Tagged: What's New

The Office of Business and Finance is pleased to share process and workflow enhancements, beginning with Travel, PCard, and Reimbursement processes in Workday. Informed by feedback from the President’s listening sessions, these updates are designed to reduce administrative burden, simplify requirements, and improve the overall user experience. See the full post for an overview of initial changes.

This post shares information about key dates for Summer 2026 tuition assistance (or fee authorization) processing as well as links to more information about the tuition assistance programs at the university.

The Controller’s Office is updating all FDM request forms to improve process efficiency, strengthen internal controls, reduce send-backs from the FDM Administrator, and ensure better security role alignment. These updates will also streamline inactivation requests and promote greater consistency in how worktags are used in the General Ledger. Changes are planned for production the last week of March. Read the full post for a summary of key updates, including clarified definitions, improved help text and job aids, workflow and security enhancements, and new Balancing Unit and Inactivation Request forms.

The Travel/PCard Office has implemented the Personal Expense Repayment Process. The updated process offers two options that will promote timely repayment, improve processing efficiency, and ensure responsible use of university funds. See the full post for details.

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.

If your department receives any Form 1099s for the university, please forward to the Tax Office at tax@osu.edu. The Tax Office reviews these to determine if there is any withholding that can be deducted on the university's tax return.

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.

On Thursday, January 29, real-time Global Address Lookup and Validation was implemented in Workday. This integration improves data integrity across 16 key HR and finance processes.

Seeing performance issues when searching in Workday? Check out the full post for troubleshooting tips that may help. For general search information, see Workday Search Overview in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC).

This post shares information about key dates for Spring 2026 tuition assistance (or fee authorization) processing as well as links to more information about the tuition assistance programs at the university.