and managing expenses, PACCAR identified $100K in potential annual savings and reduced leakage. The organization gained the visibility it needed into spend data and employees experienced an improved travel and expense process.
“We have utilized the tool to promote our preferred suppliers and have been able to realize over $20,000 in savings with just one supplier,” explains Nari Narvani, Global Travel, Expense and Corporate Card manager at PACCAR.
VMware: A global leader in cloud infrastructure and digital workspace technology, VMware accelerates digital transformation for evolving IT environments, helps organizations transform into digital businesses, deliver better experiences for both customers and employees, and unlock new possibilities that transform the world. VMware previously had a process that was challenging for end-users, and the entire process was cumbersome and error-prone. With SAP Concur solutions, the organization and its employees found its new process intuitive and easy to use.
“Our mission is to deliver solutions to our business partners that transform, scale, or grow the business [through] process re-engineering and automation,” shares Reema Mukherjee, Director, Business Transformation and Automation. “SAP Concur helps us achieve our goals by allowing us to scale our organization and improve productivity as our employee population keeps growing. We are delivering quick, easy, and fully auditable T&E functionality to our employees.”
We look forward to reading all of the innovative ways in which our customers are utilizing SAP Concur solutions to drive your purposeful businesses forward! Please visit the SAP Concur Innovation Awards website to learn more about the Innovation Awards and to submit a nomination form.