Ahead of the January launch of AU’s new enterprise resource planning system (ERP), get to know how Workday will help make your job a little easier.

Here, Adam Christensen, IT asset manager with the Office of Information Technology, explains how Workday will aid their work ordering tech equipment for campus each year and benefit AU staff and faculty who need new computers, monitors, and other equipment.

What excites you about the move to Workday?

I’ve always embraced technology. In middle school in the late ’90s—before iPods existed and streaming became popular—I loaded .mp3 files onto a laptop so I could listen to music on the bus. Years later, I’m excited about how Workday will modernize my work at AU.

Workday will automate many steps for placing orders with Apple or Dell, eliminating current manual processes that take time, like creating purchase orders. Workday will combine current systems. It will eliminate the need to trade emails back and forth and will no longer require the use of several different systems for a single order. It’s more functional.  

We’ll be able to select items from a catalog within the platform, send them to our business operations person for approval, and submit the order electronically—all with just a few clicks. Fewer steps on our end means that community members and offices across campus will get their tech orders more quickly.

Learn more about the upcoming move to Workday here.