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Procurement
5 May 2026·6 min·Jeff Greening
How to Conduct an Effective AMS Partner Evaluation for Workday Success
Most UK organisations treat AMS partner selection as a procurement exercise. They score proposals on a spreadsheet and pick the highest number. Twelve months in, they discover the support team is offshore, the Article 28 DPA is generic, and the consultant on month-end payroll has never seen a UK pay run. Here is what a serious Workday AMS evaluation looks like.
3 Mar 2026·8 min·Jeff Greening
What a Workday Programme Manager Actually Does (And Why Generic PMs Struggle)
A good generic PM will build a detailed plan and track status. On a UK Workday programme, that is not enough. They have to know parallel payroll cycles, pension auto-enrolment design, HMRC year-end timing, and how IR35 shapes who you can even engage in the role. Most generic PMs miss all of it.