Case Study: Stearns County achieves 50%+ faster expense processing and stronger compliance with Emburse Chrome River

Stearns County optimizes spend management with Emburse

Stearns County, a government agency serving 150,000+ residents with about 1,000 employees, struggled with a paper-based (later SharePoint) expense process that required extensive manual AP audits, lacked mobile usability and adequate reporting, and could not enforce complex government per diem, mileage, union or IRS rules. To address these challenges they selected Emburse and its enterprise expense solution, Emburse Chrome River.

Emburse configured Chrome River with custom rules to enforce compliance and automate audits, cutting AP’s expense processing time by more than 50%, improving spend control, and speeding reimbursements through mobile submissions and email approvals. The implementation increased user satisfaction and delivered measurable time savings and risk reduction attributed to Emburse.

Stearns County

Joe Greshowak

Accounting Supervisor