Case Study: Kansas City University achieves greater finance and HR efficiency with Workday Adaptive Planning

Kansas City University boosts efficiency by transforming finance and HR

Kansas City University, a medical and biosciences institution with two campuses, was struggling with outdated finance and HR systems that limited data access, reporting, integrations, and process efficiency as it expanded. The university needed to reduce manual work and administrative burden while improving controls and visibility across finance, payroll, and HR. It used Workday Adaptive Planning alongside Workday tools for financial management, HCM, payroll, time and attendance, expenses, and procure-to-pay.

Workday Adaptive Planning helped Kansas City University streamline onboarding, payroll, monthly close, time tracking, and expense management through automation and better integrations. As a result, the university cut monthly close and payroll run time by 50%, saved 416 hours per year by eliminating data entry for one FTE, reduced unmanaged spend by 37%, increased automated key controls by 90%, reduced audit time by 30%, and improved journal accuracy by 60%.

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