The challenge
National Oilwell Varco (NOV), a global equipment, components and services provider for the oil and gas industry, needed travel spend oversight, a centralized form of payment, consolidated data and traveler location visibility. Because each division handled travel independently, NOV didn’t have an overarching policy or a true measure of compliance. This not only prevented NOV from obtaining lower supplier pricing, but also meant that in the U.K. alone, it had a variety of travel policies, forms of payment, visa/passport providers and agencies/booking sources.