CU I&E Submission: CU Non-employee Reimbursements

On average, CU submits and processes over 10,000 non-employee reimbursements each year and, until recently, this was an entirely paper-based process. In an effort to transition the reimbursement form to an electronic format, our team utilized functionality from both Concur and PeopleSoft to completely reimagine how CU reimburses non-employees.

In moving the reimbursement form from paper to Concur, we were able to devise a unique use of the system by creating new report-level fields to capture non-employee payee information. This would allow departments to directly input the name and address of the non-employee while creating the reimbursement in Concur, which we could then leverage to speed up the actual payment process in PeopleSoft.

By merging those unique report-level fields in Concur to PeopleSoft and building upon the existing integrations between the two systems, we were able to utilize PeopleSoft’s Single-Pay functionality. This functionality allowed us to seamlessly process and pay non-employees with no manual intervention and setup from the PSC’s supplier team.

By moving the reimbursement form into Concur and utilizing PeopleSoft’s Single-Pay functionality, we were able to provide faster reimbursements to non-employees and increase business process efficiencies by:

• Completely removing the need for non-employees to be set up as payment suppliers in PeopleSoft, cutting out 1-2 business days of typical processing time;
• Automating the submission and approval process, removing the need for departments to manually route via fax, email, campus mail;
• Utilizing audit rules in Concur to drive compliance with CU policies, reducing the burden on our department approvers and Accounts Payable staff;
• Saving University resources by reducing the number of required paper-based forms;
• Increasing visibility into the process from beginning to end, allowing departments to track the status in real-time through Concur and PeopleSoft

The electronic non-employee reimbursement process had a soft rollout on August 1, 2018 with a full go-live on November 1, 2018. As new functionality emerges from Concur and PeopleSoft, our plan is to expand the use of the non-employee reimbursement process to cover international payees.