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Lake County supervisors hear update on Workday ERP; go-live set for July 1 amid data and training concerns
Summary
County Auditor-Controller Genevieve Harrington told the Board of Supervisors that Lake County will go live on Workday July 1 for finance and HR after a January 2025 contract; supervisors and fiscal partners pressed for a deep-dive on data conversion, treasury reports and school integrations before the launch.
Genevieve Harrington, Lake County auditor-controller and county clerk, told the Board of Supervisors that the county will move forward with a July 1 go-live for Workday, the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system the county contracted in January 2025.
Harrington said the county selected Workday after an RFP process led with consultants and that the implementation will use a "big bang" approach, bringing finance and human capital management online together because the legacy system was fragile. "Once we started, it was basically kind of crumbling beneath us," she said, arguing the county needed to address finance and HR at once.
Why it matters: the switch affects payroll, grant accounting, procurement and timekeeping for all county employees and several external partners. Harrington said timekeeping, grant tracking, asset tracking and procurement modules are largely built and that the system enforces approval thresholds and reduces multiple manual data entries that now drive…
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