Case Study: Grand Valley State University achieves faster, more strategic spend management with Workday Adaptive Planning

University officials adapt to changing student priorities with fast and accurate spend management

Grand Valley State University, a Michigan-based public university, needed better visibility and control over rapidly growing spend as online, hybrid, and adult enrollment increased. To support sourcing, procurement, and supplier diversity goals, the university adopted Workday Adaptive Planning-related Workday spend and procurement tools, including Workday Strategic Sourcing and contract management capabilities.

Workday Adaptive Planning and Workday Spend Management helped Grand Valley State University centralize contracts, automate requisitions and audits, and improve supplier onboarding with AI-enabled tools. The results included reducing audit violations, cutting requisition processing from three days to a few hours, increasing monthly RFPs by about 150%, and improving reporting and tracking of supplier diversity.

Grand Valley State University

Heather White

Assistant Director of Procurement Services