Workday will be unavailable due to planned monthly maintenance on Saturday, March 4, from 2 a.m. to 9 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 online.
Health System Supply Chain users should note the important information listed below.
The first of Workday's two major releases in 2023 of enhancements and new functionality is scheduled to move to production on Saturday, March 11, from 2 a.m. to 5 a.m. Workday will be unavailable during the maintenance period.
Note, this maintenance was rescheduled from March 4.
From 12:01 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Sunday, March 12, the following PeopleSoft Buckeye Link services (Campus Solutions/Student Information System) will be unavailable due to planned maintenance, including:
The Ohio State App (mobile) will not be affected by the downtime.
Workday will be unavailable due to planned quarterly maintenance on Saturday, February 18, from 2 a.m. to 1 p.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 online.
Supply Ordering: Order Friday, February 17 before 10 p.m. or after 1 p.m. on Saturday, February 18.
Dates are extremely important for processing and reporting on transactions. Please use special care when entering and approving transactions to ensure use of the correct dates. A new "Transaction Dates in Workday that Drive Accounting" guide is available in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC). This document outlines which transaction dates drive operational accounting entries in Workday.
New training modules on Adaptive Planning are now available in BuckeyeLearn. The modules listed below are recommended for Ohio State employees needing to use Adaptive Planning for the Spring 2023 planning cycle.
Ohio State’s Office of Comprehensive Energy will be changing how they manage utilities bills (electricity, natural gas, and water/sewer) for Ohio State and the Health System. A third-party system, WatchWire, will be used to gather utility invoices from various companies and submit invoices into Workday for payment. This removes manual effort from the departments and streamlines the process. The Energy Office will be reaching out to the affected departments with more on the transition taking place during February 2023.
Please do not begin entering FY24 blanket purchase orders until April 2023. More information and detailed instructions on creating FY24 blanket purchase orders will be posted in a future Newslink article.
Coming in May, the Buckeye Buy shopping experience will transition from the current third-party website (GHX Procure) to being all self-contained within Workday.
Bringing the Buckeye Buy experience directly into Workday simplifies the “shopping” process for end users. It also allows end users to see the different stages of their orders through the procure-to-pay lifecycle.
What benefits will we get from doing this?
As we prepare to move ordering of goods and services into Workday, a change is coming for supplier contracts. Existing supplier contracts used for procurement in Workday as of February 10 may have a suffix of “Do Not Use” added to the contract name. A new contract with the original name will be created as of February 10. The original contract will remain open until fiscal year end close to allow open transactions to process against it, which means both the old and new contracts will be active and available at the same time.