SAP Concur implementations are complex under normal circumstances. After a merger or acquisition, they can become significantly more challenging.

Different companies. Different policies. Different ERP systems. Different legal entities. Different employee populations. Different integrations. And often, very little time to bring everything together.

The Complete Guide to SAP Concur Implementations (2026 Edition) provides a practical, structured approach for planning and delivering a successful SAP Concur implementation—particularly when integrating travel, expense, and invoice management following a merger or acquisition.

Rather than focusing only on system configuration, this guide takes an end-to-end program management approach, covering the business, technology, data, integration, organizational, and deployment considerations that can determine whether an implementation succeeds or struggles.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

Understand SAP Concur's core capabilities and how Travel, Expense, Invoice, and Reporting & Analytics fit together
Assess the current state following a merger, acquisition, divestiture, or carve-out
Determine the right future-state deployment strategy, including instance, regional, legal-entity, and employee considerations
Standardize policies and processes while identifying legitimate business exceptions
Develop an effective SAP Concur integration strategy with SAP S/4HANA, ERP platforms, HR systems, corporate card providers, travel systems, and other third-party applications
Plan data migration and establish implementation readiness
Manage configuration, integrations, testing, and organizational change
Prepare for deployment, cutover, go-live, and post-production stabilization
Establish governance, decision-making, risk management, and stakeholder accountability
Identify opportunities to optimize the solution after implementation

The book introduces a six-phase SAP Concur Implementation Framework: Assess, Design, Prepare, Build, Deploy, and Optimize. Each phase provides practical guidance that can be adapted to different organizational structures and M&A scenarios.

You'll also explore how implementation requirements change depending on whether you're dealing with a full acquisition, company merger, business-unit divestiture, global acquisition, or carve-out—and how those differences can affect architecture, data, integrations, policies, testing, and deployment.

Whether you're an IT program manager, SAP professional, finance or travel leader, enterprise architect, implementation consultant, or M&A integration leader, this book is designed to help you move from strategy and assessment to a controlled, successful SAP Concur implementation.

If your organization is implementing SAP Concur—or bringing two organizations together after an acquisition—this guide provides a practical roadmap for making the transition simpler, more structured, and more successful.