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Spend Management
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2.2KHow To Decentralize Vendor Spend Without Losing Control
Optimism continues to dwindle for the globe’s corporate travel sector, with industry heavyweights expecting business trips to remain on pause for at...
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1.4KWorkforce Spend Sector Gets Busy
The big action in corporate spend management is travel and entertainment (T&E), where the 800-pound gorilla has long been Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) goliath,...
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2.9KDeep Dive: How AI Streamlines Expense Reporting For Field Workers
High-end yoga apparel purchases and private helicopter rides are two charges one might expect executives to make on their personal credit cards,...
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2.6KDeploying Spend Management Technology To Rebuild After Disaster Strikes
Fixing homes ravaged by fires and flooding is tough without access to proper spend tools that can quickly get workers into the...
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4.8KHow Spend Tech Helps Power Post-Disaster Reconstruction
Manual expense reports remain plagued with pain points for the employees and employers who must file them. It is thus unsurprising that...
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3.0KBasware Revamps eProcurement Interface
The Finnish electronic invoicing and source-to-pay firm Basware has launched an updated edition of Basware Purchase to help its business clients boost...
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2.1KDeep Dive: How Firms Can Avoid Costly Mistakes Come Tax Season
Spring may seem far away, but U.S. businesses are likely already feeling tax season’s pressures. Filing is exhausting and complicated for individuals,...
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1.7KAE Events On Why Spend Management Is Crucial To Event Planning
Events are a sector where unplanned expenses are just part of making sure that the show goes on. In the latest Workforce...
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4.3KManaging Spend In A Sector Where Unplanned Expenses Are The Norm Issues
More workers in the United States and around the world are beginning to ask for updated expense tools as business becomes more...
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1.8KDeep Dive: Why Manual Expense Reporting Systems Have Outlived Their Usefulness
Employee reimbursements can be frustrating for all parties involved, even as expense reporting goes digital. Approximately 38 percent of U.S. employees use...
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3.4KWhy Sysco Turned The Page On Manual Expense Management
Manual expense management tools had their time in the spotlight, largely because they were the only options available for employee reimbursements and...
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5.2KBehind Sysco’s Spend Management Switch To Cards
Businesses of all sizes are slowly phasing manual expense tools out of spend management strategies. Employees now work on a global scale...
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2.2KHelping Nonprofits Embrace Cash Management
There are approximately 1.56 million active nonprofits in the United States. These groups often have limited resources and must work carefully to...
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2.5KWinning The ‘Game Of Keystrokes’ With Spend Tools
In providing Thanksgiving meals to communities in need this week, missing receipts or misspent funds can eat away at resources. These are...
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3.9KHow Spend Tools Feed Food Banks’ Need For Accountability
Every dollar matters for a small to medium-sized business (SMB). Recent data indicated that 82 percent of SMBs shutter in their first...
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2.3KDeep Dive: Solutions To Help SMBs Keep On Trucking
U.S. companies of all sizes are purchasing trucks and expanding their fleets. This demand is putting added pressure on the managers tasked...
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2.7KSpend Tools Provide A Clean Slate For Cleaning Service SMBs
Messy reimbursement processes can cause workers to reconsider buying critical job materials, a factor that can leave jobs incomplete, and customers unhappy....
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4.8KHow Stanley Steemer Scrubs Complexity From Employee Reimbursement
The U.S. small to mid-sized business (SMB) market is on track to reach $9 trillion by next year. As the market grows,...
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3.2KDeep Dive: Building Steady Construction Cash Flows With Digital Tools
SMBs and project managers in the U.S. construction market must keep tabs on budgets and how funds are being spent if they...
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4.0KPayment Cards Shine A Light On Construction Spend For Solar Firms
The solar energy market’s rapid growth has many field-based solar technicians finding themselves on shaky financial ground when making expensive out-of-pocket purchases...
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4.3KHow Spending Cards Lighten Solar Installation’s Financial Burden
The U.S. construction market is on track to reach $1.8 trillion by 2023. In order for construction firms, contractors and subcontractors...
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3.0KDeep Dive: Making Field-Based Employees More Efficient
The number of workers who participate in field-based roles — including construction professionals, plumbers and pipefitters — is projected to surge in...
