Case Study: BCD Travel achieves automated VAT recovery and increased compliance with Blue dot

Automation Helps Global Travel Powerhouse Address VAT Challenges

BCD Travel, the world’s third-largest travel management company (headquartered in the Netherlands, operating in 109 countries with $27.1 billion in 2018 sales and 13,800 employees), faced limited insight into VAT/GST recovery and compliance on domestic and foreign T&E invoices. With multiple expense systems and volumes too high for manual audits, BCD Travel sought a technology-based, low-touch solution with strong reporting and compliance capabilities and selected Blue dot to address the challenge.

Blue dot deployed an automated VAT recovery platform that integrated via SaaS with BCD Travel’s SAP Concur and MobileXpense systems, enabling seamless data extraction and validation with minimal internal involvement. The Blue dot solution delivered an optimized VAT reclaim process, higher compliance and control through full invoice-to-record matching, detailed T&E reporting, a fully digital audit trail and real-time analytics, and a combined platform BCD can offer to its clients.

BCD Travel

Marcel de Wit

Vice President Global Tax & Treasury