See how Upstream can solve your most pressing challenges
We understand the complexity of managing travel and expense data across multiple systems. Upstream by Cornerstone unifies booking, expense, ERP, and HR data into one platform, helping you eliminate silos, reduce waste, and uncover opportunities for savings and compliance. Our tailored solutions address the challenges unique to your business, giving you clarity and control where it matters most.
Expense Data Configuration
Gain complete visibility into T&E spend by reconciling data across credit cards, booking, reservation, and expense data. Upstream eliminates mismatches, highlights waste, and helps finance leaders control costs with confidence.
- Properly optimize setup and configuration of your expense platform
- Reconcile and audit credit card, booking, and expense data
- Detect duplicate or mismatched transactions automatically
- Identify and categorize non-essential or potential wasteful spend
- Highlight spend outliers for corrective action
Learn More: Spend, Data Insights
Travel Program Management
Upstream quickly delivers real-time performance breakdowns by city pair, category, class of service, and more. With fast, detailed vendor insights, travel managers gain the leverage they need to understand and negotiate stronger contracts and optimize sourcing strategies.
- Get instant visibility into vendor performance by city pair, category, fare class, room type, and more
- Surface upsell, ancillary, and hidden costs for a true total spend picture
- Identify savings opportunities with speed and accuracy
- Track compliance, including travel policy adherence, CO₂ emissions, Sunshine Act, and SOC 2 requirements
- Address leakage and off-channel bookings
Learn More: Data Management, Data Insights
Travel Operations
Simplify the complexity of day-to-day travel management with automation. From unused tickets to schedule changes, policy compliance, and NDC adoption, automate workflows that keep travel programs efficient and resilient.
- Monitor policy compliance and exceptions
- Automate schedule change handling
- Track and recover unused ticket value
- Manage the transition to NDC booking and post-ticketing support
- Centralize workflow automation for corporates and TMCs
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Procurement & Supplier Management
Make smarter sourcing decisions with clean, consolidated travel data. Upstream powers RFPs, vendor scorecards, and benchmarking data, helping procurement and travel managers uncover new savings opportunities.
- Analyze spend across categories and departments
- Support RFPs and vendor negotiations with clean data
- Compare program performance against industry benchmarks
- Monitor and audit vendor performance and contract compliance
Learn More: Data Insights, Spend
Leakage Detection
See the full picture of your program’s performance. Upstream identifies bookings made outside approved channels, quantifies the cost impact, and provides insights to bring spend back under management.
- Identify off-channel bookings across regions and programs
- Quantify leakage costs to protect negotiated discounts
- Surface root causes for improved policy alignment and compliance strategies
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Unify Data Silos
Stop reconciling data across disconnected systems. Upstream integrates HR, ERP, booking, and expense sources into one trusted platform, giving organizations a single source of truth for travel and spend management.
- Connect HR, ERP, Expense, and Booking systems
- Eliminate manual reconciliation and data silos
- Provide a single, trusted source of truth for analytics
- Expanded data models
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Forecasting & Budgeting
Bring clarity and confidence to financial planning. Upstream leverages historical and live data to help you forecast spend, model budgets, and inform smarter business decisions.
- Predict T&E spend using historical and live data
- Model departmental or project-level budgets
- Support finance and leadership in strategic planning decisions
Learn More: Spend, Data Insights
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