Advanced Reporting Services
Organisations automating their T&E Management processes strive to measure corporate goal achievement through high-fidelity, quantifiable metrics. The ability to generate meaningful reports and derive actionable Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) is fundamental, particularly when evaluating project ROI or sales initiative efficiency. Finance managers can architect specialized KPIs across various T&E categories to monitor employee compliance and drill down into granular spend metrics across these core reporting pillars:
Accrual
Real-time Expense Accrual Reports identifying outstanding financial liabilities.
Trips
Comprehensive Employee Travel patterns and Itinerary Analysis.
Audit
Report-Level Exception Analysis and robust Auditing compliance reports.
Administration
Billed Transaction Reconciliation and detailed Travel Configuration oversight.
Compliance
Adoption tracking, Attendee analysis, and Top Exception Violator identification
Expense Processing
Approver Statistics, Expense Trends, and Un-submitted Expense reporting.
Finance
Credit Card Transaction reconciliations and Cash Advance risk analysis.
Vendor
Deep-dive Airfare, Car Rental, and Hotel concentration analysis.
Spending
Granular Top Spender metrics by Expense Type, Department, and individual.
Meaningful reports and derived KPIs are critical catalysts for organisational growth, providing the visibility needed to track adherence to T&E policies and optimize cash flow.
Key benefits of our reporting framework include:
Target Measurement Precision
KPIs provide the objective lens required to measure progress toward financial targets, allowing leadership to identify friction points and make data-backed adjustments.
Cultivating a Learning Environment
Spend data creates an educational atmosphere where managers can use performance metrics to coach employees on better booking behaviors and policy adherence.
Access to Real-Time Intelligence
Real-time KPI dashboards provide an immediate snapshot of organisational health, preventing frantic end-of-quarter corrections by enabling proactive adjustments.
Enhanced Financial Accountability
Quantitative proof of performance ensures that employee reviews and internal audits are based on indisputable spend data rather than inaccurate assumptions.
Boosting organisational Morale
Transparent goal-setting and achieving interim KPIs creates a sense of purpose, rewarding employees with consistent results and a high-performance culture.
Specialized Technical Reporting & Business Intelligence
Ad-hoc Report Development under Concur Analytics
Using SAP Concur’s hosted Concur Analytics feature, our technical team develops actionable, ad-hoc Cognos reports. We leverage over 150 standard “out-of-the-box” templates, spanning Travel, Request, and Expense,to provide you with the control needed to manage third-party spend and internal costs effectively. We offer the flexibility to schedule these reports for regular distribution to specific stakeholder groups, ensuring consistent visibility across your standard Concur solutions.
Complex Report Development using Concur Intelligence
For organisations subscribing to Concur Intelligence, we leverage the advanced power of Report Studio. Our reporting subject matter experts utilize extensive SQL experience to architect complex dashboards involving multiple queries, charts, and cascaded drill-down functionality. This premium service enables “report bursting,” allowing query results to be automatically distributed via email to global management teams, providing the comprehensive visibility required for strategic decision-making.
Sophisticated Concur Analytics Navigation Training
We deliver web-based or on-site training focused on sophisticated Cognos Connection and Query Studio navigation. Our training empowers your team to build ad-hoc queries via drag-and-drop interfaces, create crosstabs and charts, and apply advanced filters or language preferences. This enablement ensures your internal staff can fully navigate and utilize the robust features of the SAP Concur reporting engine independently.
Custom Reporting & Business Warehouse Integration
If your organisation prefers reporting outside the Concur environment, our custom data extraction service provides structured data exports for advanced warehousing. As a certified partner, we specialize in optimizing your SAP Concur data for powerful Business Intelligence (BI) reporting:
- Structured Data Exports: Tailored exports for Expenses, Travel, and Receipts.
- Customized Data Fields: Defined criteria aligned with your specific BI objectives.
- Flexible Export Formats: Seamless integration via CSV, Excel, XML, or TXT.
- Automated Scheduling: Regular data updates ranging from daily to monthly syncs.
- External BI Support: Transforming raw Concur data into actionable insights for your warehouse.
Let us help you transform your SAP Concur data into actionable insights. Our Advanced Reporting Services ensure that your organisation has access to accurate, relevant, and actionable reports, supporting your growth objectives and driving informed decision-making.
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FinTrans Solutions is regarded as one of the most trusted SAP Concur CIP partners globally. FinTrans pioneered this domain in the Asian market and has since gained global recognition for delivery excellence. We continue to build on our reputation for sound analysis, seamless implementation, and rock-solid Application Maintenance Support (AMS) across the globe.
FAQs
What are SAP Concur Advanced Reporting Services?
SAP Concur Advanced Reporting Services help organisations turn travel, expense, and spend data into meaningful reports, dashboards, and KPIs. These reports support better visibility into expenses, policy compliance, employee spend behaviour, vendor usage, and financial performance.
Why are T&E KPIs important for organisations?
T&E KPIs help finance and business teams measure how effectively travel and expense processes are performing. They can track policy compliance, expense processing time, unsubmitted reports, top spenders, vendor trends, audit exceptions, and overall spend visibility.
What types of SAP Concur reports can FinTrans Solutions create?
FinTrans Solutions can support reports across accruals, trips, audit, administration, compliance, expense processing, finance, vendor, and spending categories. These reports help organisations review outstanding liabilities, travel patterns, exception trends, credit card transactions, cash advances, and employee spend metrics.
What is the difference between Concur Analytics and Concur Intelligence?
Concur Analytics supports standard and ad-hoc reporting for SAP Concur data, while Concur Intelligence provides more advanced reporting capabilities for complex dashboards, drill-down analysis, scheduled distribution, and deeper business intelligence needs.
How does advanced reporting improve spend visibility?
Advanced reporting improves spend visibility by consolidating travel and expense data into clear dashboards and reports. This helps managers identify trends, monitor policy exceptions, review vendor spend, track budgets, and make faster decisions based on accurate spend data.
Can SAP Concur reporting help with audit and compliance?
Yes. SAP Concur reporting can help identify report-level exceptions, policy violations, attendee details, top exception violators, and audit trends. This gives finance teams better control over compliance and supports more informed internal audit processes.
Can SAP Concur data be used in external BI or data warehouse systems?
Yes. SAP Concur data can be exported for external Business Intelligence or data warehouse reporting. Depending on the organisation’s needs, data can be structured for expenses, travel, receipts, and custom fields, with export formats such as CSV, Excel, XML, or TXT.