How Leading Electric Vehicle Maker Modernized T&E Compliance

From Blind Spots to Control: How Leading Electric Vehicle Maker Modernized T&E Compliance

A global electric vehicle company faced the challenge of scaling transparent, compliant spend auditing across tens of thousands of Travel & Expense (T&E) transactions each month. Its existing solution struggled to keep pace with rapid growth. 

Business Challenge

The company’s biggest challenge was not a lack of data, it was the inability to trust the signals coming from its existing audit solution. AppZen’s keyword based rules generated excessive noise, false positives, and an exponentially growing manual audit burden as transaction volume increased.

• Too many false & low value alerts

• Minimal impact to manual reviews

• Limited analytics, reporting & visibility

• Unsatisfactory support experience

Solution

The company chose Oversight to automate and streamline its T&E audit process. It also opted to implement Receipt Analytics, which leverages AI to surface real risk with precision and context. This fast, high-value deployment covered all T&E transactions, delivering immediate results.

• A comprehensive view of financial & behavioral impact

• Immediate visibility into high-risk patterns at all employee levels

• Intelligently detect non-itemized or altered receipts

• Measurable control and automated resolution - all with an audit trail

Results

The company completed a rapid deployment of Oversight’s T&E analytics. During implementation, Oversight analyzed more than 484,000 transactions totaling over $31M in spend. 

Key Financial Outcomes

• In just seven weeks, Oversight detected over $2M in potential non-compliant expenses, exceeding expectations and outperforming the prior solution’s results.

Real-Time Insight into Employee Behavior

• Out of approximately 9,000 employees reviewed, over 5,000 had violations, providing, for the first time, a complete picture of behavioral trends, repeat offenders, and manager-level patterns. 

Operational & Strategic Outcomes

The leading AI platform for enterprise spend risk management, trusted by global brands to turn financial data into actionable intelligence. Oversight continuously monitors transactions before and after payment, connecting T&E, P-Card, and payables data to deliver real-time prevention, insight, and continuous improvement.

• Increased Efficiency Automating the audit process freed up the finance team to focus on strategic initiatives.

• Reduced Risk Real-time visibility and proactive alerts minimized the risk of fraud and non-compliance.

• Improved Decision-Making Data-driven insights enabled better spend monitoring and policy optimization

Benefits

By implementing Oversight, the company successfully modernized its T&E compliance processes, achieving significant financial and operational improvements. The solution provided real-time visibility, automated workflows, and data-driven insights, enabling the organization to scale with confidence.