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As part of Sysmex’s North American travel program, they utilize a local, in-country TMC in Canada to service their Canadian-based travelers. The Canadian TMC is essential in accessing local fares, complying with regulations, reporting on taxes, and providing Canadian French-speaking agents. With traveler data flowing from multiple sources, Sysmex preferred to consolidate their travel data into a single source to streamline data and reporting.

Ashley Furniture previously relied on static reporting, pulling travel program performance data manually to create reports. This process became tedious and labor-intensive, which ultimately hampered problem-solving efforts for the travel manager. Having to manually create reports also limited visibility to real-time data, where stakeholders were only able to view basic metrics and lacked real-time data insights.

Signify had a specific division comprised of travelers based in Canada that faced the challenge of centralizing North American travel services and data globally for their Canadian-based division. The goal was to provide a single service platform for travelers from Canada and the U.S., establishing a single operational and reporting system that would facilitate streamlined services and travel experiences for their Canadian travelers. Additionally, Signify was required to comply with Canadian laws and regulations while ensuring access to Canadian airline content.

Fox World Travel's client, a global leader in specialty vehicles and access equipment, partnered with Fox to optimize their travel management program. They utilized Fox's expert data analytics team and advanced business intelligence platform, Cognition, to collect and analyze data from multiple sources. The customized dashboards provided valuable insights into booking trends, supplier preferences, and traveler behaviors. This allowed the client to make data-driven adjustments to policies, optimize supplier contracts, enhance the travel experience, and improve budget control and program compliance. The client's travel manager praised the Cognition dashboards for unlocking a new level of program optimization.

The client, based in Texas, has stores located in a region intermittently impacted by hurricanes. They realized they didn't have a good plan in place for locating or assisting displaced employees, and they wanted a more defined and cost-effective lodging solution for the teams doing store assessment and cleanup after a storm.

SAP Concur recommended Fox to a global recruitment company based on our close partnership status and Concur’s confidence in Fox to provide the leadership needed to consolidate the client’s travel across Europe, and eventually the United Arab Emirates and Asia. The company is rapidly growing and undergoing significant multinational expansion. When the company came to Fox, they had no consolidated travel program and were not utilizing a travel management company in the U. S. The travel policy was not mandated and experienced high rates of leakage, therefore the company was finding it difficult to control travel expenses worldwide.