Workday Adaptive Planning Offers a Single Version of Truth

Bob Evans recently sat down with Ray Alwani, Director, Business Systems Process and Strategy, ENMAX, to talk about how the company has seen significant shifts in time spent on business planning with Workday Adaptive Planning. Alwani explains that with Workday Adaptive Planning, ENMAX was able to cut a 10-hour-long process down to just 15 minutes. Ray offers insights into how Workday Adaptive has contributed to the forecasting abilities that empower ENMAX, and how the software offers flexibility and insight into planning.

How Workday Adaptive Helps ENMAX with Forecasting Capabilities

The Big Themes:

Workday Adaptive Planning helps ENMAX discover a single version of the truth: With this software, everyone in the company is working off the same data set that can be used for whatever purpose is necessary.
A single view across three applications: ENMAX utilizes Workday Adaptive Planning, Workday HCM, and Workday Financials in congruence, which has removed constraints associated with effective planning.
Flexible solutions that empower users: Workday Adaptive Planning can be easily edited or updated and provides users with the information they need, when they need it, to do their jobs effectively.

The Big Quote: “Adaptive, that was a real game changer for us, because nobody really questioned the data anymore. There was one source of truth, it didn’t matter if you wanted to know what was going to happen next month, or in 2024. You went to the same place, the same version, and everyone edited a single version. So that was really key to us, because now we’re able to take all that information disseminated out to the different business areas, and they can use it for whatever purpose they need. The second change was, we have the same characteristics on the data for both our actuals and our plan. And that’s one of the benefits of being on Workday for both planning and financials. So the data that’s actually reflective of historicals plus board looking looks and feels the same. And so it’s a little bit easier to interpret. And so that’s been very helpful for us as well.”