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OTDI’s Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS) team has made a few updates to the academic unit structure where academic appointments are maintained in Workday. The naming convention has been updated for 55 existing Academic Units, such as “Medicine, College of” to “College of Medicine” and added 53 new academic units, such as university centers and institutes.

Whether you’re new to leading people or have years of experience, you have access to resources to continuously grow and expand your skills. A training on Ohio State’s technology platforms, tools and resources is available to help people leaders use administrative technology. This eLearning covers the tools needed to perform your work and manage employees.

A new Workday internal career site has tools to help employees easily navigate and apply for open opportunities across Ohio State. The “Career” section is the primary spot for information related to open faculty, staff and student positions and can be found by clicking the “Menu” icon in the upper left corner of Workday.

The Workday "Effort Certification Status Report – OSU" has been updated to ensure terminated employees are included.

New “stand-in” supplier called “SIR New Supplier Request - SPL-0000012” was created to aid end users in submitting payment requests via "Supplier Invoice Request" when a new supplier is being requested.

Spend Authorizations and Expense Reports now permit the designation of a specific position for payees who hold split positions.

To match requirements outlined in the earnings operation policy, the Senior Fiscal Officer approval will now be required for all FDM requests that use the "New Earnings Operation" or "Edit Existing Earnings Operation" form types. Previously, these request types routed to both the SFO and the Cost Center Director roles for approval, and only one of these roles had to approve.

Coming Soon: Business Processes Awaiting Action – Journals:

To ensure the appropriate accounting for projects, it is important that considerations made to determine if project is Capital or not. To aid departments and units in making these determinations a detailed guidance document has been added to the B&F website.

To clarify the usage of the two project request sheets within the Project Intake and Capital Planning instance of Adaptive Planning, the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) will be completing the system enhancements described in this post, effective Thursday, February 15.