Concur is the market leading Travel and Expense solution globally and following the acquisition by SAP is gaining quickly in hitherto smaller markets outside North America. However, it hasn’t been easy to find information about the solution beyond Concur’s own communication.
Whether you are just implementing Concur, already using it and interested to get more value out of it, or still in the decision making phase, the SAP PRESS book „Concur: Travel and Expense Management with SAP“ will help you.

Concur: Travel and Expense Management with SAP – Book Content

The book covers every aspect from the business case to project management, to use and configuration of each module and finally integration with other SAP solutions and 3rd party apps. Here is a quick content overview of the 9 chapters (324 pages):

1 Introducing Concur Travel and Expense including Vision and Business Case
2 Employee and User Data
3 Concur Travel
4 Concur Expense
5 Concur Request
6 Concur Reporting
7 Integrating Concur with Third-Party Apps and Services
8 Integrating Concur with Other SAP Solutions
9 Making Concur Work for You: Tips for Implementation Projects

And to go beyond the book, you can ask for a demo here

Ordering the SAP PRESS Concur book

You can order (pre-order until it will be available end of March) the book directly from SAP PRESS here:

• from the anywhere: https://www.sap-press.com/4262
  • Print edition: USD 79.95
  • E-book: USD 69.99
  • Bundle: USD 89.99
• from Germany: https://www.rheinwerk-verlag.de/concur-travel-and-expense-management-with-sap_4262/

You’ll also be able to get it in major book stores or online shops. As authors, we value a diverse and ethical ecosystem in the book industry. We’d therefore encourage you to buy the book from local stores (e.g. Waterstones usually have a good collection of SAP PRESS books in the UK) or from SAP PRESS directly.

The SAP PRESS Concur Authors

The book’s authors are all consultants sharing their real life experience. Therefore, you can also get their help in real life. If you’d like to run a workshop or discuss how the authors and their teams can help your Concur project to deliver full value, please get in touch.

Sven Ringling (iProCon, UK)

Sven is a senior consultant and the UK director of iProCon, an SAP SuccessFactors, SAP ERP HCM, and Concur consulting partner. He works with large and medium-sized organizations to drive people led digital transformation and to optimize HCM, payroll, and T&E processes. He is the author of two editions of Mastering HR Management with SAP ERP HCM and his 20+ years of experience and a passion for sharing have earned him the badge „SAP Mentor“. You can follow him on Twitter (@svenringling) or on Linkedin.

Hannah Smith (iProCon, UK)

When writing the book, Hannah worked at iProCon as a SAP Payroll and Concur consultant with a variety of customers in the UK and Malaysia. She has since taken a different role to focus on payroll in the public sector.

Andy Wittmann (Lyndon Group, USA)

Andy Wittmann is a senior consultant and the director of Global Services at Lyndon Group. His responsibilities include all aspects of global services and implementations and helping organizations improve their overall travel and expense programs on an international scale. He brings extensive experience to all his clients, having deployed Concur Travel, Concur Expense, and Concur Invoice for clients in North America, South America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. He has more than 15 years of experience in consulting, technology, and project management. He leverages his technical, process development, and Concur expertise to create optimal solutions for clients

Further Contributors

You’ve probably heard in a million times already: „Writing a book is a team effort“. But only those who have ever done it, appreciate how true this statement really is. First of all the staff at SAP PRESS have helped tremendously with planning, shaping the content, cover design and most notably driving typos and grammar issues out of and clarifications into the book. And then there are those colleagues, who contributed hole sections to the book and / or helped with their knowledge on special topics:

Rebecca Cheung (Nesoi Solutions, Australia)

Rebecca has contributed the sections on Australia, New Zealand and the APAC region together with Mick.
Rebecca is a Senior Consultant at Nesoi Solutions.  She is experienced at Concur implementations with a history at Concur and Nesoi.  Rebecca has supported more than 80 Concur clients across the Asia Pacific region, acting in the role of Concur implementation manager and functional consultant.  She has a strong understanding of client business requirements and optimises system configuration based on those requirements.  Rebecca has an MBA and is experienced at configuration of Concur.

Mick Lavers (Nesoi Solutions, Australia)

Mick has contributed the sections on Australia, New Zealand and the APAC region together with Rebecca.
Mick is the Managing Director of Nesoi Solutions.  He first implemented Concur 10 years ago, and has experience in implementing for large and small companies, including some of Australia’s largest companies. Concur publishes Mick’s Tips and Tricks in their Australian client newsletter.  He co-presented in a number of Concur User Groups in Australia. Mick has a strong passion for ensuring technology projects deliver effective change management so the technology can be embraced and achieves the desired outcomes.  Mick is trained and certified as a Lean Six Sigma BlackBelt and uses Lean Six Sigma to ensure sound process and effective change management. Mick has an MBA and is an experienced trainer.

Christian Luebke (iProCon, Germany)

Christian has contributed with his knowledge most notably about Concur – SAP integration, where his expertise is second to none. Christian is a senior consultant and a director for Germany of iProCon, an SAP SuccessFactors, SAP ERP HCM, and Concur consulting partner. Apart from large scale Concur projects, he also works with customers in SAP HCM on-premise projects with specialities on the technical side and in system consolidation.

Anja Marxsen (iProCon, Germany)

Anja has contributed the section about Germany and also gave valuable input to other chapters, most notably reporting.

Anja is a Senior Consultant at iProCon, an SAP SuccessFactors, SAP ERP HCM, and Concur consulting partner. She is a seasoned consultant for Travel and Expense in Concur as well as SAP Travelmanagement with 15 years experience, but also works with other elements of the SAP HCM solution, where she is an expert in authorisations amongst other things. She’s worked with Travel & Expenses for a variety of countries, but most notably in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.