Tagged: Supply Chain

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. 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.

Coming Monday, January 5, the naming convention used for two report suites and their corresponding dashboards and report groups will be changed to allow for more visibility when searching for the reports using the Workday search bar. See the full NewsLink post for details about this significant change.

A new "Approval Times - Software Request Details" report is available to review the approval times for each approval step in the request workflow for software preapproval requests. See the full NewsLink post for details about the new report.

A new "Spend Category" prompt has been added to the "Business Process Approval Times - Requisition Details" report. This new prompt has been added to allow users to see approval trends for requisitions with specific spend categories.

We’ve added a new “Only Return Trackable Values” checkbox to the “Spend Categories – FDM Values” report. When selected, the report will display only trackable spend categories—those that route to Asset Management for review. This enhancement makes it easier for departments to quickly identify trackable spend categories and supports Finance during requisition reviews.

On Friday, December 5, new prompts will be added to the "Payroll Accounting Adjustment Status" report to replace several existing prompts. Changes include one new "Worktags" prompt (for both current and proposed worktags) to replace the "Current Expense Worktags" and "Proposed Expense Worktags" prompts. Also new is an "Active Grant Hierarchies" prompt to replace the two current checkbox prompts for active grants called "Filter Option: Proposed or Current Uses a Grant" and "Filter Option: Proposed or Current Uses an OSP Grant." Lastly, the "Further Filter Options Below" will be removed, as it will no longer be needed to search using Cost Center Hierarchies or Active Grants. Note that end users with saved filters or scheduled reports with values in the prompts to be replaced will need to re-save filters and schedules once updates are made.

The "OSU - Find Assets" report prompts will be updated to include a new "Grant Hierarchies" prompt as well as a "Worktags" prompt. The "Cost Center," "Grant," and "Project" prompts will be removed as the new "Worktags" field allows users to search for those three types of worktags, as well as all others. Additionally, to allow users more flexibility in prompting, the "Cost Center" prompt on the report group "Financial Transactions Awaiting Action" will be replaced with a "Worktags" prompt. See the full post for more details and a list of affected reports.