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To ensure transactions are not skipping the review/approval steps for Cost Center Managers and Department Leaders when a Cost Center Manager or Department Leader is initiating or having a transaction initiated on their behalf, the following alternate routing updates are being made in Workday. 

• Cost Center Manager steps will route to Cost Center Director when there is no Cost Center Manager to assign.
• Department Leader steps will route to Senior Fiscal Officer when there is no Department Leader to assign.  

A recording of the Tableau Server Fundamentals training is now available on demand in BuckeyeLearn. Users can search for “Tableau Server Fundamentals” in BuckeyeLearn and take the class at their own pace.

Buckeye Buy catering orders for Columbus campus events must be placed through the Catering Marketplace. The Catering Marketplace is a multi-supplier round trip catalog of drop-off and full-service caterers and event equipment rental suppliers.

The two reporting enhancements listed are now in production.

Find Miscellaneous Payment Request Summary - OSU - This report has been enhanced to include the Accounting Date, and Reconciliation Status as both a report prompt, and output field. 

Find Expense Report Details - OSU - This report has been enhanced to include the Merchant Name transmitted to the bank for Expense Report lines associated with PCard Purchases.  

As a result of user community feedback, the "Equity Balances by Balancing/Carry Forward Worktags" report will receive two updates.

An enhancement has been made to the Sources and Uses suite of reports to allow users to select "book" when running a report.  

Please note that if you have saved filters on this report you will need to ensure your report is running on the common book to return the results your saved filters would have normally returned.  When you apply a saved filter the book default of common book will blank out.  Please update your filters to select the common book if appropriate.

An additional view has been created in the "Payroll Expense Details and Flexible Payroll Expense Data" to show hours associated with salary expense. The new tabs are called "Prepopulated Monthly Payroll Actuals (Hours and Amount)" and "Flexible Monthly Payroll Actuals (Hours and Amount)." 

A new university-wide contract was recently awarded to four flower and gift basket suppliers by the Sourcing team. Instances where you might order from these suppliers could include expressions of acknowledgement and support for life events such as birth or adoption of a child, injury/illness of an employee, or the injury, illness or death of an immediate family member, etc.

We use words like “student” and “employee” every day, but did you know that we don’t have standard definitions for these terms across the university and medical center? The Ohio State Data Governance team has launched a new initiative to standardize institutional definitions to increase clarity and accuracy in data reporting and analysis. As part of this effort, a team is facilitating the development of working groups, consisting of subject matter experts and data stewards, from across the university and medical center.