While business travel itself can be both rewarding and challenging, nothing makes an employee’s eyes glaze over more quickly than the thought of the post trip expense processing. Time-consuming, rife with potential for error, it can be a hotbed for both inadvertent and deliberate fraud that can lead to severe consequences for individuals and businesses.
A rapidly changing workforce, integrated with the advent of the digital era, is shifting the way procurement operates. Younger generations entering the private sector workforce are proposing improvements to current processes that questions the status quo. For the first time in modern age, five generations are present at work –Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials, and Gen Z.
Uniforms and workwear are imperative to a broad range and scope of businesses, likely it already exists in your spend management strategy (if not, it should). After all, the right workwear, for the right employee can impact employee retention, up-time and overall productivity. Until now OMNIA Partners has only offered rental opportunities to fulfill your spend needs. That's why we have partnered with ServiceWear Apparel to add flexibility to our portfolio by including opportunities to save on your uniform and workwear programs through ownership - thus ensuring that every fit is tailored to your exact needs.
Through OMNIA Partners, Private Sector Travel Management Program, ALTOUR shares best-in-class hotel sourcing practices.
Negotiating hotel discounts and optimizing savings is among the biggest challenges companies with midsize travel programs face.
In its infancy, group purchasing organizations showed little to no attention to travel as a category. However, over the years the landscape has changed and travel management services have since become sought after contracts. Within the travel vertical alone, OMNIA Partners has seen an 8% to 20% savings for both private and public members!
Originally posted by Direct Travel on the DT Navigator blog.
Every year, GBTA Convention is a great place to learn, network and find new ways to gain more clarity in your travel management program. Now that the largest annual gathering of business travel professionals in the world has come to a close, we want to share with you our notes from an insightful education session by our partner – OMNIA Partners.
Millennials are the next generation to shape the future of procurement, travel management and business. Defined as people born between 1982 and 2000, millennials represent more than one quarter of the nation’s population, making them the largest generation in US history. By 2020, over half of the workforce will be made up of millennials, and their different mindset, habits and preferences can have an impact on your company’s bottom line.
When thinking about your car rental program and provider, does fleet management come to mind as a major consideration? If it doesn’t, then you are not alone. It’s a topic I bring up a lot when talking about car rental with new members, so I wanted to take a few minutes to tell you why fleet management should be important to you too.
