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  • Copilot with Data Protection Now Available to University Faculty and Staff

    Bethany Varcho | January 22, 2024
    OTDI recently enabled Copilot with commercial data protection, a secure version of the Copilot AI tool that can be used by university faculty and staff.Copilot is a chatbot that uses public online data to provide you with information. The main benefit of logging in with your Ohio State credentials to use Copilot with commercial data protection is additional security. In addition, when you log in ...

  • Business Process Notification Updates

    Richard Hunter | January 12, 2024
    Supply Chain business process notifications continue to be reviewed to help create consistency across each process. The business process notification enhancements detailed in this post will be implemented during the weeks of January 15 and January 22.Week of January 15 enhancements:For purchase orders (PO) where there is no requisition, the prior approvers of the PO will now be notified if the PO...

  • New Schedule for Mass Closure of Old Purchase Orders 

    Richard Hunter | January 12, 2024
    To assist with the Year End Procurement Roll Forward process, the Controller’s Office will soon 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 con...

  • Use New Internal Order Billing Supplier Invoice EIB Template After 5 p.m. on Jan. 31 

    Richard Hunter | January 12, 2024
    The template to upload internal billing supplier invoices via EIB is changing. Beginning at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 31, users are required to use the new template. The current template will not work after 5 p.m. on January 31. The current information found at the Supplier Invoice for Internal Billing EIB Template Upload (EIB) link in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC) wi...

  • Business Process Approval Times – Miscellaneous Payment Request Reporting Enhancements

    Richard Hunter | January 12, 2024
    Enhancements have been added to the output of both the "Business Process Approval Times – Miscellaneous Payment Request Detail" and the "Business Process Approval Times – Miscellaneous Payment Request Summary" reports. The enhancements include a new column on the output of each report to display the approval time for the workflow step “Accountant OSP.” This approval step will be added into th...

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