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Please refer to the downloadable Unit Year-end Checklist for important year end timeline information and tasks that need to be performed. Please make every effort to close out as many old items as possible to help avoid system issues for the year-end roll forward process.

Effective Friday, April 19, as part of the Campus Position Control Project, Cost Center Managers will now receive costing allocations through their inboxes for New Position Management Positions and all Job Management Hires (who are not paid from Period Activity Pay). This is a change, as historically costing would route to managers to initiate.  

The Tableau report "Delegation History - OSU" has been updated with the enhancements described below.  

Blanket orders are used for transactions that occur very frequently (daily or multiple times a week), have a high variation of product types, have undetermined timing, and are not available in Buckeye Buy.

A new Internal Order Supplier Invoice Printing job aid (login reqired) has been published in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC). The job aid provides instructions for how Internal Service Providers can print their invoices in Workday to an OSU formatted PDF printed version. 

The campus job posting process will be updated in mid-April to remove duplications, increase transparency and shorten the time for posting positions. A new Campus Position Hiring Request Form will be attached in Workday, and financial review will be integrated into the Workday process. The existing DocuSign Hiring Exception form will be eliminated. Find additional support resources on the HR website.

Per the Travel Policy, all cash advances must be reconciled and substantiated within 30 days of completion of the trip. If a trip is cancelled, the traveler must repay the cash advance immediately.

B&H Photo will be closed for Passover beginning at 2 p.m. on Friday, April 19 through Tuesday, April 30.

However, you can still generate quotes, place orders, and submit purchase orders through the supplier website in Buckeye Buy on specific days during the closure. Note that product will not be shipped until B&H reopens on Wednesday, May 1. Purchase orders issued during the closures will still be accepted but product will not ship until B&H reopens.

One of the methods used by the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) to safeguard Ohio State’s restricted data (e.g. student, alumni, faculty and staff information, patient medical records, research data, etc.) is the annual review of user access for the university Workday Financials, Human Resources, Medical Center Financials, and Student Information Systems.

On Friday, March 29, an update will be made to transaction routing for Service Centers. Previously, for individuals assigned both the Rep and Lead security roles (Business Operations Service Center or Grants Operations Service Center) the transaction did not route for an additional approval. Moving forward, this feature will be turned off. If an individual has both security roles (Rep and Lead) the transaction will now route for an additional approval.