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The University Procurement/AP open Office hours will continue monthly through FY23.  Each monthly session will be held at 1 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month. Use the MS Teams link to join.  

The updated schedule is as follows.

The "Credit Card Transactions - OSU" report has been enhanced to provide more flexibility and details to assist areas in researching and resolving unexpensed transactions. See the summary of enhancements listed below. 

Updated Column:

Many policies have been updated across Business and Finance, including minor revisions and substantive changes. Some people have reported seeing outdated policy documents due to information being saved in their web browser history. The policies.osu.edu site will show the last edit date of the policies, and the document that you view should have the same revision/edit date (found at the very bottom of the policy).

If you see an outdated revision, please use the steps listed below as a guide to clear old information from the browser.

Two drop-in office hour sessions will be available in July. The sessions will be focused on year-end needs and allow units to stop in if there are questions related to finance or supply chain as we approach year-end close. No formal agenda or material will be presented.

Several enhancements have been applied to the "Find Spend Authorization Summary - OSU" and "Find Spend Authorization Details - OSU" reports to allow greater flexibility and clarification of report fields.  See the summary listed below for changes to each report. 

Find Spend Authorization Summary - OSU: 

Added columns to the report output: 

• Cost Center Hierarchy 7
• Cost Center Hierarchy 8 

Enhanced Report Prompt:

A searchable listing of contracted suppliers in the Purchasing contract book is now accessible on the login screen to Buckeye Buy.

Suppliers can now be searched by keyword, product category, certifications, and designations such as MBE, EDGE, Buckeye Buy, etc. See screen shots below for a visual preview.

Contact BF-PRSM-OSU-PUR@OSU.EDU with questions about the contract book. 

In recognition of recent gasoline price increases, the IRS made this special adjustment for the final six months of 2022.

Effective July 1, 2022, the mileage reimbursement rate will increase from 58.5 cents per mile to 62.5 cents a mile for all business miles driven from July 1, 2022 through Dec. 31, 2022. Workday will be updated to ensure accurate expense report processing.

Expenses related to the tuition assistance benefit for eligible graduate students (graduate fee authorizations or GFA) are posted during the ninth week of the semester. For Summer 2022, expenses will post on Wednesday, July 6. 

This is a reminder that bottled water services should only use the following spend category and commodity code combination.  

Bottled Water Services

• Spend Category: SC10410 – Beverages-nonalcoholic
• Commodity Code: 502022301 – Water

Some requisitions have been submitted that are incorrectly using Spend Category: SC10502 – Utilities-Chilled Water when ordering bottled water is what was intended.

A downloadable Year-end Checklist for Finance and Supply Chain activities is available under the "I want to..." heading found on the Business and Finance website's Controller page.