Coming in May, we are making strides to improve the purchasing experience in Workday.
What’s Changing:
Coming in May, the Buckeye Buy shopping experience will transition from the current third-party website (GHX Procure) to being all self-contained within Workday.
Bringing the Buckeye Buy experience directly into Workday simplifies the “shopping” process for end users. It also allows end users to see the different stages of their orders through the procure-to-pay lifecycle.
What benefits will we get from doing this?
Buckeye Buy catering orders for Columbus campus events must be placed through the Catering Marketplace. The Catering Marketplace is a multi-supplier round trip catalog of drop-off and full-service caterers and event equipment rental suppliers.
Newark Corporation offers a full selection of electronic components at discount pricing in their RoundTrip (punch-out) catalog in Buckeye Buy. Newark is a recent awardee of Ohio State contract SPC-100006568 22-Electronic Components-Newark.
Batteries Plus offers batteries and other power supply products for multiple applications in their RoundTrip (punch-out) catalog in Buckeye Buy. Product pricing is up to 73% off retail, based on the E&I Cooperative contract SPC-1000006636 - UNIV: CNR01505-BPB.
Digi-Key Electronics will join Buckeye Buy on Wednesday, June 1 with a round trip (punch-out) catalog of electronic components and supplies. Contract and catalog details are available on the contract book page https://busfin.osu.edu/document/digikey-electronics.
There are several recent supplier name changes in Buckeye Buy. The links shared access current contract details information and will eventually change with the new naming.
New Skilled Trades Supplier catalogs are available in Buckeye Buy.
Contract and catalog details for Skilled Trades Services suppliers are available in the Purchasing contract book. (https://busfin.osu.edu/buy-sell-travel/purchasing/find-supplier?combine=&category%5B%5D=121)
Asbestos technical services:
A new RoundTrip (punch-out) catalog from laboratory products distributor, Neta Scientific is available in Buckeye Buy.
See contract book page for contract details and supplier contact information. A custom quote feature will be available in the catalog in May.
Blanket orders are used for transactions that occur very frequently (daily or multiple times a week), have a high variation of product types, have undetermined timing, and are not available in Buckeye Buy. This reminder is being shared in advance of the revised job aid being available. The job aid will be posted to the Administrative Resource Center by April 18 and linked to this communication.