Please refer to the downloadable Unit Year-end Checklist for important year end timeline information and tasks that need to be performed. Please make every effort to close out as many old items as possible to help avoid system issues for the year-end roll forward process. As a reminder, purchase orders can close only when the status is issued and there are no:
in-progress or draft receipts. in-progress or draft "Return to Supplier" documents. related supplier invoices with draft, incomplete, or in-progress status. related ASNs in draft or in-progress.
You can view the status of these items on the Business Document Lines of the purchase order. The focus should be on documents tied to old POs with remaining balances that should be closed and not rolled forward. These can be identified using the "Find Purchase Order Details - OSU" report and checking the "Purchase Orders with Remaining Obligations/Encumbrances Only" box. Please work with the appropriate parties to take action on outstanding items by Friday, May 31, 2024 and send lists of POs that are ready to be closed to your Service Center Representative to close. Please also copy the Controller’s Office ( ctl-fdmrequests@osu.edu ) for awareness.
Effective Friday, April 19 , as part of the Campus Position Control Project, Cost Center Managers will now receive costing allocations through their inboxes for New Position Management Positions and all Job Management Hires (who are not paid from Period Activity Pay). This is a change, as historically costing would route to managers to initiate.
Additionally, Cost Center Managers can initiate costing allocations as a standalone process for their own assigned cost centers with no approval required. If a Cost Center Manager initiates cost allocations for cost centers that are not their own, it will route to the appropriate Cost Center Manager to approve.
This new routing should provide enhanced efficiency for both managers and Cost Center Managers.
The Tableau report "Delegation History - OSU" has been updated with the enhancements described below.
A new "Stopped Date and Time" field has been added to the report. When the delegation is stopped for any reason before it's expected end date, the stopped date and time will now display in a new column. A new filter "For All Business Processes" has been added to the report. Additionally, the naming of two fields has been changed. "Allowed Action" has been changed to "Start on My Behalf." "Specified Business Processes" has been changed to "Approval on Behalf of Specified Business Processes." A clean-up has been done on the "Delegation Details" and "All Delegation History" to no longer display rows denoting when a worker is on leave and returns from leave. This reduces some unnecessary noise in the data.
Beginning April 14, 2024, Zoom will be updating the visual and functional user experience in the new version, 6.0. You will need to update your desktop Zoom app. On your personally-owned computer, click the profile picture or your...
The Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) announced a Request for Proposals (RFP) in December 2023 for an enterprise-wide proctoring tool or tools to support teaching and learning at the university. Several vendors submitted bids, and an evaluation committee made up of representatives from across the university assessed and tested the vendors’ proctoring tools. The evaluation committee recommended Ohio State pursue a contract with Honorlock and continue using the Respondus Lockdown Browser tool.
Blanket orders are used for transactions that occur very frequently (daily or multiple times a week), have a high variation of product types, have undetermined timing, and are not available in Buckeye Buy.
All FY25 UNIV blanket purchase orders must be issued outside of Buckeye Buy. Requestors should select the “blanket purchase order” requisition type and complete the request per the Create a Blanket Purchase Order job aid found in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC). Please note , the "Request Date" of the requisition should reflect the date the requisition is created and should not be future dated . University funded blanket requisitions should align with the July through June fiscal year calendar.
Monthly service orders (formerly term orders) for uniform service, pest control, office coffee and water service, floor mat replacement, lawn care and snow removal should also be issued on service line blanket requisitions, outside of Buckeye Buy.
Accounts Payable advises users to include the service to be provided and frequency in the description line of the requisition. It will also be helpful to include the expected term agreement details in the memo to supplier field (example, $50.00/month for 12 months).
Reminder: Encumbrances for blanket purchase orders associated with fiscal year 2025 will first post to fiscal year 2024 until a manual job is run at month-end to move the encumbrance into fiscal year 2025. The process will look for any blanket purchase orders created after April 15, 2024 .
A new Internal Order Supplier Invoice Printing job aid (login reqired) has been published in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC). The job aid provides instructions for how Internal Service Providers can print their invoices in Workday to an OSU formatted PDF printed version.
Enhancements to Teams, Outlook, OneDrive and Microsoft Lists will enable you to do more and to improve your workflow when using these tools. Enhancements include a better remote experience when sharing content remotely during Teams meetings, easier access to media in the Microsoft OneDrive for Mobile, the ability to create a form in Microsoft Lists, and more. Read on for more details about upcoming enhancements.
In August 2022 the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) announced a request for proposals (RFP) in search of a media platform for use at Ohio State, and an evaluation committee made up of representatives from across the university assessed and tested the vendors’ media tools. After much consideration, the RFP was awarded to Mediasite.
Data Stewards, security contacts, and administrative system contacts will be receiving an email from Digital Security and Trust – Identity and Access Security Operations with information and instructions on how to verify their area’s Financials, Human Resources, Medical Center Financials, and Student Information System users for the coming year. Your attention regarding this mandated annual activity is very important. The email will be sent during the week of Monday, May 6, 2024 , with a requested deadline to confirm area users by Friday, June 7, 2024 .
