EADS achieves €5 million annual cost savings with KDS Corporate

When it looked for a way to reduce its travel expenses and to rationalize and unify its overall business travel processes EADS, the European Aeronautic Defense and Space Company, turned to KDS.

Objectives

As part of its enterprise-wide cost saving program EADS sought a travel management solution capable of taking into account its complex organizational structure and the varied of systems and processes of its operating units. Reliability and transparency were key priorities for its travel management department.

Solution

“We wanted a tool that would be easy to implement, need minimal resources, yield a fast return on investment and would greatly
simplify our day-to-day life,” says MichaelDoerr, EADS’s Director of Travel Management. “With KDS Corporate we found a solution that satisfied all these requirements.” Through KDS Corporate, EADS users are now able to make travel reservations from their office PCs, as well as check and change travel itineraries from remote locations. Accessing the KDS solution via the EADS TRAVEL.net Portal, employees can book their flights, hotels and car rentals 24 hours a day, from anywhere in the world.