Becoming a Certified Configuration Consultant in Concur Expense Professional Edition is a comprehensive enterprise training program designed for SAP Concur Consultants, Expense Management Consultants, Functional Consultants, System Administrators, Configuration Specialists, Implementation Consultants, Business Analysts, Finance Transformation Professionals, Support Engineers, and SAP Partners who want to configure, administer, and optimize SAP Concur Expense Professional Edition.
This course provides practical knowledge of Primary Configuration, Secondary Configuration, Expense Forms, List Management, Payment Types, Expense Types, Ledgers, Policies, Workflows, Audit Rules, Receipt Handling, Travel Allowance, Tax Administration, Company Administration, Control Center, and Joule with SAP Concur Solutions.
Following SAP's official Learning Journey, learners begin by configuring the primary expense-related components before progressing to secondary configuration, administrative tools, and concluding with Joule AI capabilities for SAP Concur Solutions.
Managing corporate expenses efficiently requires accurate configuration, standardized business rules, automated workflows, and effective administration. SAP Concur Expense Professional Edition enables organizations to streamline expense reporting, strengthen compliance, improve financial controls, and simplify reimbursement processes through configurable business rules and intelligent automation.
This course provides a complete learning path for becoming a certified Configuration Consultant in Concur Expense Professional Edition. Participants will learn how to configure primary expense components, manage policies, maintain workflows, administer company settings, configure audit rules, manage receipt handling, maintain travel allowances, configure tax administration, and leverage Joule AI to enhance SAP Concur solutions.
Throughout this course, learners will gain practical implementation skills for configuring and administering enterprise expense management environments while ensuring policy compliance, operational efficiency, and improved user experience.
By the end of this course, participants will be prepared to configure, administer, troubleshoot, and optimize SAP Concur Expense Professional Edition implementations.
This course is designed to support learners preparing for the official SAP Concur Expense Professional Edition Configuration Consultant certification by covering both primary and secondary configuration components, administrative tools, and Joule capabilities.
Participants will gain practical knowledge in:
The course combines conceptual understanding with hands-on configuration practices to prepare learners for real-world SAP Concur implementation and administration projects.
The foundation of every successful SAP Concur Expense implementation begins with configuring the primary expense-related components. These core configuration elements define how expense reports are created, validated, routed for approval, reimbursed, and integrated with organizational policies. Proper primary configuration ensures consistency, improves compliance, and provides users with a streamlined expense management experience.
This module introduces the essential configuration components within SAP Concur Expense Professional Edition, including List Management, Forms and Fields, Payment Types, Expense Types, Ledgers, Workflows, Feature Hierarchies, Policies, and Group Configurations. Learners will understand how these components interact to create an effective and compliant expense management environment.
By the end of this module, learners will be able to configure the primary components required to build a secure, scalable, and policy-driven SAP Concur Expense implementation.
According to the official SAP Learning Journey, this module focuses on configuring primary expense-related components and understanding how their relationships influence behavior, ensure compliance, and deliver an effective expense management environment.
This introductory unit provides an overview of the primary configuration framework within SAP Concur Expense Professional Edition. Participants will understand how configuration components work together to control expense processing, policy enforcement, user experience, and financial compliance.
List Management enables administrators to create and maintain reusable lists that populate drop-down menus and support standardized data entry throughout the expense management process. Proper list configuration improves data consistency and reduces user errors.
Forms and Fields determine the structure of expense reports, cash advances, requests, and other expense-related documents. Learners will configure mandatory fields, validation rules, and field behavior to ensure accurate expense data collection.
Payment Types define how expenses are reimbursed or charged, including corporate cards, cash payments, personal cards, and company-paid transactions. Participants will learn how payment types influence expense processing and financial reporting.
Expense Types classify business expenses while Ledgers determine how expense transactions are recorded for accounting purposes. Learners will configure expense categories and financial mappings that support organizational reporting and compliance.
Workflows automate the routing of expense reports through approval processes based on organizational rules, employee roles, and policy requirements. Participants will configure approval paths that improve efficiency and governance.
Feature Hierarchies define how configuration settings are inherited across organizational structures, enabling administrators to maintain centralized governance while supporting business-specific requirements.
Expense Policies establish the business rules governing expense submissions, approvals, reimbursement limits, and compliance requirements. Learners will configure policies that align with corporate travel and expense guidelines.
Group Configurations allow organizations to apply configuration settings to specific user groups, departments, or business units while maintaining centralized administrative control across the enterprise.
Beyond the core configuration, SAP Concur Expense Professional Edition includes a wide range of secondary configuration components and administrative tools that improve usability, strengthen compliance, enhance reporting, and support day-to-day system administration. These components help administrators manage the expense environment efficiently while providing users with a seamless experience.
This module introduces administrative tools such as Back Office Administration, Company Administration, Processor Queue, Company Tools, Audit Rules, Car Mileage, Delegate Configuration, Email Reminders, Receipt Handling, Travel Allowance, Tax Administration, Cognos Settings, Control Center, and other supporting configuration components.
By the end of this module, learners will understand how secondary configuration enhances the overall effectiveness of SAP Concur Expense Professional Edition and supports enterprise expense management.
According to the official SAP Learning Journey, this module focuses on configuring and administering secondary expense-related components to improve usability, enhance data consistency, and support an effective expense management environment.
