The TX Group – a market leader in the Swiss media industry
The TX Group is a leading media company in Switzerland that consolidates around 50 brands, mainly in the media and ad sales sectors (such as Tamedia, Goldbach, JobCloud and SMG). With over 3,000 employees at various sites in Switzerland and other European countries like Serbia, business travel is an important part of the company’s everyday activities.As the TX Group has to manage a significant business travel budget, in mid-2021 it decided to modernize and professionalize its business travel management with the help of TravelPerk.More freedom thanks to simplified trip booking
Before TravelPerk, the TX Group used to book its business trips through a small travel agency. Whilst they valued being in close contact with the travel agency’s employees, many travelers found the booking process too laborious due to two different and rather outdated platforms. There was also another problem:“The adoption and awareness level of the travel agency was relatively low,” says Stefan Thurnheer, Senior Procurement Manager at the TX Group. “We had an excessively high proportion of people booking independently outside of the agency. So people booked via their preferred channels and billed it as expenses for reimbursement.”For these reasons, the company decided to search for a more unified, user-friendly platform, which would not only make it easier for employees to book their trips but would also offer the company an opportunity to manage and optimize its travel budget professionally.With TravelPerk, the TX Group has found a suitable solution for its needs that makes travel booking and travel management easier thanks to detailed reporting functions. With this modern travel platform, the media company’s employees can now book trips themselves at their convenience, without needing to devote time to lengthy correspondence.Modern travel management is a game changer
But let’s take a step back:When Stefan Thurnheer joined the TX Group in 2020, the company was already negotiating with various business travel providers. As the Corporate Procurement department is also responsible for the company’s travel management, Stefan Thurnheer was now responsible for continuing the negotiations and finding a productive solution for the TX Group.Together with Markus Hochholdinger taking care of the technical assessment, Stefan Thurnheer compared the various business travel providers and their services and ultimately selected TravelPerk for its user-friendliness and for commercial and technical reasons.“The look and feel as well as the integration options of TravelPerk were just more modern and advanced,” says Thurnheer. “TravelPerk was the most promising solution, even looking forward five to ten years, because we saw there were always new integrations, new possibilities, and new features.”Thurnheer explained that employees first had to get used to the change, but after familiarizing themselves with the platform, they now value their autonomy and flexibility in the travel booking process.Simplified administration for HR and finance
However, the simplified booking process was only one of the reasons why the TX Group chose TravelPerk. Thurnheer and Hochholdinger were also impressed by the platform’s many integrations, which now simplify work, especially for the company’s HR and finance departments.For example, under Hochholdinger’s leadership, TravelPerk was integrated directly into the HR department’s IT system. As a result, the TravelPerk platform is automatically synchronized with Workday, the TX Group’s HR system, which significantly simplifies administration in the HR department.
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