How Recticel Cut Business Travel Expenses by Almost 10%

Some context

Recticel is headquartered in Brussels and is present in 21 countries, employing over 5.000 people in their 53 plants and offices.

Recticel is an international industrial player who wants to make a difference in people’s daily lives by improving their comfort. They hope to achieve this by using their skills and expertise in the transformation of polyurethane chemistry.

To serve their customers properly, they manage multiple entities with many employees who claim travel expenses daily.

With Mobilexpense, we have achieved €1M in savings on a €9M travel spend. 25% is due to simplified administration, the rest is thanks to spend management.

Michel Weber

Manager of Shared Services Centres & Transactional Processes at Recticel

The challenge

The international nature of Recticel's operations has always created a high level of complexity. The main challenge is operating with so many different systems, currencies and partners in many different countries.

They recognised the need to take their expense management to a whole new level. To remain the industry leader in Europe, they need an expense management solution that:

Takes little time and energy to manage.
Functions across their different entities.
Integrates with their tech stack.

The solution

Mobilexpense became Recticel's partner of choice in 2007 and has been now for over a decade.

The integration of Mobilexpense with Recticel's ERP and different providers makes data easily available in the solution, allowing the group to manage spending more effectively.

Mobilexpense is integrated with Recticel's:

ERP software
Business credit card providers
Travel management platform
Online booking tools
Other providers for example: fuel cards, car rental agencies and mobile phone operators.

These integrations are crucial to automating and optimising travel and expense processes. Therefore all solutions work together to reduce costs.

With Mobilexpense, Recticel spends only €3.2 processing an expense report, versus €5.3 processing an invoice.

Michel Weber

Manager of Shared Services Centres & Transactional Processes at Recticel

Key outcomes

Overall, Recticel's collaboration with Mobilexpense improved efficiency and enhanced global operational alignment. The key outcomes include:

Reduced costs: Expense processing costs were reduced by 40%.
Improved harmony: Mobilexpense integrated with existing tools which created a seamless workflow.
Improved processes: Recticel is now able to manage international complexity more easily than before.

Recticel has remained loyal to Mobilexpense because the platform has always been able to meet their needs and grow with them.

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