Comments on: Encourage Employees to Crowdsource for Greater Savings http://www.coupa.com/general/encourage-employees-to-crowdsource-greater-savings/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:08:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paul Nilsen http://www.coupa.com/general/encourage-employees-to-crowdsource-greater-savings/#comment-10 Paul Nilsen Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:36:04 +0000 http://www.coupa.com/?p=4598#comment-10 With regard to your comment about Corporate Travel programs, although there will always be better deals from time to time through online competitors like Kayak, going outside your travel program offers several significant downsides: 1) Itinerary changes can be more costly and wouldn't be easily accessible through your travel agency. 2) For insurance purposes, your company doesn't have visibility of your flight info through a 3rd party booking site. 3) The short term savings of spot buying Travel erodes your ability to negotiate air and hotel agreements at the end of the year since this spend isn't properly captured. This results in higher program pricing which creates a vicious circle of maverick spend. That being said, this site is very interesting and I'm looking forward to reading more about your services. - Paul With regard to your comment about Corporate Travel programs, although there will always be better deals from time to time through online competitors like Kayak, going outside your travel program offers several significant downsides:

1) Itinerary changes can be more costly and wouldn’t be easily accessible through your travel agency.

2) For insurance purposes, your company doesn’t have visibility of your flight info through a 3rd party booking site.

3) The short term savings of spot buying Travel erodes your ability to negotiate air and hotel agreements at the end of the year since this spend isn’t properly captured. This results in higher program pricing which creates a vicious circle of maverick spend.

That being said, this site is very interesting and I’m looking forward to reading more about your services.

- Paul

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