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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.

Buckeye Buy internal supplier catalogs now have a Preferred tag assigned to them in Workday. To limit your search to internal supplier catalogs, enter an item description and check the Preferred box in the Item Tags section in the left pane.  

The screenshot below provides a visual example. When searching for “room night,” with Preferred checked, the results will bring back internal supplier, The Blackwell.

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. 

The University Travel Office is offering Information Sessions to provide guidance and resources to assist with planning and arranging business travel.

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.

A new report is now available for end users to view journal line detail on income statement reporting.  The report "Find Journal Lines - OSU - Posted Journals by Amount Type" can be used to find the journal line details behind the data columns in reporting such as Equity Balances by Balancing/Carry Forward Worktags and Sources and Uses

The Tableau "Financial Balances Summarization" report has been updated on "Project" field. Now, project and project phase code amount will be added in "Project" field.  

Starting the week of January 29, the “Find Supplier Invoice Details – OSU” report will be enhanced with a new "Line Memo" field in the output of the report. The line memo field includes details associated with a purchase for the line. Some internal billing teams are leveraging this field to provide additional clarity in the invoicing for their customers (e.g. tag number, date order was placed, order number, etc.) to verify the customer is billed for the correct record.