npowerHow a move to the Barclaycard card programme gave this energy giant a clear view of their entire UK business spend.

Case study

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Barclaycard’s online system reveals the big pictureBarclaycard recognised the cultural and organisational differences that would make worldwide proposal difficult and it was our alignment to the UK business needs that saw us succeed.

We won the bid with a solution that:

– ensured every purchase order was approved, through the introduction of an online approval workflow

– removed huge amounts of paperwork and time-consuming admin and manual reconciliation

– made costs fully visible to management

– created instantly accessible, real-time receipt data for strategic, VAT compliance and audit purposes.

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To find out how Barclaycard Spend Management could benefit your business, speak to your Relationship Manager today.

Taking control of their card programmeLeading gas and electricity supplier npower realised the card programme they had in place was inefficient and manually intensive.

The decision was taken to find a card issuer who could provide technology that would deliver, enabling coding of the transactions and, more importantly, the automation (both receipt and delivery) of the financial data.

Project objectives:

– automation of processes

– improved spend data outputs

– elimination of control and compliance blind spots.

Greater control of spendThere has also been a shift from IBU corporate cards to CBU corporate cards for frequent travellers and executives as a result of the spend management system, giving npower a single view of all UK business spend.

Spend efficiencies in actionIn the six months since implementation, Barclaycard’s online system has resulted in:

Pluscorporate card issued accounts1,000

80-90%A reduced reconciliation workload of

We were looking not only to review our card programme but to create efficiencies in our processes to support organisational changes. The consultative approach from Barclaycard helped us to design a solution to meet our business needs and deliver a card programme, backed by Barclaycard Spend Management, which gives us better visibility and control of our spend.

Gareth Williams Category Managernpower

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