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FY26 Blanket order entry can begin on Monday, April 14. A new workday enhancement will be turned on the week of April 7 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 this 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.

Other important information 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 they are intended for. 
• 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.

See the full post for additional reminders about the use of blanket orders.

The Office of Business and Finance in coordination with the University Travel Office is pleased to announce our extended partnership with Anthony Travel. Effective July 1, 2025, Anthony Travel will replace Corporate Travel Planners (CTP) as the Travel Management Company for individual business travel. Read more at the Travel Office webpage. Questions can be directed to the FAQs or contact the University Travel Office at 614-292-9290 or travel@osu.edu.

New Reporting Time Period:
A new reporting time period is now available to be used on financial reports prompts. "Last 24 Periods" may now be selected and will return results for the 24 periods prior to the Accounting Period selected on the report prompt. When retrieving data from many periods you should further filter to specific Worktags, Journal Sources, etc. to retrieve the data. In some cases, the number of lines may exceed the capacity of Microsoft Excel.

Find Suppliers - OSU Enhancements:
A new prompt has been added to the "Find Suppliers - OSU" report. It is a checkbox prompt called "Proposed Inactive Suppliers." By selecting this prompt, the data will be filtered to only active suppliers that have not had an invoice or purchase order within the last 13 months, and have not been created within the last 13 months. Additionally, a column has been added to the output of the report to display the "Created On" date for a supplier.

Find Inventory Stock Request Lines - OSU Enhancement:
A new column has been added to the output of the "Find Inventory Stock Request Lines - OSU" report. The column is called "Originating Business Document Line" and will display the requisition number for inventory stock requests that were originated via the requisition process.

Find Miscellaneous Payment Request Summary - OSU Enhancement:
A new column has been added to the output of the "Find Miscellaneous Payment Request Summary - OSU" report. The new column displays the "Security Group Awaiting Action" so end users can determine where in progress transactions are in the workflow.

New Report: Inventory Turns - OSU:
A new version of the Workday-delivered "Inventory Turns" report is now available and is called "Inventory Turns - OSU." This report features all existing report fields from the original report and has an additional column on the output called "Active Inventory Sites" to display the inventory sites where the purchase item has an item site status of Active. The original report will be retired on Friday, April 18 to avoid duplication.

Coming Soon: Find Supplier Requests Enhancements:
The "Find Supplier Requests" report will have several new report fields added. The output will soon display the "Security Group Awaiting Action," "Days Since Assignment," and "Days Since Initiated." Additionally, the existing report field and prompt for "Initiator's CCH6" will be adjusted to display the CCH6 of the person who created the request at the time the request was created, rather than the worker's CCH6 at time the report is run.

Sources and Uses by Cost Center will be updated the week of Monday, March 24. Pre-encumbrance activity will be added to the Encumbrance column so both are captued within the same column. The column name will change from Encumbrance to Pre-Encumbrance/Encumbrance.