Simplify spend management across your manufacturing operations

Bring travel, expense, and invoice management together with AI-powered automation to reduce manual work, improve visibility and control, and support your manufacturing operation as it grows. 

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Why does manufacturing spend get harder to manage as you grow?

Growth can make manufacturing spend harder to manage. New plants, expanding teams, business travel, and supplier activity can spread expenses and invoices across locations and systems, making it harder to see spending, control costs, and keep approvals moving. 

Use our self-assessment checklist to see where your travel, expense, and invoice processes may be holding you back and whether it’s time to rethink spend management. 

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Solve common manufacturing spend management challenges

A connected approach to travel, expense, and invoice management can make everyday work easier while giving finance teams the visibility and control they need to manage costs and support growth. 

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Get a clearer view of manufacturing spend
Bring travel, expense, and invoice data together to see spending more clearly across employees, plants, locations, and systems.
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Automate manual expense and invoice work
Automate routine processes and approvals so employees and finance teams spend less time on administrative work and more time supporting the business.
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Strengthen spend controls across your operations
Apply policies and approval processes more consistently to help control costs and keep spending on track across the business.
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Scale spend management as your business grows
Create consistent spend processes that can keep pace as transaction volumes, teams, plants, and manufacturing operations grow.

Connect travel, expense, and invoice management

SAP Concur solutions help manufacturers connect expense, business travel, and supplier invoice management for a clearer view of spend across the business. 

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Concur Expense helps bring expense data together, automate processes, and give finance teams greater visibility into employee spending.
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Concur Travel connects travel booking and expense management to help employees travel more easily while supporting policy compliance and cost control.
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Concur Invoice automates manual accounts payable processes and improves visibility into supplier spending.
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“We rarely see errors. All of the correct data is right there in front of you. It cuts our time in half for invoicing and expense reports.”

Tara Reid
Accounts Payable Specialist
Barron Lighting Group

See how SAP Concur solutions can work for your manufacturing business

Explore our solutions on your own with a product tour, or talk with us about your organization's travel, expense, invoice, and spend management needs. 

See the solutions in action
Take a self-guided look at how SAP Concur solutions can simplify travel and expense management.
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Talk with an SAP Concur expert
See how SAP Concur solutions can support the spend management needs of your manufacturing operation.
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