Future Dated Requisitions to be Used for FY26 Blanket Order Entry

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. 

More details to be aware of with this enhancement: 

• Future dated requisitions should not be entered for more than a year in advance, except for multiyear service contracts. Please contact purchasing to discuss entry for multiyear service contracts.   
• FY26 blankets that are not future dated will be sent back for corrections. 
• If users begin invoicing the future dated blanket early (e.g. start invoicing a FY26 blanket in FY25), it results in a mismatch because the liquidation will happen in the current year, but the encumbrance is in the future year.  As a reminder, blanket orders are supposed to be used in the fiscal year for which they are intended.   
• If a FY26 blanket requisition is inadvertently entered with a current year FY25 request date, FY25 is where the encumbrance will remain until the June year end procurement roll forward. The Controller's Office will no longer be rolling forward purchase orders at the end of April and May. If a unit does not want to wait until June for the encumbrances to be correctly shown in FY26, they should do a change order.   
• If needed, future dated requisitions can be tied to future dated supplier contracts (example: a blanket requisition is entered in May for a 7/1/25 start date, and a new contract is signed in May but is not effective until 7/1/25). 
• The Create Blanket Purchase Order job aid will be updated in coordination with the functionality being turned on, the week of April 7.