Case Study: Centennial College achieves faster reimbursements and streamlined expense management with Emburse's Chrome River EXPENSE

Centennial College - Customer Case Study

Centennial College, a growing Ontario community college with expanding travel and corporate card use, faced slow, paper-based travel requests and a home-grown expense system that required manual entry and approvals. These processes created double data entry, lengthy reimbursements (often over a month), and added strain on Accounts Payable. To modernize, Centennial selected Emburse’s Chrome River EXPENSE to streamline and scale its expense management.

Emburse implemented Chrome River EXPENSE with mobile receipt capture (SNAP), automatic routing and policy checks, and integrations with the college’s Ellucian Banner ERP and corporate credit cards. The solution eliminated manual data entry and reduced report returns, cut reimbursement times from 4–8 weeks to about two weeks, sped reconciliation via automatic card matching, and enabled quick ACH payments—freeing AP to focus on strategic work and improving the traveler and approver experience.

Centennial College

Isaac Salameh

Finance Systems & Project Management Consultant