Tagged: Procurement

The Software Preapproval Process (SPP) in Workday is currently in soft launch. This new approval process streamlines the software purchasing process and aligns the required legal, security, and accessibility processes. Based on feedback received over the past several months, enhancements to the user experience and process flow will be implemented effective March 1.

Workday Strategic Sourcing Supplier Relationship Management was implemented on Thursday, January 29. This modern, secure portal is the new, unified “front door” for all OSU and Health System suppliers. Check out the full post for links to help materials including job aids and a BuckeyeLearn course.

Please do not begin entering FY27 blanket purchase orders until Monday, April 20. More information and detailed instructions on creating FY27 blanket purchase orders will be posted in a future Newslink article.

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.

A suite of eight new reports specific to earnings operations are now live. BuckeyeLearn courses showing a demo of each new report are also available. 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.

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.

We are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of Workday Strategic Sourcing: Supplier Relationship Management, which will be implemented during the week of January 26. 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.