Case Study: Wellcome Sanger Institute achieves faster, more accurate planning with Workday Adaptive Planning

New flexibility for Wellcome Sanger Institute fuels COVID-19 fight-back

Wellcome Sanger Institute needed a faster, more flexible way to manage planning and forecasting as it shifted resources to support COVID-19 research. Using Workday Adaptive Planning, the institute wanted better scenario planning, clearer assumptions, and easier access to accurate data to improve day-to-day financial decision-making.

Workday Adaptive Planning, implemented with deployment partner ICit, centralized planning and automated budget creation and cost allocation, giving the financial planning team and research managers a simpler way to collaborate. The result was faster, more efficient forecasting and scenario analysis, with leadership able to make spending decisions more quickly and accurately while better understanding the financial impact of COVID-19-related changes.

Wellcome Sanger Institute

Allen Swann

Head of Commercial Finance