Traveling information system: Operations folks - how are you handling multi-system automation for flights / hotels / events etc.
I run finance operations at a ~400-person company and travel/expense integration is a constant headache.
Current setup: travel booked via Navan (or direct with American Airlines), paid either personally (US employees, reimbursed via Expensify) or via company card (international employees, tracked in Mesh). Navan, Expensify, and Mesh all sync to NetSuite; American Airlines doesn't.
FP&A wants event-level reporting across all these sources.
How do you manage this data and integration within your organization?
The idea is to be able to know the current expenses allocated into the business trip, include flight & hotels, breakdown.
Proposed fix: My thought is to initiate trip/event via a Freshservice (ticketing system) request generating a unique ID, tag that ID on every related transaction across systems, and have bookkeepers manually patch in the American Airlines gaps - giving a single key to roll up costs per event in NetSuite.
I'd like to hear your thoughts anc comments for this process.