Why Consolidated, Real-Time T&E Platforms Are Replacing Legacy Stacks

Finance leaders are scrutinizing operational spend with greater precision than ever. Where is margin leaking? How quickly can committed versus actual T&E spend be seen? How much finance capacity is tied up in manual review instead of strategic analysis?

In many organizations, travel, booking, expense, and corporate card tools were layered over time to support growth and expansion. The result is often a fragmented environment that limits visibility, delays reporting, and increases reconciliation burden.

As forecasting expectations rise and compliance standards tighten, these gaps become more costly. Travel and expense is one of the most frequent and widely distributed cash outflows in the business, yet it often lacks real-time financial control.

This session examines the findings of a November 2025 Forrester Consulting Total Economic Impact™ study commissioned by Navan, with a focus on the financial implications for modern finance teams. You will see how consolidating travel, expense, and corporate card into a single platform can strengthen control, reduce leakage, free up finance resources, and generate measurable 3-year ROI.

Why This Webinar Matters Right Now

• Finance teams are auditing operational spend for measurable ROI and payback timelines
• Travel and expense represents high-volume, distributed cash outflow with limited real-time visibility
• Multiple systems create reconciliation complexity and reporting lag
• Manual auditing processes consume high-value finance resources
• Reactive policy enforcement increases compliance risk and approval fatigue
• Forecast accuracy depends on faster, consolidated spend visibility

What You Will Learn

• How the Forrester TEI methodology evaluates financial benefits, costs, and risk
• The composite organization model used in the study and how to benchmark against your environment
• The drivers behind the reported 376% ROI, $7.2M net present value, and sub-six-month payback period
• How direct travel savings are achieved through negotiated rates, broader inventory access, and dynamic policy controls
• How automation reduces manual expense submission, auditing time, and reconciliation effort
• Why policy enforcement at the point of transaction strengthens governance and reduces leakage
• How real-time visibility into committed and actual spend improves cash flow management and forecasting confidence
• The financial impact of eliminating redundant legacy tools and vendor overlap
• What implementation requires from a systems and finance operations perspective

Who Should Attend

• Chief Financial Officers
• Controllers and Assistant Controllers
• VP of Finance and Finance Directors
• Corporate Accounting and AP Leaders
• Finance Operations and Shared Services Teams
• Procurement leaders partnering with finance on T&E strategy

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