Back Office Administrative Tools provide administrators with centralized capabilities to maintain, monitor, and support SAP Concur Expense Professional Edition. Learners will understand how these tools improve operational efficiency and support daily system administration.
Company Administration enables administrators to configure company-wide settings, organizational information, user preferences, and system defaults that define how SAP Concur Expense operates across the enterprise.
The Processor Queue helps administrators monitor, review, and process expense reports awaiting approval, validation, reimbursement, or exception handling. Participants will learn how to manage processing activities efficiently.
Company Tools provide administrative utilities for configuring and maintaining organization-wide settings that support expense management, policy enforcement, and system administration.
Secondary configuration components complement the primary configuration by improving usability, enhancing operational efficiency, and providing additional administrative capabilities across the expense management environment.
Audit Rules automatically validate expense reports against company policies, helping organizations detect policy violations, improve compliance, and reduce manual review efforts.
Car Mileage configuration enables organizations to manage mileage reimbursement rates, calculate travel expenses accurately, and maintain compliance with corporate reimbursement policies.
Delegate Configuration allows authorized users to prepare, submit, and manage expense reports on behalf of other employees while maintaining appropriate security and approval controls.
Email Reminders automate notifications for pending approvals, incomplete expense reports, policy reminders, and other important activities, helping users remain informed and improving process efficiency.
Attendee configuration enables organizations to capture attendee information for business meals, entertainment expenses, and other reimbursable events while supporting compliance and reporting requirements.
Receipt Handling allows organizations to capture, validate, store, and manage expense receipts electronically while supporting audit readiness and improving expense processing efficiency.
Location management enables organizations to configure geographical information that supports tax calculations, expense policies, travel allowances, and regional compliance requirements.
Printed Reports can be customized to meet organizational reporting requirements, improve readability, and support auditing, compliance, and financial documentation.
Tax Administration enables organizations to configure tax rules, rates, recovery options, and jurisdiction-specific tax requirements to ensure accurate tax calculations and regulatory compliance.
Shared Configuration Administrators allow organizations to securely distribute administrative responsibilities while maintaining centralized governance and configuration consistency.
Cognos Settings enable organizations to configure reporting services and business intelligence capabilities for expense analysis, financial reporting, and operational insights.
Test Users allow administrators to validate configurations, test workflows, verify policies, and perform quality assurance activities before deploying changes to production environments.
Training Documentation supports end-user adoption by providing administrators and employees with standardized guidance, process documentation, and learning resources for SAP Concur Expense Professional Edition.
Travel Allowance configuration enables organizations to manage per diem rates, meal allowances, lodging limits, and travel reimbursement policies in accordance with company standards.
Control Center provides centralized administrative capabilities for monitoring system health, managing configurations, reviewing operational activities, and supporting enterprise-wide governance within SAP Concur Expense Professional Edition.
Artificial Intelligence is transforming enterprise expense management by enabling users to complete tasks faster, improve decision-making, and increase productivity. Joule, SAP's AI copilot, extends SAP Concur Solutions by providing intelligent assistance, contextual recommendations, natural language interactions, and task automation to simplify expense management and administrative activities.
This module introduces Joule with SAP Concur Solutions, including its capabilities, business value, activation process, supported use cases, and implementation considerations. Learners will understand how Joule enhances the SAP Concur user experience while supporting finance teams, administrators, approvers, and employees.
By the end of this module, learners will understand how to leverage Joule within SAP Concur Solutions to improve operational efficiency, user productivity, and enterprise expense management.
According to the official SAP Learning Journey, this module focuses on introducing Joule with SAP Concur Solutions, explaining its business value, implementation approach, activation process, common use cases, and frequently asked questions.
This introductory unit explains the purpose of Joule, SAP's AI copilot, and its integration with SAP Concur Solutions. Participants will understand how AI enhances expense management, improves user productivity, and simplifies enterprise finance operations.
Joule delivers intelligent recommendations, contextual guidance, and automation that help organizations improve efficiency, reduce manual effort, and accelerate business processes. Learners will explore the value Joule brings to employees, approvers, administrators, and finance teams.
Organizations must configure and activate Joule appropriately before users can access its AI-powered capabilities. Participants will understand the activation process, prerequisites, administrative considerations, and deployment best practices.
Joule supports a variety of enterprise expense management scenarios by helping users perform tasks faster, obtain contextual information, simplify navigation, and improve decision-making through conversational AI capabilities.
This unit addresses common questions related to Joule implementation, licensing, activation, capabilities, limitations, and enterprise adoption to help organizations successfully introduce AI into SAP Concur Solutions.
Throughout this course, learners will complete hands-on configuration exercises using SAP Concur Expense Professional Edition to build, configure, administer, and optimize enterprise expense management environments.
Participants will perform the following practical activities:
In this capstone project, learners will configure a complete SAP Concur Expense Professional Edition environment for a fictional multinational organization.
Participants will configure primary and secondary expense components, implement workflows, policies, audit rules, company administration, receipt management, travel allowance, tax administration, reporting, and Joule AI capabilities while following enterprise configuration best practices.
The project follows the official Becoming a Certified Configuration Consultant in Concur Expense Professional Edition Learning Journey.
Configure:
Implement:
Configure:
Implement:
Validate:
Upon successful completion of this capstone project, learners will be able to: