NewsLink Articles

Blackboard: Offering BUCK ID Access System products that provide a single ID credential that can opens doors, make purchases and carry currency, including Schedule 70 for information technology and Schedule 84 for law enforcement and security.

Gudenkauf: Provides outside plant services.

Heritage and Sunrise Crop Productions: Provider of adjuvants, application services, fertilizer, fertilizer additives, fungicides, herbicides, insecticides, nitrogen stabilizers, seed treatments and soybean inoculants. Also, including but not limited to bulk water, rental equipment and variable-rate technology (VRT).

Vegetation Control: Lawn care for ATI campus.

A new university-wide contract for local accommodations and meeting space, was recently awarded to 17 properties by the Strategic Procurement team. The Strategic Procurement team has pre-negotiated terms and rates with local hotels for use by Ohio State as part of a competitive Request for Proposal (RFP).

The scope of these contracts includes individual and group accommodations, meeting space, AV/TV service, food and beverage services, and additional services for events at each property. Pre-negotiated terms include pricing, cancellation, attrition, concessions, etc. See the full article for the vendor list and additional purchasing guidance.

As we move towards our new enterprise system, our PeopleSoft account structure will shift to Foundation Data Model (FDM) values in Workday (enterprise-project.osu.edu/fdm-overview). During this transformation, User Defined in the PeopleSoft account structure will be replaced with other values. To ensure a smooth transition, we are changing the process for creating a User Defined value. The request for a new User Defined value will follow the same process for requesting other new chartfield values. The form for making requests can be found here: controller.osu.edu/forms/forms.shtm#chartrequest.

The Controller’s Office will be reviewing User Defined requests to ensure they will translate smoothly during the data conversion process of the Enterprise Project.

Data from Ohio State’s current systems are informing Enterprise Project decisions related to process design and system configuration. One of the long-term goals of the project is to instill a data-driven institutional culture. This translates into leveraging data insights for guidance and sound decision-making. The Business Process teams that support each functional area of the project (Finance, Human Resources, Payroll and Student) include an embedded data scientist.  Read on to learn how data scientists are supporting multiple project teams with information and trends.

Additionally, the project has moved into its next phase, Configure and Prototype. The key activities of this phase include building business processes in Workday, building system integrations and developing role-based training curriculum.