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Workday Strategic Sourcing Supplier Relationship Management will be implemented Thursday, January 29. This modern, secure portal will soon become the new, unified “front door” for all OSU and Health System suppliers. The improvement will streamline our supplier relationships, reduce internal administrative workload, and improve the efficiency of our partnerships. See the full NewsLink post for more details.

New columns have been added to the "Payroll Funding – Costing Allocation for Filled Positions" report to provide greater transparency into how costing is calculated for each worker and costing line. Details about the columns are listed in the full post. Help text has also been added to the report to explain how this calculation works for both hourly and salaried workers.

A suite of eight new reports specific to earnings operations are now live. BuckeyeLearn courses showing a demo of each new report will be launched later in January. See the full NewsLink post for a full list of reports and descriptions.

The newly released "Find Assets Details – OSU" report provides detailed asset information. It includes the same data as the "Find Assets Summary – OSU" report (formerly named "OSU – Find Assets") with an additional feature described in the full post.

Seeing performance issues when searching in Workday? Check out the full post for troubleshooting tips that may help. For general search information, see Workday Search Overview in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC).

Over the past few months, Human Resources has implemented key updates in Workday to streamline processes, improve efficiency and enhance user experience for employees, people leaders and HR professionals.

The FY26 Autumn Forecast is now available in Workday and variance analysis reporting has been updated to reflect this forecast as the default prompt value for "Forecast Plan Name." See the full post for a list of affected reports.

A new column has been added to the output of the "Business Process Approval Times - Requisition Detail" and "Business Process Approval Times - Requisition Summary" reports. The new column is for the approval time of the HS Spend Category Commodity Manager approval role. This has been added due to the recent addition of this approval step to the requisition business process.

To assist with the year-end procurement roll-forward process, the Controller’s Office will be analyzing and closing out old internal and external Purchase Orders (PO) which meet the following parameters: POs that are over two years old which have not been invoiced in the previous year (excluding POs for multiyear service contracts that are only billed annually, those related to construction projects beginning with “PJOSU,” OAKS type POs, and those that are FD520 grant related). Due to the academic winter recess, this will occur in the first two weeks of January 2026. See full post for more details.

The university Travel Office will host a Group Travel Information Session on Tuesday, January 13, during the January Travel, PCard, and Expense Office Hours. The session will provide guidance with Workday tasks (e.g., Group ECM and Group SA), an overview of arrangement planning with ScholarTrip, post-travel reconciliation of GET PCard transactions, and more! See the full post for details and a link for joining.