News

The FY26 Autumn Forecast is now available in Workday and variance analysis reporting has been updated to reflect this forecast as the default prompt value for "Forecast Plan Name." See the full post for a list of affected reports.

A new column has been added to the output of the "Business Process Approval Times - Requisition Detail" and "Business Process Approval Times - Requisition Summary" reports. The new column is for the approval time of the HS Spend Category Commodity Manager approval role. This has been added due to the recent addition of this approval step to the requisition business process.

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 following parameters: 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). Due to the academic winter recess, this will occur in the first two weeks of January 2026. See full post for more details.

Enhancements to Teams, Outlook, OneDrive and Microsoft Lists will enable you to do more and to improve your workflow when using these tools.

The university Travel Office will host a Group Travel Information Session on Tuesday, January 13, during the January Travel, PCard, and Expense Office Hours. The session will provide guidance with Workday tasks (e.g., Group ECM and Group SA), an overview of arrangement planning with ScholarTrip, post-travel reconciliation of GET PCard transactions, and more! See the full post for details and a link for joining.