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Open booking, where employees can book outside the company’s official travel program, had been steadily growing.
Part of the momentum is still down to more sophisticated technology, so direct bookings can be captured, with the likes of TripLink, part of travel and expense platform SAP Concur, and Traxo, playing a part.
However, the pandemic may be starting to impact this as Covid-19 cases still spiral in some destinations. Now, SAP Concur is exerting more control, by adding new compliance features to TripLink, which it said can help travel managers steer employees in the right direction when booking.
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President Joe Biden is set to sign an executive order on Monday imposing tougher restrictions on government procurement practices in an effort to increase purchases of American products, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The move is one step toward fulfilling the Buy American campaign to focus on strengthening domestic manufacturing. The policies include tightening government procurement rules to accomplish three goals: making it more difficult for federal agencies to purchase imported products, revising the definition of American-made products and raising local-content rules.
The executive order includes provisions to give small and mid-size businesses better access to information to bid for government contracts, the article said. One of Biden’s senior officials said a goal of the Buy American policy is to strengthen the US supply chain after the Covid-19 disruption revealed weaknesses in the system.