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The Central Purchasing team has produced a Competitive Bid Waiver Process Guide. The guide is a valuable resource for those preparing to request a waiver of the competitive bidding on the purchase of goods and/or services. A detailed description of the supporting documentation required of requestors and suppliers and tips for the proper entry of a bid waiver requisition in Workday are included.

This article shares information about key dates for Spring 2023 tuition assistance (or fee authorization) processing as well as links to more information about the tuition assistance programs at the university.

System changes, including Job profile updates that support the Career Roadmap

Two new Miscellaneous Payment Request Reports as described below are now in Production. 

Find Miscellaneous Payment Request Summary - OSU: This report returns Miscellaneous Payment Request data based on header information such as status, payee, and total amount and can be used for basic metrics and transaction status tracking. 

New prompts have been added to "Find Expense Report Summary - OSU" and "Find Expense Report Details - OSU" that will allow both reports to be run by Approved Date. Additionally, "Find Expense Report Details - OSU" has been enhanced with a "Trackable Asset Lines Only" checkbox, allowing for easier tracking of this user selected field.

New tips and tricks information on the supplier invoice Match Exception process has been added to the Business and Finance website. This provides users with an overview of the business process and a crosswalk to additional resources. 

A 10-minute introductory session is now available for Ohio State employees who have a PCard or support PCard transaction processing.

A new "Cost Center Assignable Roles - OSU" report is now available to assist in reviewing cost center level approver assignments. The report can be filtered by College/Unit Cost Center Hierarchy and where Cost Centers have no approver assignments for certain roles. This will assist with identifying where required role assignments are missing and would cause transactions to go unassigned.

New activities have been released in the Cybersecurity for You (C4U) awareness platform.