Case Study: Kindred achieves a 751% ROI in less than two months with Workday Adaptive Planning

Kindred Group manages business complexity with cloud planning

Kindred, a large U.S. home care provider, struggled with a complex budgeting and reporting process across hundreds of locations, driven by acquisitions, changing Medicare reimbursement rules, and spreadsheet-based planning. Its nurse-led budget managers found the process time-consuming and frustrating, and finance teams lacked a flexible way to manage rollups, version control, and organizational changes using Microsoft Excel and legacy tools.

Workday implemented Workday Adaptive Planning to simplify budgeting and forecasting, and Kindred deployed it in three months for 500 users. The solution improved visibility and engagement, enabled local-market forecasting, and cut the budgeting cycle from about five months to three, freeing up two months of finance time for strategic work. Workday Adaptive Planning also helped Kindred achieve a 751% ROI in less than two months, with nearly $350,000 in annual ROI over three years and more than $1 million in savings.

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