For companies with 1,000+ business trips a year
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Business travel management · Travel & Expense

Boost efficiency
Cut costs
Happier employees
Digital processes

Realise savings of €100,000+ a year – with the right business-travel strategy.

Geschäftsreise – Triebwerk im Abendlicht
10–20% savings potential
25+ years of experience
End‑to‑End travel solution
Experience from projects with, among others
Symrise Bayer AG Kuka PowerCo Trumpf Vontobel Hella DFG Carl Zeiss Burda Medien Fresenius Medical Care Flughafen Köln/Bonn Horváth & Partner GIZ SSB Brenntag Exyte Innomotics
The reality

Grown over time. Never truly managed.

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The journey from booking to reimbursement on business trips is rarely designed — it's usually a grown patchwork of travel agencies and booking channels, one-off contracts, outdated travel policies and inefficient software. The whole company feels the result.

Management

No cost transparency

Spend is scattered across dozens of providers and opaque pricing models. No consolidated data, no basis for control, no use of purchasing power.

Finance

Manual, month after month

Expense processing and receipt checks by hand. Compliance breaches surface — if at all — only in the audit, months too late.

Travellers

Frustration, not care

Cumbersome booking, paying hotel costs out of pocket, weeks of waiting for reimbursement, incorrect settlements.

The company

Doesn't scale

What works with 200 travellers stalls at 2,000: fragmented rates, ignored policy, no clear owner.

For the leadership
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Travel costs as an afterthought?
That's exactly what's expensive.

Travel & expense often rides along in C-parts procurement or HR. No one negotiates it strategically, no one manages it, no one owns it. And the less attention it gets, the more unchecked the costs run.

No line item costs as much as the one nobody takes seriously.

Yet travel & expense is one of the largest uncontrolled spend categories, with a direct lever on margin – for the CFO, an open flank on the balance sheet.

Your savings potential · Calculator
€200,000 – €400,000
per year · at €2,000,000 travel volume

Rough range based on 10–20% hidden costs of travel & expense spend. The reliable figure comes out of the travel & expense check.

Symptom or cause?

You feel the symptom.
The cause runs deeper.

What looks like a tool or convenience problem is almost always an unsolved process and structure problem.

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Symptom
Cause
The travel budget is regularly exceeded
no real-time control, no pre-trip approval with budget check.
Employees ignore the travel policy
unfriendly policy, no enforcement in the booking process, lack of user focus.
Employees are dissatisfied
cumbersome booking, paying travel costs out of pocket, long waits for reimbursement, missing self-service and mobile features, no end-to-end digital travel process.
Audit & compliance findings catch you off guard
no rule-based checks; breaches become visible too late.
The expensive software is barely used – no ROI
implemented purely technically, never along the process. Efficiency never realised.
Dissatisfaction with provider performance and cost (e.g. tool providers, travel agency, airlines)
no active provider and contract management, no regular performance and cost review.
No negotiating position with airlines, hotels & travel agencies
no consolidated volume reporting. You don't know your own demand.
What you actually want

A tool won't fix a process problem.
A strategy will.

You don't want another system — you want results. We cover the entire travel & expense spectrum: strategy, providers, technology and governance.

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Our capabilities

Sourcing & travel-agency strategy

Selecting, negotiating and managing travel agencies and suppliers – your volume as leverage.

Process optimisation

End-to-end from booking to settlement: continuous instead of silos and media breaks.

Tool & system advisory

Vendor-independent selection of the platform that fits your processes – not the other way round.

T&E tool optimisation

Finally getting an existing tool implementation to work: e.g. SAP Concur, Amadeus Cytric, Perk, Navan and many more.

Steering troubled projects safely to the finish

Strategic advice and hands-on project leadership in the SAP Concur space — from concept through configuration and go-live to training. We bring stalled projects to the finish, audit-proof and cost-effective.

Travel management services

Operational travel management as an outsourced service: we handle booking, support and management when internal capacity or know-how is missing.

