By using one central source to track what you’re spending and where, you’ll be able to monitor events and meeting expenditure company-wide. And you’ll see where you might be able to make savings. Having Management Information (MI) at your fingertips can also help you optimize your negotiations with suppliers and drive your costs down even further.
The strategic approach was widely adopted in the 1990s by the USA pharmaceutical and technology industries, where large organisations with multiple locations made centralised meetings and events management the obvious choice. Cultural and language differences mean strategic meetings have grown more slowly in Europe, but technological advances have helped us meet these challenges. ATPI is now rolling out strategic meetings throughout the UK and across our global network of offices.
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, a workflow management platform that will provide full end-to-end integration of all travel data from multiple points. It will take an HR feed from different locations, another from Accounts Payable, one from travel booking systems and profile tools in use across the world, then aggregate the data to give a consolidated view in one single system.
This case study explains how operating in close partnership with our clients, we are able to provide them with the technology that really impacts the performance of their core business, offering exceptional speed and efficiency in the processing of complex crew arrangements. We believe that we’re the only TMC offering this solution in the market today, as the leading specialist in travel for energy and shipping companies.
Time is money for any company but for those managing large global crew movements and multiple manning agencies, there are huge cost implications of becoming swamped in a quagmire of visa
applications, passport checks, crew travel logistics and ever-changing hotel and flight bookings.