Project Fast Lane - Other Uncategorized Questions

Yes, there will be bi-directional feeds created to integrate to both Peoplesoft Finance and HR Direct.

The Business and Travel Expense Policy focuses on travel expenses and allowable/non-allowable costs.  The Travel Policy addresses travel related risk, designation of high risk travel destinations and approvals required for such travel.

Yes, one of the products that UMass has purchased within Concur is Consultative Intelligence. This product offers dozens of customizable reports which measure a wide array of key metrics from all aspects of the Travel and Business Expense process.

Users will have the capability to make changes to email notifications.

At this time, we are still discussing design elements of the expense module with our implementation partners.

Yes, Concur has been configured to flag Fly America compliance.

Concur will send email notifications at each stage of the expense approval process. Reminders will be sent if reports are pending for too long.

Yes, Project Fast Lane was created to improve the expense report process and unify multiple procedures/software under one end-to-end system.

Yes.

Training will be available for all users of Concur. We are working on developing the training plan.

Yes, if PeopleSoft identifies a budget error, an error notification will be sent.

All users will be able to see the status of their own reports. Supervisors will see their employee's reports when they are submitted and pending the supervisor's approval. We are working on determining what additional reports are available for Supervisors to see more information about their team's expenses. 

The Business & Travel Expense Policy & Administrative Standards will remain in effect. The university does not provide cash advances. 

The time that it takes to reimbuse an expense report is dependent on where it sits in the payrool cycle and when the report is approved. Reimbursements will still be through payroll and only occur every other week.