Tagged: Finance

Changes are being made to help users leverage the Requisition Worklet to manage their requisitioning process.

Users of the "Create Requisitions" task will now see a "Try new Experience" button. This will redirect them to use the Requisition Worklet. Additionally, for Requisition Worklet users, on the top of the page to the left of the shopping cart, a new question mark icon will be available that when clicked will provide basics on how to use the tool. Stay tuned for more detailed information regarding the buying experience.

Beginning Friday, March 15, all non-PO internal supplier invoice lines over $5,000 tied to the OSP Grant Hierarchy will route to the Grants Shared Service Center for review prior to posting. This review is to help ensure that grants are charged only approved internal billing rates, charges are in compliance with the grant agreement, and have appropriate supporting documentation.

A new Tableau report is now available to end users in "Enterprise" folder. This report allows users to customize worktags for finance data. Users can select worktags from the column headings and they will remain displayed on the page. Users can select up to 10 custom columns and those can be filtered from the details pane. The report displays beginning balance, activity, and ending balances for the worktag combinations selected.

To match requirements outlined in the earnings operation policy, the Senior Fiscal Officer approval will now be required for all FDM requests that use the "New Earnings Operation" or "Edit Existing Earnings Operation" form types. Previously, these request types routed to both the SFO and the Cost Center Director roles for approval, and only one of these roles had to approve. This change went into production at 5 p.m.

Coming Soon: Business Processes Awaiting Action – Journals:

To ensure the appropriate accounting for projects, it is important that considerations made to determine if project is Capital or not. To aid departments and units in making these determinations a detailed guidance document has been added to the B&F website.

To clarify the usage of the two project request sheets within the Project Intake and Capital Planning instance of Adaptive Planning, the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) will be completing the system enhancements described in this post, effective Thursday, February 15.

In addition to the system enhancements mentioned in the "Adaptive Planning – Project Intake and Capital Planning" post, updates to the review process for projects managed in e-Builder that are requested on the All Other Projects sheet will also go into effect on Thursday, February 15.

Currently, Purchase Requisitions, Spend Authorizations, Non-PO Invoices, and Expense Reports without Spend Authorizations are reported on the weekly grant transaction confirmation email sent out to Principal Investigators (PI) for their relevant Grants. Additionally, Misc. Payment Requests will start to be included on this report during the month of February. This is the final update and will ensure that our PIs can review all non-personnel charges against their Grants via this weekly reporting. 

A new series of reports has been released to help end users identify transactions that are still in draft status or have been submitted, but are pending approval steps. These reports also offer metrics to show the amount of time the transaction has been pending an approval step as well as length of time spent in progress. The business processes included in the new reports are Requisitions, Spend Authorizations, Expense Reports, Miscellaneous Payment Requests, Supplier Invoice Requests, Supplier Invoices and PO Change Orders.