As a part of fiscal year-end activities, subaward supplier contract encumbrances will be closed out for FY25 and re-opened in FY26. An encumbrance will not roll-forward into FY26 if a subaward supplier contract has an "Amendment in Process" status. This issue was confirmed in testing. As a result, the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) is providing the guidance shared in the full post for subaward supplier contract amendments.
The Principal Investigator Transactions Report is now available in Workday which allows Grants Administrators the ability to view non-personnel transactions initiated for their PIs for a given date range. The report mimics the weekly non-personnel transaction report that PIs receive from Workday. The report is a new tool to help Grants Administrators when reviewing Workday transactions with their PIs.
To access the Principal Investigator Transaction report, the individual will either need the "Faculty and Grants Administrative Analyst" (for PIs) or "Grants Administrator Analyst" (for Grants Administrators/Staff) security role in Workday.
The updates listed in the full post have been made to PI Portal and Workday Grants Reporting to ensure data is accurate and in-sync. Questions about the changes can be directed to orhelpdesk@osu.edu .
As of July 18 , an updated Workday notification has been created following the approval of a Subaward Supplier Contract or Subaward Supplier Contract Amendment. A notification of fully approved subaward supplier contract or supplier contract amendment goes to all the prior approvers in the workflow and the initiator. This creates consistency with other spend transactions.
As of Friday, May 31 , all internal supplier invoices tied to a blanket purchase order and the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) Grant Hierarchy will route to the Grants Shared Service Center for review. This review is to help ensure that grants are charged only approved internal billing rates, comply with the grant agreement, and have appropriate supporting documentation. If there is not adequate detail to support the charges, the Grants Shared Service Center will be sending back the transactions.
Invoices will need to match purchase order unit cost lines to ensure rates are accurate and agree to what was approved on the PO.
Invoice totals will need to be within a $300 tolerance of the approved PO amount, otherwise the invoice will need revised or canceled and a change order must be completed.
The matching validations will help prevent compliance issues on the front end when billing grants internally, though the validations will apply to all internal transactions and not only grant transactions. We highly encourage those uploading internal supplier invoices via EIB to upload the EIB in the OSU3 business tenant first to identify and correct potential errors (invoices in draft status) before submitting in Workday. Please see the EIB for internal order billing job aid found in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC) for more information. If an EIB with errors is loaded to production inadvertently, please run the "Find Supplier Invoices- OSU" report to find invoices loaded in "draft" status that need to be resolved and submitted.
As a part of fiscal year-end activities, subaward supplier contract encumbrances will be closed out for FY24 and re-opened in FY25.
An encumbrance will not roll-forward into FY25 if a subaward supplier contract has an "Amendment in Process" status. This issue was confirmed in testing. As a result, the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) is providing guidance for subaward supplier contract amendments as detailed in the full post .
Beginning Friday, March 15 , all non-PO internal supplier invoice lines over $5,000 tied to the OSP Grant Hierarchy will route to the Grants Shared Service Center for review prior to posting. This review is to help ensure that grants are charged only approved internal billing rates, charges are in compliance with the grant agreement, and have appropriate supporting documentation. If there are no published rates and/or the rates do not match what is itemized on the requisition/quote or invoice that supports billing to OSP grants, the Grants Shared Service Center will be sending back the transactions.
The Workday "Effort Certification Status Report – OSU" has been updated to ensure terminated employees are included. Previously, when using cost center or cost center hierarchy with the Org Assignment Cost Center Hierarchies prompt, terminated workers would not di spl ay. Now, terminated workers will di spl ay based on the worker position data on their last day as active employees. This change allows you to use the Org Assignment Cost Center Hierarchies prompt without missing terminated employees. Please contact OSPGrantsAccounting@osu.edu with any questions.
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.
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.
