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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.  

All FY23 UNIV blanket purchase orders must be issued outside of Buckeye Buy. Requestors should select the “blanket purchase order” requisition type and complete the request per the Create a Blanket Purchase Order job aid found in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC). Please note, the "Request Date" of the requisition should not be future dated. University funded blanket requisitions should align with the July through June fiscal year calendar.   

FY23 blanket order requisitions must be received by Central Purchasing between Monday, April 18 and Thursday, June 30 to allow for adequate processing time.

Please review the full NewsLink article for more details about Blanket Order guidelines.

Workday will be unavailable due to planned monthly maintenance on Saturday, April 9, from 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. 

Kronos and external dormakaba time clocks will be available, but employees using Workday to clock in and out should enter their hours once Workday is available again.

Health System Supply Chain users should note important information contained in the full NewsLink article.

If a purchase on a grant involves patient care costs, international travel, or alternations and renovations, the transaction must include the grant worktag AND a grant treatment worktag. The grant treatment worktag is necessary for the transaction to map to the correct object class. This is true for either a requisition or spend authorization.

The grant treatment worktag is used in addition to the spend category when a spend category maps to two separate object classes. For instance, “Hotels and Lodging (SC10736)” will map to domestic travel by default, but will map to foreign travel if the grant treatment worktag “Travel-Foreign (GT104)” worktag is present. In the case of patient care, the spend category “Medical Research Services (SC10550)” maps to the purchased services object class by default, and will map to patient care if the grant treatment “Patient Care Costs (GT102)” is present.

Use the following grant treatment worktag (GT#) when appropriate for the respective purchases:

- Patient Care Costs (GT102)

- Travel – Foreign (GT104)

- Alterations and Renovations (GT106)

Grant treatment worktags can be added in the additional worktag drop down menu of any transaction.

Starting the week of April 5, 2022, we will be working behind the scenes to reload the core Journal Line dataset from Workday into the Reporting and Analytics Environment (RAE), starting with January 2021 data and finishing through current day. The reload process is expected to be complete no later than April 15, 2022. We will load the data incrementally in monthly buckets due to the size of the files. Thus, during this 10-day period, updates will appear as the load steps complete.

There will be no system outage or downtime due to this work. Users, reports, and dashboards should not be affected. Updated and complete data will flow into your existing queries without any changes on your part. Once the reload is complete, we will send out a follow up notification.