Travel Updates
Travel Training
Please contact Travel.Services@wwu.edu or call 360-650-3341 for training.
Announcements
Mileage Rate Increase
Personal Vehicle Mileage rate increase effective January 1, 2025: $0.70/mile
New partnership with Collegiate Travel Planners (CTP)
WWU Travel Services is excited to announce that effective January 1, 2023 we began partnering with CTP, a global leader in travel management. WWU will continue to utilize the Concur Booking Tool to make travel reservations and leverage supplier contracts.
Concur Resources
- Terminology Quick Sheet
- Getting Started with Concur
- Using the Concur Mobile App
- Adding a Delegate
- Approver Quick Sheet
- Create a TA Request
- Create a Blanket TA Mileage Request
- Create an Expense Report
- Create a Mileage or Stand-Alone Expense Report
- Delegate Basics
- How to Split Fund (Allocations)
- Previewer Role
- Set Alternate Approval Flow
- New! How to Add Meals Per Diem
Concur Replaces TEM
Advantages of the new travel system include mobile access, built-in policy compliance, transparent approval routing, improved reporting, and risk mitigation. Travelers can take photos of receipts on-the-go and submit electronic itineraries and expenses to auto-populate reports.
Why was TEM replaced?
Ellucian, TEM’s vendor, stopped providing updates to the application in 2016 as they transitioned to offer a different software opportunity. Since then, the support they provide Western for TEM has been steadily diminishing and is now expected to be completely unavailable by the end of 2020. Western needed to make a change.
About SAP Concur
After an extensive RFP process, vendor demos and campus feedback, Western selected SAP Concur to replace TEM. Based in Bellevue, WA, Concur was founded in 1993 and currently partners with more than 40,000 clients worldwide, including over 400 institutions of higher education. SAP Concur offers Western a best-in-class platform that connects travel, expense, and risk management into one powerful solution.