In addition to the system enhancements mentioned in the " Adaptive Planning – Project Intake and Capital Planning " post, updates to the review process for projects managed in e-Builder that are requested on the All Other Projects sheet will also go into effect on Thursday, February 15 . There are no process changes to project requests on this sheet that do not need to go through e-Builder. See the full post for details about projects managed in e-Builder.
Buckeye Buy internal supplier catalogs now have a Preferred tag assigned to them in Workday. To limit your search to internal supplier catalogs, enter an item description and check the Preferred box in the Item Tags section in the left pane.
See the full post for a screenshot visual example and check out the Buckeye Buy User Guides page for the complete list of internal supplier catalogs in Buckeye Buy.
Currently, Purchase Requisitions, Spend Authorizations, Non-PO Invoices, and Expense Reports without Spend Authorizations are reported on the weekly grant transaction confirmation email sent out to Principal Investigators (PI) for their relevant Grants. Additionally, Misc. Payment Requests will start to be included on this report during the month of February. This is the final update and will ensure that our PIs can review all non-personnel charges against their Grants via this weekly reporting.
The University Travel Office is offering Information Sessions to provide guidance and resources to assist with planning and arranging business travel.
International Travel information session, Tuesday, February 27 - (10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.) - Check out the full Business and Finance Travel article for more details and links for joining the session. Combining Business with Personal Travel information session, Tuesday, March 5 - (10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.) - following normal Travel Office Hours discussions. Check out the full Business and Finance Travel article for more details and link for joining this session.
More Information Sessions to be announced.
For questions, contact the Travel Office at travel@osu.edu or 614-292-9290.
The BuckeyeLearn team is excited to share a new feature designed with the learner in mind – the ability to submit reviews for the courses a learner has successfully completed. Every learner’s journey is unique, and now they can share their insights to help others on their own educational path through the use of new “Course Rating and Reviews” functionality. Check out the full post to learn more.
As OTDI announced in December , anyone forwarding an Ohio State or BuckeyeMail account to another email can expect forwarded messages to possibly be blocked by new security measures designed to block spam. Specifically, changes announced by Google beginning in February 2024 may impact delivery to Gmail.
The Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) and the Office of Secure Research (OSR) are implementing a new tool for encrypted research emails. All future encrypted emails will go through Virtru and we will be eventually retiring all R accounts. We will be communicating future dates...
A new version of Microsoft Teams is now available to all university faculty, staff, and students. This version allows Teams to operate faster and simpler than before with various updates. You may see the option to upgrade to the new teams now. On March 13, 2024 this version will become the...
A new series of reports has been released to help end users identify transactions that are still in draft status or have been submitted, but are pending approval steps. These reports also offer metrics to show the amount of time the transaction has been pending an approval step as well as length of time spent in progress. The business processes included in the new reports are Requisitions, Spend Authorizations, Expense Reports, Miscellaneous Payment Requests, Supplier Invoice Requests, Supplier Invoices and PO Change Orders.
There are two different styles of reports, a "Summary" version and a "Detail" version. The report naming conventions are "Business Processes Awaiting Action - (Transaction Type) Summary" or "Business Processes Awaiting Action - (Transaction Type) Detail." Additionally, a dashboard and a report group are available. Additional features are listed below.
The summary-style reports display the security groups awaiting action, number of transactions, days since assignment and days in progress. The detail-style reports display one row per transaction and include the security group and persons awaiting action, days since assignment and days in progress. Basic funding information is also displayed in this reporting. The dashboard, "Business Processes Awaiting Action - Finance/Supply Chain" displays all summary-style reports. The report group "Business Processes Awaiting Action Report Group" allows end users to enter one set of prompts and have all reports download into one Excel file.
