Title
Contract No. REQ-0000765 effective September 1, 2024 with Slalom for Finance Operations Assistance for a cost not to exceed $1,000,000.00 for one year
Body
Agenda of: August 28, 2024
Item No.: 2024-265
Amount: $1,000,000.00
TO: The Honorable
Board of Directors
Great Lakes Water Authority
FROM: Suzanne R. Coffey, P.E.
Chief Executive Officer
Great Lakes Water Authority
DATE: August 23, 2024
RE: Contract No. REQ-0000765 effective September 1, 2024 with Slalom for Finance Operations Assistance for a cost not to exceed $1,000,000.00 for one year
MOTION
Upon recommendation of Nicolette Bateson, Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer, Board of Directors of the Great Lakes Water Authority authorizes the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to enter into Contract No. REQ-0000765 effective September 1, 2024 with Slalom for Finance Operations Assistance for a cost not to exceed $1,000,000.00 for one year; and authorizes the CEO to take such action as may be necessary to accomplish the intent of this vote.
BACKGROUND
GLWA has successfully launched Workday as its ERP. The companion effort to that launch is the now the intensive effort to rollout Workday Adaptive Planning (formerly known as Adaptive Insights). This effort will directly source data from the general ledger with added analytical and reporting capacity to replace many individual Excel, Word, PDF and other files to create the annual budget document, annual comprehensive financial report and eventually in-source the cost of service study. In addition, the organization's ability to perform advanced analysis and performance indicators will be significantly enhanced. The flexibility of Workday and Workday Adaptive brings significant opportunities, but is one that also requires coordination and governance to successfully deploy. This is occurring at a time where there is significant concern related to staff burnout from multiple years of the ERP and enterprise asset m...
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