KDS Corporate

KDS Corporate is an On Demand Travel & Expense Solution providing a ‘one stop shop’ for corporate travel with support for low cost airlines, national rail, Eurostar, non GDS hotels and non GDS car rental. Content is delivered in an integrated display to assist travel managers and corporate travelers to see the total cost of travel and make a realistic assessment of alternative fares and modes of transport

KDS Corporate enables companies to implement their own Travel & Expense management strategy by offering complete control. The solution supports consistent policy enforcement, offers quick and powerful travel inventory search options, and provides customized expense reporting configurations that simplify accounting settings and reporting. Internally, companies can be certain their travel-related spend is being used wisely and, where necessary, can adjust KDS Corporate to optimize supplier relationships.

In addition, by unifying Travel & Expense management in a single system, companies can minimize their total cost of ownership while they maximize the adoption rate of the solution.

Based on the most innovative application service provider (ASP) technology, KDS Corporate provides users with the best service to manage their travel related spend over the Internet. Using Web 2.0 for our second generation of Travel & Expense management solution is based on a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This architecture will help KDS to respond more quickly and cost-effectively to the changing market conditions. Moreover, KDS Corporate new architecture provides ultimate security guarantees, memory management, and exception handling. With KDS, users' experience is closer to desktop applications: they have access to an intuitive, fast and reliable service

KDS Corporate Benefits

With one eye on client needs and another on emerging trends in the market, KDS Corporate was developed to make expense management easier, more accurate and an overall benefit to the business. KDS Corporate includes:

Advanced Day-to-Day Functionality

Automated expenses reconciliation with travel services;

Credit card charges importing;

Hotel e-folio feed;

Payroll and in-house reimbursement;

Multiple project code allocation;

Real-time business rules at the front-end to help enforce corporate policy.

Cross-border Capabilities

KDS knows that as businesses become global, expense management can become even more difficult. Using KDS Corporate can eliminate a great number of barriers that have complicated cross-border expense tracking in the past:

Daily and historical currency exchange rates allow for regional pricing comparisons;

Multi-currency reporting, supported by a normalizing base currency, means that the head office can receive expense reports from abroad without the hassle of manual currency conversion;

Country-specific mileage calculators help keep accurate count from region to region (i.e. as personal mileage rates vary according to the UK’s Inland Revenue, or are calculated by different standards such as horsepower in Belgium).

Business Operations

KDS Corporate Travel & Expense reporting features enables KDS customers to drill down into the detailed spending data required by managers to optimize their policies and contracts. Keeping a full and easily mapped audit trail is essential to operating smoothly in an increasingly tight regulatory environment:

Reporting capabilities are a key element of KDS Corporate, which provides intuitive and flexible report writing as a standalone solution and also integrates with proven Business Intelligence tools;

Workflow tracking and multi-level approvals identify and help prevent bottlenecks in the reimbursement process;

VAT reclaim assistance helps UK companies process and meet tax obligations;

Sarbanes-Oxley requirements are addressed with self-monitoring features such as fraud detection, detection of duplicate claims, and a comprehensive audit trail.

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