New charter bus services contracts have been awarded through a competitive bid process. These contracts are available in Buckeye Buy Marketplace Quotes for university-wide use and are primarily intended for trips originating within Ohio.
The order of preference for securing chartered transportation services is listed below.
A new catalog from life sciences supplier Takara Bio USA is available in the supplier website section of Buckeye Buy for university users. See the Business and Finance Takara Bio USA catalog page for more information on Ohio State's contract with this supplier.
The existing hosted catalog from Takara BIO USA will be removed at the close of business on Friday, January 5. Contact the Marketplace Team with catalog or order placement questions.
Some Supplier Invoice and Supplier Invoice Requests enhancements will be moved to production the week of Monday, December 18.
Notification Updates for Supplier Invoice Requests:
During the week of December 11, enhancements will be made to select Buckeye Buy items that will allow the commodity code to automatically populate on purchase requisitions. During the transition, requests to add or update affected items will be held until maintenance is complete. The estimated maintenance complete date is Friday, December 15.
For UNIV purchases only - If the commodity code is not automatically populated, the commodity code field is not required.
Effective the week of November 13, new exception fields will be created for Requisitions and Supplier Invoice Requests to help users with their exception tracking.
In "Requisitions," Service Centers will now be able to:
To improve transparency into the supplier invoice request process, the Service Center Lead Approval step will be moved up in the business process from the supplier invoice where it currently resides to the supplier invoice request, keeping it streamlined within the same business process. This change is to improve transparency and align with other similar financial transactions in Workday.
As part of a standardization project, the business teams have been reviewing notifications for the Requisition and Purchase Order Business Processes to help create consistency across each process. These enhancements will be completed on Monday, October 9. The change described below will be made to help improve the end user experience.
B&H Photo will be closed in observance of Yom Kippur on Monday, September 25 and also for Sukkot on Friday, September 29 through Sunday, October 8.
Purchase orders issued during the closures will still be accepted but product will not ship until B&H reopens. Please contact the Marketplace Team at BF-Marketplace@osu.edu with questions.
New tips and tricks information on the Requisitions process has been added to the Business and Finance website. This provides users with an overview of the business process and a crosswalk to additional resources.
Our warehouses have thousands of items including beverages, breakroom supplies, buffers, chemicals, copy paper, gas cylinders, gloves, lab supplies, nitrile, office products and OSU branded items.
For a quick and effective search of Ohio State Stores products available to order through Workday, click on the search catalog link, enter a brief but detailed product description, and click the Inventory box in the left margin, as shown in the screenshots below.