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In response to evolving user needs, the OTDI Data Visualization team is conducting Tableau Server Fundamentals training via Zoom on August 19 and October 15. Since many people have augmented Workday reporting with Tableau reports, this 45-minute online training is for users new to using Tableau Server for reporting purposes. It will cover navigation, subscriptions, sharing data, and how to create and save report parameters. This training is intended for non-Medical Center users. Attendees must be up to date on IDP training and have access to Tableau Server. Registration through BuckeyeLearn is required and space is limited. See the full post for registration details as well as help resource updates including Tableau consultation opportunities and a new LinkedIn Learning playlist.

This post contains new Buckeye Buy catalog information about suppliers Al’s Delicious Popcorn, Sonesta Hotel, Columbus Garage Floor Coatings, and Univ Main Warehouse and Chemistry Store. See the full post for details.

The Ohio Department of Taxation has announced there will be an Ohio Sales Tax Holiday in effect from 12 a.m. Friday, August 1 until 11:59 p.m. Thursday, August 14, 2025. During the holiday, the exemption will apply to all sales of goods that are $500 or less except for certain watercraft, motor vehicles, alcoholic beverages, tobacco, vapor products, or items containing marijuana. See the full post for more details as well as a contact for questions.

During the week of June 23, Workday validations were added to the supplier invoice business process to ensure that the cost of sales expenditure treatment worktag can only be utilized by approved university earnings operations (Funds FD120, FD121, FD122 and FD200). As a reminder, use of the ET101 expenditure treatment drives the transaction accounting to the cost of sales ledger account (61020). See the full post for more details and guidance.

A column on the output of the reports "Find Supplier Invoice Summary - OSU" and "Find Supplier Invoice Details - OSU" has been removed due to performance issues. The report field removed was "All Invoices Paid to Supplier on Settlement Run." End users can instead run the report "Supplier Payments" to obtain a list of invoices paid to a supplier during a particular settlement run.

Effective Friday, June 6 at 4 p.m., all accounts receivable write-offs will post to ledger account 65770: Bad Debt Expense. Historically they had been posting to 13200: Allowance for Uncollectables. The Controller’s Office is in the process of identifying write-off debit balances in the 13200-ledger account and plans to correct this via a central journal. Spend Category SC10660: Bad Debt Expense will now map directly to 65770. Historical corrections will be posted by the second June close.

The IT Computer Software (SC10396) and related expense item of IT Software are being decommissioned. These have been marked with do not use in the name (DNU) until the remaining transactions clear. For all software purchases moving forward, please utilize IT Computer Services – Software Maintenance and Licenses (SC10519) and the expense item Computer Services Software Maintenance and Licenses. Contact info for questions is in the full post.

Later this summer, updates will be made to the Supplier Invoice Request and Miscellaneous Payment Request processes to ensure proper classification and review of independent contractor relationships with the university. See full post for details.

Workday has increased the available lines of results under the Search Catalog link from 50 to 250 lines. Requestors should include a basic product or service description with any distinguishing features such as size, capacity, color, and supplier name for the best results. Only 41 of the 287 hosted catalogs under the search catalog link have more than 250 items so many catalogs can be viewed in their entirety with a search by supplier name alone. Contact the Marketplace Team with questions about searching in Buckeye Buy.

Local snack supplier, Al’s Delicious Popcorn has joined Buckeye Buy with a 682-line catalog of popcorn snacks in a wide variety of flavors. Products are available in various snack or bulk packaging. See Al's Delicious Popcorn contract book page (link in full post) for contract details and supplier contact information. This catalog can be searched by supplier name Al’s Delicious Popcorn, or just “popcorn.” Narrow your search by flavor for the best results.