Recommender systems ft. SHAP — Making business travel approval easier
<p>As a travel management company (TMC), Egencia offers B2B customers travel management tools, among which approval is an important one. More than 50% of Egencia’s customers use approval for at least one type of business trip, i.e., have at least a configuration requiring approval for a trip, and it allows customers to verify that their employees follow their company travel policies.</p>
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<h1>Basic trip approval functionality</h1>
<p>Let us assume a travel manager decides to activate approval for all the employees who book an international flight more expensive than $500. In this case:</p>
<p>Every time a user books an international flight above this amount, say $550, the booking is finalized only once their approver approves it. The approver might ask the user to change this flight and in this case the booking is rejected.</p>
<p>If an employee of this company books a domestic flight of any amount or an international flight that costs less than the configured threshold, say $400, Egencia will confirm the booking at once without the need for approval.</p>
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