Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 1 Travel Procurement 411 NBTA CCTE Course Handouts, Part 1 August 23 rd, 2009 San Diego
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement Presented by Scott Gillespie 2 (O) (Eastern Time Zone) Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement LinkedIn Profile
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 3 is travel different?
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement Common Travel Management Problems – How Do You: Minimize transaction costs? Control purchases at point of sale? Maximize suppliers’ price competition? Enforce travel policy compliance? Make faster decisions about supplier bids? Agree to realistic supplier goals? Reduce your contract risks? Track your savings? Predominantly procurement problems
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement Travel Is Not a Commodity — Right? We Could Be Talking About… Travel isn’t as different as we might think … or Advertising …Travel … or Health Benefits … or I.T. Consulting … or Enterprise Software Common Points “It’s a significant expense category.” “The spend is very hard to control.” “It touches most employees.” “You can’t just switch suppliers like you can with office supplies.” “It really affects sales and/or productivity— but you can’t quantify it.”
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement Laptops Temp Labor I.T. Outsourcing Advertising Carpeting Coal Sourcing Complexity
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement k Consolidate Spend Specify Quality Set Targets Set Targets RFx or Tender Analyze and Negotiate Analyze and Negotiate Decide and Contract Decide and Contract Implement and Track Implement and Track
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9 More market share! Lower prices! made simple travel sourcing
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 10 Safety Productivity Convenience Comfort Compliance the goal is value Cost
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 11 four challenges
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 12 travel policies tight traveler support
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement first 13 Overly-tight travel policies: then
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 14 every traveler is an expert
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement the WIIFM factor 15
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 16 is easy buying outside of corporate
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 17 undiscounted spend lost data traveler itineraries lost
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Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 19 best approach
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 20 standard sourcing tools
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 21 specific travel- modeling tools
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 22 walk the talk
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 23 credible promises
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 24 credible threats
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 25 recognize a good deal
Gillespie’s Guide to Travel Procurement 26 End of Part 1