Asda saves £200,000 with electronic expenses
Supermarket outsources expense management to GlobalExpense in effort to ditch paper-based system.

The UK's second largest supermarket, Asda said it will save 200,000 a year by moving to outsourced electronic expense management systems.
The outsourcing contract with supplier, GlobalExpense was signed in March 2007 and in development since October 2006 through a pilot scheme. First rolled out in March 2007 to office staff in Asda House and clothing office George House, the system will be expanded to 2,500 users, including all store-based staff by the end of August.
Mike Hazelgrave, Asda Reward Manager said: "We estimate that we will save approximately 200,000 a year by using GlobalExpense's employee expense management process.
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