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  • Change to Default Worktags for Retro Pay on Grants with Salary Over the Cap

    |January 26, 2024

    During the week of Monday, January 29, an enhancement for retro pay on grants for salary over the cap will change for specific job families. Currently, any retro pay on grants with salary over the cap defaults to over the cap worktags. After the change, retro pay no longer cap for the job families listed below. 

  • New Schedule for Mass Closure of Old Purchase Orders 

    |January 12, 2024

    To assist with the Year End Procurement Roll Forward process, the Controller’s Office will soon be analyzing and closing out old internal and external Purchase Orders (PO) which meet the following parameters: 

  • Business Process Notification Updates

    |January 12, 2024

    Supply Chain business process notifications continue to be reviewed to help create consistency across each process. The business process notification enhancements detailed in this post will be implemented during the weeks of January 15 and January 22.

    Week of January 15 enhancements:

  • Use New Internal Order Billing Supplier Invoice EIB Template After 5 p.m. on Jan. 31 

    |January 12, 2024

    The template to upload internal billing supplier invoices via EIB is changing. Beginning at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, January 31, users are required to use the new template. The current template will not work after 5 p.m. on January 31.

  • Business Process Approval Times – Miscellaneous Payment Request Reporting Enhancements

    |January 12, 2024

    Enhancements have been added to the output of both the "Business Process Approval Times – Miscellaneous Payment Request Detail" and the "Business Process Approval Times – Miscellaneous Payment Request Summary" reports. The enhancements include a new column on the output of each report to display the approval time for the workflow step “Accountant OSP.” This approval step will be added into the Miscellaneous Payment Request workflow as a part of the petty cash project.

  • New University-Wide Contract – Drop-off Catering Services

    |January 12, 2024

    A new university wide contract, Drop-off Catering services, was recently awarded to 18 suppliers by the Sourcing Team offering an array of foods available in Buckeye Buy.

    The awarded suppliers were vetted for catering services including:

  • New Charter Bus Contracts

    |January 5, 2024

    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.

    1. OSU TTM (Internal provider)
    2. Contracted Bus Companies: Miller, Cardinal, Baron’s
    3. Contracted Broker: STM
    4. Non-contracted providers

     

  • Period Activity Pay Issue from October Resolved

    |December 29, 2023

    As previously communicated in October, Cost Center Managers were encountering an error when completing Period Activity Pay (PAP), within the Hire process, when the proposed Cost Center was not their Cost Center.

    The workaround was to cancel the PAP and then initiate as a stand-alone process that would clear the error. Workday released a fix for this issue during the weekend of December 16 and now the step is working appropriately.

  • Love Data Week Feb. 12-16, 2024

    |December 29, 2023

    The Big Ten Academic Alliance is collaborating to celebrate Love Data Week. The international Love Data Week event is a means of celebrating “all things data” and seeks to bring people together to share their data experiences, learn data visualization best practices, and have fun during the process. Please reach out to Ohio State’s coordinator for Love Data Week, Maureen Henry, with questions.

  • Takara Bio USA Buckeye Buy Catalog

    |December 28, 2023

    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.