It\u2019s rightly said, \u201cYou can\u2019t cut your way to growth, but you can cut your way to survival.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting the entire business landscape and transforming how people spend their money, organizations must apply intelligent expense management to sustain within limited resources and attain their desired goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Employee spend, formerly company-controlled, has shifted to employee control, wreaking havoc on travel and other expense management. Peter Drucker was often quoted as saying, \u201cYou can\u2019t manage what you can\u2019t measure,\u201d meaning organizations must effectively track their employee spending to achieve the right outcomes for their business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In relation to employee spend, such as travel, meal, airfare, mileage, and other discretionary low-level spend, these outcomes translate into increasing expense visibility and keeping the spend controlled while simultaneously complying with the organization\u2019s expense policies and enabling employees\u2019 handling of payments, reporting, and invoice processing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While most companies have regulations, policies, and budgets to adhere to when it comes to employee spend, they still discover a significant amount of expense that remains unaccounted for until after it has been incurred. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Employees often use cash or a personal card, instead of using a corporate card or a p-card, to make hotel and airfare reservations. Such expenses escape the expense team\u2019s purview until they are submitted for reimbursement, which can happen months after they were incurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An intelligent spend management system <\/strong>must not only manage every source of spend (air travel, mileage, lodging, etc.) but also every expense category (including supplies, sales, home office, and others), and provide a single-window view of all expenses that benefits all the departments within the organization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Additionally, real-time data and analytics ensure employee spend aligns with the organizational goals. Moreover, better visibility and insight into everyday employee expenditure facilitates compliance with stipulated budgets, reduces the risk of fraud, and allows organizations to secure better deals and payment terms with vendors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The path to intelligent spend management comprises of a few best practices, which are as follows – <\/p>\n\n\n\n Zaggle Save, our comprehensive digital expense management solution, recognizes that spend management is the need of the hour and provides a centralized view of expenses at all times on any device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Your employees spend using the Zaggle card and can capture receipts on the mobile app. Through real-time dashboards and reports, the company has 100% visibility and control over organization-wide employee expenditure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our software caters to businesses of all sizes and allows organizations to create as many users as they need for employees. Approvers can view all expenses and their corresponding receipts, filter and see reports as per their requirement, and approve or reject the spend with a click.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the intelligent features of our expense management offering include the following – <\/p>\n\n\n\nBest practices for intelligent spend management<\/strong> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How can Zaggle help with your spend management needs?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n