Cornerstone is a multi-year strategic initiative to modernize, unify, and simplify our finance, human resources and payroll, procurement, student information, and expense management systems and processes. This newsletter provides updates on the projects within the Cornerstone portfolio.
TRAVEL AND EXPENSE
New System Fully Automates Travel and Expenses — In the first three weeks since its July 1 launch, Concur Travel and Expense—Rutgers’ new, mobile-friendly travel and expense management system—processed and paid nearly 1,000 expense reports and saw more than 675 trips booked. Training videos are posted on the Concur Travel and Expense website, and additional training sessions are scheduled for the start of the academic year. For more updates on the project, go to the Travel and Expense website.
STUDENT EXPERIENCE IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVE (SEII)
Student Experience Improvement Initiative Prepares for Business Process Review — The SEII project is advancing toward the start of a business process review (BPR) for the university’s Student Information System (SIS). The review will help the project team understand current business and system processes, design future-state processes, and prepare for implementation of Oracle Student Management, which is a technology solution that aids university administrators with setting up, tracking, and managing academic information. To find out more, read the full SEII story here.
SCARLET JOURNEY
Taking Stock: Counting Accomplishments — With a busy first half of 2024 in the rear-view mirror, the Scarlet Journey project team is reflecting on its list of recent accomplishments. After helping the university to transition to the Common Application in August 2023, which yielded a record-breaking 220,000 undergraduate application, the team has continued to make important enhancements to expand the way Rutgers uses the Common App, including a recently implemented feature allowing transfer students to submit a Self-Reported Academic Record. Read the full story here.
HUMAN RESOURCES/PAYROLL TRANSFORMATION
Next Phase of Work Ramping up — In preparation for future-state business process review (BPR), the HR/P Transformation project team is working on prerequisite workflow requirements that are critical to the development of the systems supporting Human Resources and Payroll. The pre-BPR work is designed to help ensure that the university’s HR and payroll systems successfully transition to Oracle Human Capital Management. Concurrent with this work, the team continues with system testing. More details are coming. In the meantime, check out the initiative’s website.
CHART OF ACCOUNTS (COA) PHASE 2
Fund Type 100 Projects Closed for Business — The COA2 project team closed more than 300 Fund Type (FT) 100 unrestricted operating fund projects. With this work complete, the activities in the FT100 projects now transition to general ledger (GL)-only accounting. Find out more by reading the full story.