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3.4KSpend Solutions Deliver For Unattended Retail Drivers
As companies seek to offer healthier food options to employees, the market for smart, unattended vending tech is on track to reach...
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5.0KSpend Solutions That Drive Delivery’s Last Mile
Cash flow is the lifeblood for many small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs). Without it, many SMBs wouldn’t be able to cover their...
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6.4KChanging The Conversation: From Spend Management To Margin Improvement
The rise of the gig economy and the popularity of remote work are among the factors that are laying bare the need...
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2.6KDeep Dive: Spending Cards Help Charter School Procurement Make The Grade
Approximately 3.2 million students attended United States charter schools in 2017, according to some reports. These independently operated institutions do not charge...
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3.3KHumanitarian Workers Find Financial Order Amid Disaster Chaos
When natural and man-made disasters strike, local residents need fast, easy access to medical supplies. However, ensuring that funds are spent appropriately...
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7.0KHow Spend Management Delivers The Right Meds To Relief Orgs
Field-based spending requires keeping careful tabs on how the money is spent to assure that all transactions are appropriate and compliant with...
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4.4KHelping Couples Fall In Love With Jointly Managed Finances
One can buy almost anything with money – but, as the Beatles observed, it can’t buy love. Which might lead to the...
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4.5KDeep Dive: Mobile Expense Reporting Helps Business Travel Take Off
Pulling together business trips can be a complicated effort. These excursions involve not only extensive coordination, but require travelers to manage payments...
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5.9KHow Team Rubicon Manages Disaster Relief Spending
Whether they’re clearing hurricane wreckage or mucking out homes, disaster relief workers need easy, instant access to funds to keep operations running....
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9.3KDisaster-Proof Spend Management Solutions — For When Disaster Strikes
Though they may have fewer resources than large firms, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and self-employed freelancers are not exempt from business travel....
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9.2KIntegrating Payments Into The Workflow — And The Workforce
The workforce skews tech-savvy, younger ... and remote. The way we pay and get paid is ever-more intuitive, cued by Uber. So it is —...
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2.2KDeep Dive: Spend Solutions To Help Charitable Organizations Spread Cheer
During the holiday season, nonprofit and religious organizations step up their fundraising efforts for charitable causes. These groups must demonstrate a high...
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2.8KFor Charter Schools, A Workforce Spend Tutorial
Public charter schools operate independently from traditional public schools — but with this autonomy, says Marco Rafanelli of BuyQ, comes less purchasing...
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7.6KWorkforce Solutions Give Charter Schools A Spending Lesson
While some workers are stuck behind a desk or tucked away in a cubicle, others have to do their jobs from the...
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4.6KDeep Dive: How Prepaid Cards Can Ease Gig Workers’ Payment Pains
As companies increasingly turn to gig workers for short-term projects, and workers see the gig economy as more than a “side hustle,”...
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3.3KHow Workforce Tools Keep Productions On Track
The show, of course, must go on. But when production freelancers have to shell out-of-pocket for business expenses, delayed reimbursements can cause...
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10.7KTRENDING: How Spend Management Keeps The Show Going On
Whether making travel purchases, buying specialized equipment or even just picking up muffins for the morning meeting, employees often have problems getting...
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3.9KHow Corporate Cards Help Universities Spend Smarter
The worldwide meetings, incentives, conventions and exhibitions (MICE) industry is growing at an estimated compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.5 percent...
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5.6KLiquid Assets: How Bevi Quenches Workers’ Thirst For Reimbursements
More than one-third of U.S. workers wait two weeks or more to be reimbursed for business expenses, straining both employee bank accounts...
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3.7KNEW REPORT: The Hidden Costs Of Corporate Employee IOUs
It’s an inconvenience many field-based employees face: being forced to dip into their own personal accounts to make company purchases for work-related...
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2.3KEquipping Disaster Workers With Card-Based Financial Tools
When disaster strikes, relief workers mobilize. But rebuilding wrecked homes and opening shelters takes time and involves unexpected expenses. Carrying cash is...
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5.4KNEW REPORT: Bringing Spend Management Tools To The Workforce
It takes money to make money, but spending money in pursuit of that mission is often a mismanaged ordeal — that’s especially...
