FY26 Blanket order entry can begin on Monday, April 14, 2025 . A new workday enhancement will be turned on the week of April 7th to allow for future dated requisitions. Prior to this enhancement, users were instructed to current date blanket requests, and then the Controller's Office had to run a manual job during month end close in April and May to roll the encumbrances into the future fiscal year.
With the new enhancement, all FY26 blanket order requisitions should be entered as future dated requests (request date of 7/1/25) . The corresponding purchase order (PO) document dates and encumbrances will also be future dated, so they are correctly recorded for FY26. The PO will be issued after the requisition is fully approved.
See the full post for more details to be aware of with this enhancement.
Requirements have been updated to provide guidance on how employee vs independent contractor work at Ohio State should be classified.
If you plan to hire certain types of individuals or businesses for work in your area, you must follow these requirements to ensure they are correctly classified as employees or independent contractors. The Independent Contractor Guidelines provide an overview of the process for how to evaluate independent contractors and are available on the Purchasing website.
Additionally an Independent Contractor form is available on the Policies and Forms page of the Business and Finance website. This form is a decision-making and documentation tool which is to be used by departments when purchasing services from individuals.
Report Enhancement: Find Journal Lines – OSU - Posted Journals by Amount Type
The "Find Journal Lines – OSU - Posted Journals by Amount Type" report has been enhanced with an additional field for "Object Class" in the output of the report.
Grant - FDM Values Report Enhancements
The output of the report "Grant - FDM Values" has been enhanced to include four additional columns. Those columns include the Award Line From Date, Award Line To Date, Prime Sponsor Type, and Sponsor Type.
Supplier Contracts Prompt Added to Procurement Reporting
A "Supplier Contracts" prompt has been added to three reports to enable users to search by supplier contracts. The reports include "Find Supplier Invoice Summary - OSU," "Find Supplier Invoice Detail - OSU," and "Find Purchase Order Summary - OSU."
Find "Requisition Summary - OSU" Prompt Update
An update to the prompt "Supplier" on the "Find Requisition Summary - OSU" report is scheduled to take place at end of day on Friday, February 14. See the full post for more details.
In preparation for the combined federal and state filing changes, the Payee Setup Form along with the Miscellaneous Payee and Miscellaneous Payment Request tasks will be updated to include additional address prompts for 1099 income reporting when the state in which work is performed differs from the state associated with the payee’s primary address. The changes listed in the full post will occur on January 17.
Please do not begin entering FY26 blanket purchase orders until April 14, 2025. More information and detailed instructions on creating FY26 blanket purchase orders is forthcoming.
To assist with the year-end procurement roll-forward process, the Controller’s Office will be analyzing and closing out old internal and external Purchase Orders (PO) which meet the parameters listed below.
POs that are over two years old which have not been invoiced in the previous year (excluding POs for multiyear service contracts that are only billed annually, those related to construction projects beginning with "PJOSU," OAKS type POs, and those that are FD520 grant related).
This will occur the last week of December 2024. As a reminder, this process occurs on a 6-month closure cadence (during the last week of December and the first week of June each year). To see what POs will be closed as part of this process, run the "Find Purchase Order Details – OSU" report, and filter using the above parameters and the "last invoice date" column.
Once POs are mass closed, if there is a true need, they can be reopened by the service center if the transaction is within the same fiscal year. If you see that a PO is closed and believe it was closed in error, review the process history of the PO and contact the user who closed it. Users with the Spend Analyst security role can view who closed POs in the PO process history.
While this is a semi-annual cleanup effort, units are still required to work with service centers to close POs on a regular basis and once it is apparent the PO will no longer be used.
The "Find Supplier Requests" report in Workday will be enhanced with an additional column on the report called “Supplier Request." This drill down field allows those who have access to this data to see and take additional actions.
The "Find Supplier Invoice Request (SIR) Summary - OSU" report will be enhanced with an additional set of date prompts.
Prompt "Supplier Invoice Request Completed Date on or After" and "Supplier Invoice Request Completed Date on or Before" fields are added which allows users to run the report by when the supplier invoice request completed consistent with other procurement reporting.
Updates were made to Module 1 of the 2 part Internal Order Billing BuckeyeLearn training . These updates reflect invoice workflow changes that were made in May 2024 and provide a better learning format for end users.
