DRC Capital Sets Up For Growth with the SAP Concur Platform

DRC reduces 30-40% of time on expense and invoice processes while making travel seamless for its business partners. [Read case study]

DRC Capital is a real estate investor and turned to SAP Concur to help solve a number of efficiency challenges the growing company was facing. We spoke to Maria Santos Roman, the Office Manager in charge of arranging and processing all the partners’ travel plans, expenses and invoices.

Maria came across SAP Concur in an article in City A.M. and wanted to find out how we could take the painful paper steps not only out of the expense process, but out of their invoice process too. With 16 employees, she was initially concerned that DRC Capital was too small to consider an integrated expense, travel and invoice platform, but since going live, Maria says she hasn’t looked back.

“It’s amazing how much paper we used to use. We have little paper storage now because everything is scanned and stored in SAP Concur. And if we ever have an HMRC audit, we can quickly access any documentation we need.” – Maria Santos Roman.

Like many small businesses, growth is top of the agenda for DRC Capital, and Maria knew as the company grew, so too would the admin around their spend processes. Rather than look for separate solutions to solve each challenge or continue to let the paper problem pile up, DRC Capital implemented a single, easy-to-use platform with SAP Concur.

Not only does the solution save Maria a lot of time, her partners love the mobile app too. “People have taken to Concur Expense very well because they can take pictures of their receipts and then recycle them. They can do all this on the go and it’s really fast once they get the hang of it. Our Managing Partner uses the SAP Concur mobile app so he can approve invoices while he’s travelling.”

One thing’s for sure, being an office manager means being a travel agent, an AP professional, a finance controller and all-round office whizz! Working with innovative, growing companies like DRC Capital is why we exist and we look forward to working closely with the business as it continues to take off.

Read the full details of the case study here.