Travel management system integration is true efficiency
Most travel procurement managers are well versed in the various systems available to them in their quest to bring efficient management and reporting to their travel programmes. However, efficiently using various different systems to complete a booking is still inefficient, Jim Weighell, Corporate Manager at Sure Travel, tells SmartProcurement.
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Travel Management in a recovery year - more challenging than during a downturn?
The second quarter of 2011 shows that business travel volumes are in a recovery and growth phase. After the tight discipline evident during the last two years’ downturn, this recovery can present procurement managers with a challenge equal to or greater than that presented during the bottom of the economic downturn, Jim Weighell, Corporate Manager at Sure Travel tells SmartProcurement.
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Procuring domestic air travel: strategies offer savings
Most organisations agree that there are savings to be had in domestic travel. The big questions are:how significant are these savings?
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how do we realise these prospects?
Does a saving of up to 40% on air ticket prices or a 100% additional discount on your ticket price versus your corporate fare discount sound unrealistic? There is evidence to support that this is possible and that there are organisations achieving these discounts on a regular basis, Karen van Staden of benchmarking organisation Purchasing Index tells SmartProcurement.
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The fundamentals of the corporate travel commodity
A corporate travel manager has to understand a travel market place that involves travel suppliers, agencies and technology providers. This all the while managing a controllable expenditure that ranks the 2nd largest for organisations globally.In a bid to assist travel managers, whether new to the commodity or with experience under their belts, Dr. Roderick Ross, CEO of online travel management platform TravelLinck, will pen a series of articles for SmartProcurement analysing the various aspects of the end-to-end travel procurement process.
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Demand management and outsourcing of travel
Organisations that have travel driven by Procurement professionals have a much better ability to do demand management than other functions, most notably when travel is overseen by human resources, who are pretty weak in terms of demand management, says Christa Manning, director of Expert Insights research for American Express Business Travel Global Advisory Services.
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