Qualtrics administration at Ohio State is transitioning to the Enterprise Content Services team within the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI). As part of this transition, email requests will route to our team via ServiceNow, providing better visibility and monitoring for...
All users are encouraged to install an urgent security update to all web browsers (on all devices) as well as an OS update on Mac devices, iPhones and iPads as soon as possible to...
Wondering how changing your benefits selections or tax withholdings might impact your paycheck? Are you interested in determining what your pay increase will be with your recent overtime hours? Introducing Model My Pay, a new Workday tool now available that allows you to apply various hypothetical changes to your earnings, benefits, or tax elections to calculate paycheck estimates before making any actual changes. To learn more about this helpful planning tool access an informational video at BuckeyeLearn or review the Model My Pay job aid.
This is a friendly reminder to units to clean up financial worktags that are no longer being used and submit inactivation requests through Workday. Prior to submitting worktag inactivation requests, ensure that the Inactivation Checklist has been completed and worktags show a zero balance. For more information, see the FDM Request Process for New Worktag Values job aid available in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC).
As part of a standardization project, the business teams have been reviewing notifications for the Requisition and Purchase Order Business Processes to help create consistency across each process. These enhancements will be completed on Monday, October 9 . The change described below will be made to help improve the end user experience.
The “Requested on behalf of” will be notified if someone else (the initiator) starts a requisition on behalf of them. The requisition requester (and Requested on behalf of if applicable) will be notified if the amount of the requisition is changed by someone downstream. The requisition requester (and Requested on behalf of if applicable) will be notified if anyone other than the requester of a requisition cancels or denies the requisition. For Requisitions, only PCard, Inventory Replenishment and Change Order Requisitions the system will notify the requester (and Requested on behalf of if applicable) at completion of the business process. For everything else notification will go out at the issuance of a Purchase Order. Prior approvers will all now be notified if a subsequent approver denies the requisition.
See the full post for a reminder about how Workday notifies initiators, reviewers and approvers as a Workday transaction moves through a business process.
From 5 p.m. on Friday, October 13, until 11 a.m. on Sunday, October 15, multiple PeopleSoft Buckeye Link services (Campus Solutions/Student Information System) will be unavailable due to planned maintenance. This change has a longer maintenance window that differs from previous SIS planned maintenance. For most students and faculty users, the change should not be noticeable, however, there are also some additional business area impacts detailed in the full post.
Administrators should advise travelers to exercise caution when working in the Expenses Hub. Upon selecting the “Actions” button for Spend Authorizations, the banner action prompt and other instructional text should be reviewed before selecting “Ok” to confirm the correct business process is initiated.
Spend Authorizations that have been prematurely closed are unable to be restored to “Approved” status and will not allow Expense Reports to be linked to the Spend Authorization. If a Spend Authorization has been closed in error, the Spend Authorization number should be referenced in the memo or comments of the Expense Report and a new Spend Authorization should not be submitted.
This issue has been added to the Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS) gap list for consideration and improvement by Workday. For questions, contact the Travel Office at travel@osu.edu or 614-292-9290.
Please be advised that the MS Teams link for Travel Office Hours has been updated. Participants should use the new link to attend future office hours (beginning October 2023).
Travel Office Hours are held on the first Tuesday of every month from 10 - 11:30 a.m. Participants will review current travel updates (industry, system, policy or supplier information), observe demos of Workday travel processes and/or how to use travel suppliers for booking, and ask questions regarding guidance for policy/system issues.
How to join? Use the Teams link available in the Travel Office Hours post on the Business and Finance site.
Currently, purchase requisitions and spend authorizations are reported on the weekly confirmation email sent out to Principal Investigators (PI) on their relevant Grants. Additionally, non-PO Invoices and Expense Reports without Spend Authorizations will start to be included during the month of October. This is to ensure that our PIs can review additional non-personnel charges against their Grants via this weekly reporting.
Many within the university community are still trying to adapt to the sharing and collaboration features in Microsoft 365. To help everyone to feel comfortable enough with these tools to fully take advantage of them, the university has been offering training sessions over the last few years to...
