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  • New Blanket PO Notification

    Richard Hunter | January 20, 2023
    A new custom notification was implemented into Workday production on Friday, January 20. Specifically, this notification will be for the requisition requester and will relate to Blanket PO’s and invoice total amounts. Anytime a Blanket PO is greater than or equal to 90% of the total invoice amount, a notification will go out to the requisition requester. This will allow the requester to add...

  • Business and Finance Policy Hosting Changes 

    Richard Hunter | January 20, 2023
    Policies owned by Business and Finance will no longer be hosted on the B&F website. Instead, they will be hosted by the University Policy Office at policies.osu.edu. The B&F website information will continue be available as usual since the document links will be changed to point to the new host. However, any personal browser bookmarks will need to be updated. The website work should be completed...

  • Grants Can be Used on Position Restriction Costing

    Richard Hunter | January 20, 2023
    Effective Friday, January 20, Position Restriction costing allocations can use grants. Any new positions that are grant funded can now be set up at the Create Position step. Cost Center Managers are not required to update the previously recorded costing allocations to accommodate the new functionality.

  • Payroll Encumbrance Adjustments 

    Richard Hunter | January 20, 2023
    Update: The Workday issue with payroll encumbrance adjustments has been resolved and the Controller's Office ran the process successfully on February 18. Payroll encumbrance balances now represent approved activity through that date. Original post: The Controller's Office is currently unable to run payroll encumbrance adjustments due to an issue within Workday. Workday plans to deliver a fix the...

  • Coming Soon: "Workers on Leave for Cost Center Managers" Report Enhancement 

    Richard Hunter | January 20, 2023
    The "Workers on Leave for Cost Center Managers" report is being enhanced to return workers on leave that have "active" leave on or after the date the report is run through the end of the fiscal year. This will allow units to see future dated leaves that may impact their fiscal year encumbrances. The change will be migrated into production the week of January 23.

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