Case Study: Spectrum Brands achieves 72% auto-approvals and 3-hour expense approvals with AppZen

How Spectrum Brands streamlined audits with 72% auto-approvals

Spectrum Brands, a global leader in home essentials, struggled with limited compliance and manual expense reviews—managers inspected only about 6% of receipts and expense approvals often took 2–3 weeks while relying solely on Concur. Accounting Supervisor Nicole Wolff sought a solution to improve consistency and compliance and selected AppZen’s Expense Audit to automate and tighten the company’s expense controls.

AppZen integrated with SAP Concur and was rolled out globally in weeks, using configurable models from the AppZen AppStore (e.g., duplicate detection, personal expense detection, cashline validation) to automate reviews. The deployment cut approval time from weeks to about 3 hours, achieved a 72% auto-approval rate within the first year, and reclaimed over 600 working hours annually, enabling the audit team to focus on analysis and model tuning.

Spectrum Brands

Nicole Wolff

Accounting Supervisor for T&E