We have a great
deal of traveling employees. Often our business trips are planned so that the
traveler has to visit several countries on the same trip, making multiple
currency options in one expense report necessary. As our traveling activities
have risen significantly over the past few years, and subsequent the
administrative burden for the traveling employees, we found it necessary to
look with more scrutiny on the company expenses and on the management and
settlement of our business travels.
Our requirements to a possible software-based solution was ease-of-use,
multiple currencies option, more efficient approval procedures, reduction of
clerical errors, and a far more better overview of the entire process. Our
choice fell on the Travel-X system, and today we can with great satisfaction
conclude that all of our demands and expectations have been fully met. The
users view Travel-X as very user-friendly, turning the experience of travel
expense report processing in to a positive experience. In our finance
department a far more better overview has been obtained, covering number of
outstanding expense reports, total outstanding cash in advance, etc. The
integrated electronically approval procedures in Travel-X have made the entire
approval and communication procedure far more transparent and easy.
The implementation of the system has been short and easy. We initially selected
ten employees for testing the system in a three month period, whose experiences
formed the further work of adjusting the system to our organization and
administrative procedures. All involved parties attended a mini-seminar during
this process involving education in how to use the system optimally. In both
the testing phase as in the implementation phase we have had the full
assistance from our vendor, who with great acceptance and commitment have
evaluated our suggestions for improvements and subsequently implemented these
swiftly.
Ms. Lis Stuhde Treasurer