All PCard Forms that support the issuance of a new PCard or adjustments to an existing PCard will be moved from DocuSign to Workday in August 2024. More information regarding the implementation date will be announced in the next NewsLink posting.
The PCard Office is offering an Information Session and Demonstration to provide guidance and resources to assist with the transition of the PCard Application and Maintenance Forms into Workday.
Join the Information Session and Demonstration on Wednesday, July 24 (2- 3 p.m.). Check out the full Business and Finance PCard article for more details and the link for joining the session.
For questions, contact the PCard Office at pcard@osu.edu or 614-292-9290.
To address the Workday encumbrance issues associated with payroll commitments for biweekly pay period 14 (6/16-6/29), FY24 payroll commitments were closed out the week of Monday, July 8 and a new integration with a journal source of "Payroll Encumbrance Accrual Reversal" was run to clear outstanding balances in FY24. Correcting entries for over liquidations in FY25 associated with PPD14 also have been posted. Reporting for personnel encumbrances should now be back on track and we will resume the regular encumbrance adjustments schedule starting July 15 . The Positions for Planning report has also been updated to reflect the new fiscal year 2025.
Below are details about reporting changes as of July 15. See the full post where indicated for more specifics.
Variance Analysis Reports Default Prompt Updates for Fiscal Year 25:
Due to the new fiscal year, multiple reports (as listed in the full post ) have had the "Budget Plan Name" and "Forecast Plan Name" default prompt values updated to reflect the new fiscal year. It is important to note that until the plan/forecast lines have been loaded into Workday no activity will show in the plan/forecast sections of the report. For more information on the timing of the plan line uploads reach out to your Senior Fiscal Officer or FP&A analyst.
Find Journal Lines – OSU - Posted Journals by Amount Type Enhancements:
The "Find Journal Lines – OSU - Posted Journals by Amount Type" report has been enhanced to provide additional operational insights for financial entries. A new prompt has been added for Supplier, which can be used to return journal lines which contain the prompted supplier on the journal line. Most commonly this will be from Supplier Invoice activity and includes external and internal suppliers. Expense Payee has been added to the output of the report. This returns the corresponding Expense Payee for Spend Authorization Cash Advance, and Expense Report journal activity.
The "UNIV Remaining Encumbrances - Requisitions, POs, Spend Authorizations" report will be enhanced to include a section for supplier contracts on the output of the report. This will include a column for the number of supplier contracts with remaining encumbrances as well as the obligation amount remaining. With this addition, the report name will be amended to "UNIV Remaining Encumbrances - Requisitions, POs, Spend Authorizations, Supplier Contracts."
Other changes include adjusting the default date to June 13, 2025 for the prompt "Spend Authorization Return Date On or Before." When drilling into the details on the output of the report, an additional column has been added for each transaction type. The transaction type and the corresponding drillable details column information is listed in the full post .
Under the university's new contract with Adobe, units will need to purchase Adobe Creative Cloud licenses required by their faculty and staff. Adobe Acrobat Pro, the most used Adobe software at Ohio State, remains available to all faculty and staff without the need for additional licenses....
When the university asked OTDI to modernize our administrative systems with cloud-based Workday, Ohio State gained the ability to maintain a primary source of trusted data (a single source of truth) that could be shared by all of Ohio State and the Wexner Medical Center.
In addition to Workday (implemented in 2021) the university knew it also needed a new application to enable better reporting and data analytics for its business transactions. By adding Tableau as a partnering tool, Ohio State's data analysis and data visualization competencies have expanded. Check out this quick 5-minute History of OTDI video highlighting Tableau to learn how it was incorporated into Ohio State’s suite of powerful enterprise tools.
A new spend category has been created for warranties (SC11019). Previously, users were selecting the insurance services spend category for warranty transactions, which were routing for special category approval with Risk Management. Warranties do not require special category approval from Risk; therefore, this new spend category should be utilized for these transactions.
The template to upload journal entries via Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) is changing. Beginning at 5 p.m. on Friday, July 12 , you will need to use the new template. The current template will not work after 5 p.m. on July 12. The current information found at the Upload Journal Entries (EIB) in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC) will be updated at the time.
What's changing? We are updating the template to the newest version, adding statistical book code to the drop down, adding budget date to the lines, and adding a Grant Treatment column.
Please note that the equity roll-forward of FY25 beginning equity balances will not occur until after second close, which is at 5 p.m. on the evening of Thursday, July 18. As a result, reporting will be affected until the equity roll-forward process is complete.
In an effort to improve travel data analytics, the Travel Office has coordinated updates with the FDM team (effective Monday, July 1) to separate expense items into distinct spend categories for enhanced reporting. Careful consideration should be made when selecting expense items or spend categories that can affect travel expense data and downstream reporting.
Cost Center Managers and Service Centers have a responsibility to ensure the appropriate spend category or expense item is used on all transactions. It is recommended to run “Spend Categories - FDM Values” for Travel spend category hierarchy to review the existing financial worktags. It is also recommended to run “View Expense Item” for Travel Expenses to review the existing expense items.
For questions, contact the Travel Office at travel@osu.edu or 614-292-9290.