About TCG Group
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The neutral mind between you and the market.

We don't sell software tools and we're not a travel agency. We're the independent authority that sets up travel & expense as an integrated governance model and represents your interests towards vendors, travel agencies and suppliers.

From assessment through strategy to operational project leadership: over 25 years of experience that's often missing internally – so plans turn into measurable results.

Neutral expertise

Vendor-independent – we don't sell licences, we represent you.

Gap analysis & target picture

Weak-point analysis and a clear target picture instead of gut feeling.

Operational project leadership

Interim management and delivery until it runs in everyday operations.

No slideware consulting

A pragmatic approach focused on measurable results.

The team
Tom Drexler
Tom Drexler
Managing Partner

Business-travel expert, consultant, strategist, internet pioneer and AI enthusiast who thinks pragmatically and delivers tangible results for his clients.

Jens Vongehr
Jens Vongehr
Managing Partner

Combines strategic advice with hands-on project leadership — from technical configuration through go-live to compliance, pragmatic and solution-oriented. Knows every relevant tool inside out.

Jürgen Büchy
Jürgen Büchy
Managing Partner

Experienced in leading large, complex organisations, seasoned in radical strategic realignment and marked by strong entrepreneurial thinking.

Sebastian von Stein
Sebastian von Stein
Associate Partner

Expert in corporate travel & expense, travel technology and process optimisation, with over 20 years' experience selecting, implementing and globally rolling out international T&E solutions.

Typical results

It wasn't the software that solved it.
It was company-wide end-to-end processes.

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Tool adoption
From unused system to accepted solution
Nobody uses a poorly implemented SAP Concur solution that isn't tailored to the client's needs. With clean processes and a precise configuration, it becomes the accepted standard.
Procurement & negotiation
Travel volume as leverage at the negotiating table
Fragmented one-off contracts become bundled volume – better airline and hotel rates while traveller satisfaction rises. Instead of many small deals, you negotiate from a position of strength, with solid volume data as the basis and clear control across all suppliers.
Scaling
Growth without extra headcount in finance
A scalable travel & expense architecture absorbs rapid growth instead of requiring extra processing roles with every new location.

Typical result patterns from TCG projects. We're happy to share specific references and figures in a personal conversation.

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Travel & Expense check-up

Clarity first. Investment after.

Instead of blindly investing in the next tool or major project, we create clarity first. The easy way in, in three steps:

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Book a discovery call

Pick a 20-minute slot online that suits you.

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Have the conversation

Your current situation, your challenges. We pinpoint where the potential lies.

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Start the travel & expense check

If it's a fit for both sides, we start the travel & expense check. If not, you leave with clear insights.

Book a discovery call 20 minutes · free · no obligation · for companies with 1,000+ trips a year
FAQ

Any questions?

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What is TCG's 360° readiness check?

A structured analysis of your entire business-travel and settlement process — processes, travel policies, providers and technology. The result is a solid basis for decisions, with concrete starting points for savings and efficiency.

How much can be saved on travel & expense?

Typically 10–20% of travel & expense spend — through bundled volume, better contracts, end-to-end processes and consistent governance. The reliable figure comes out of the travel & expense check.

Which companies is TCG worthwhile for?

For companies with around 1,000+ business trips a year — from mid-market and the public sector to large corporations.

Does TCG sell software or is it a travel agency?

No. The Travel Consulting Group is an independent consultancy — not a travel agency and not a software vendor. We represent your interests towards vendors, travel agencies and suppliers.

How does the first contact work?

Via a free, no-obligation discovery call of around 20 minutes. If it's a fit for both sides, the travel & expense check follows.

How experienced is the TCG team?

Over 25 years' experience in corporate travel management. TCG is a member of the VDR (German Business Travel Association) and the DRV (German Travel Association).

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We'll sort out everything else in the discovery call.

20 minutes, no obligation at all.

Book a discovery call
Book a discovery call