Travel cost diagnosis
What your travel actually costs, and where the money is lost
Management has set a savings target. Now someone is expected to say what travel and meetings cost and where savings are possible. In most companies nobody can answer that alone.
Why the figure is missing
Sourcing knows the contracts with the travel agency. HR knows the policy. Accounting knows the expense claims, IT knows the booking tool. Every function has its own figure, and the figures do not match.
Cutting in that situation means cutting across the board. It hits the trips that bring in revenue as much as the unnecessary ones. The real cost drivers stay untouched because they appear in none of the reports.
Who this is for
Companies with around 75 regular travellers or more, where several functions share responsibility for travel and meetings. The counterpart is the commercial management.
What I need in advance
Whatever exists: the travel policy, the reporting from your travel agency, an analysis of expense claims and card spend in aggregated form. We go through the booking tool together on screen. Anything you cannot supply is already a finding.
How it runs
Introductory call.
Thirty minutes by phone, free of charge. We establish whether the diagnosis fits your situation and which documents you hold.
Documents.
You send what exists. I review it in advance and prepare the open questions.
Diagnosis day.
Mostly remote. Sample review of the documents, a shared look at the booking tool, conversations with the functions involved.
Report.
You receive it within a week.
What you receive
- On one page, who decides what in your organisation today
- The contradictions between policy, booking tool, agency reporting and expense data
- Three places where money is lost, and which of them to address first
What the diagnosis does not deliver
It names places and an order, not a euro figure. A reliable savings figure requires a full data review. That is a separate undertaking and follows if you want it.
Independent
I book nothing, broker nothing and receive no commission from any provider. My fee is paid by the client and by nobody else. That is why the report also states what argues against a measure.
Terms
A fixed daily fee, including preparation and follow-up. Travel costs are charged separately. Terms on request, agreed in the introductory call.
The diagnosis answers what travel costs. The Business Travel & MICE Assessment Day answers why the organisation does not steer it.
If the question of travel costs is on your desk right now, write me a line about it.
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