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A new series of reports will soon be released to provide approval times for each approval step on various transaction types. These transaction types include Requisitions, Spend Authorizations, Expense Reports, Miscellaneous Payment Requests, Supplier Invoice Requests, Supplier Invoices, and Purchase Order Change Orders.    

Three new reports are available in Workday that are based on existing reports, but are configured to allow for trending and comparison of financial information on a monthly and annual basis. See a description of each new report below. 

Equity Balances by Balancing/Carry Forward Worktags - Monthly Trending:

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.

The previously reported issue related to Miscellaneous Payment Requests has been corrected. To recap, The Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS) team received reports from Accounts Payable of a high volume of Manual Send Backs, automated by Workday, when certain attributes were updated on the Payee record, while Miscellaneous Payment Requests were "In Progress."

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.

Last updated 10/13/23

Coming in October 2023, Internal Service Providers (ISPs) will use a new process in Workday to invoice other internal departments or units at Ohio State. The Internal Order Billing (IOB) process replaces the need to create an Internal Service Delivery (ISD) to bill other internal departments and units for both the university and the Health System.

Beginning July 2023, a new expedited review process is available that allows Senior Fiscal Officers (SFOs) to sign procurement agreements when specific criteria are met. Review the Procurement Agreement Terms and Conditions Expedited Review Process Guide and FAQ document for more details.

The Spend Authorization Roll-forward Journal was processed to roll-forward spend authorization encumbrances for FY24. In your FY24 Financials, these pre encumbrances will post on the journal source titled "Spend Authorization Roll Forward" for any non-expensed spend authorizations as of the June cut off with remaining encumbrances.

In mid-October 2023, OTDI will be moving the foundation of the PeopleSoft-based Student System known as PeopleSoft Student Information System (SIS), to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) platform. Any direct links into SIS will be changing. OTDI Student System support staff have already begun sharing the guidance below for URL changes to ensure any affected links are updated along with the move to AWS.

This article shares information about key dates for Autumn 2023 tuition assistance (or fee authorization) processing as well as links to more information about the tuition assistance programs at the university.