This is a friendly reminder to units to clean up financial worktags that are no longer being used and submit inactivation requests through Workday. Prior to submitting worktag inactivation requests, ensure that the Inactivation Checklist has been completed and worktags show a zero balance. For more information, see the FDM Request Process for New Worktag Values job aid available in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC).
As part of a standardization project, the business teams have been reviewing notifications for the Requisition and Purchase Order Business Processes to help create consistency across each process. These enhancements will be completed on Monday, October 9 . The change described below will be made to help improve the end user experience.
The “Requested on behalf of” will be notified if someone else (the initiator) starts a requisition on behalf of them. The requisition requester (and Requested on behalf of if applicable) will be notified if the amount of the requisition is changed by someone downstream. The requisition requester (and Requested on behalf of if applicable) will be notified if anyone other than the requester of a requisition cancels or denies the requisition. For Requisitions, only PCard, Inventory Replenishment and Change Order Requisitions the system will notify the requester (and Requested on behalf of if applicable) at completion of the business process. For everything else notification will go out at the issuance of a Purchase Order. Prior approvers will all now be notified if a subsequent approver denies the requisition.
See the full post for a reminder about how Workday notifies initiators, reviewers and approvers as a Workday transaction moves through a business process.
Currently, purchase requisitions and spend authorizations are reported on the weekly confirmation email sent out to Principal Investigators (PI) on their relevant Grants. Additionally, non-PO Invoices and Expense Reports without Spend Authorizations will start to be included during the month of October. This is to ensure that our PIs can review additional non-personnel charges against their Grants via this weekly reporting.
B&H Photo will be closed in observance of Yom Kippur on Monday, September 25 and also for Sukkot on Friday, September 29 through Sunday, October 8.
Purchase orders issued during the closures will still be accepted but product will not ship until B&H reopens. Please contact the Marketplace Team at BF-Marketplace@osu.edu with questions.
A new training on Ohio State’s technology platforms, tools and resources is available for managers, manager liaisons, and administrative professionals. Build your foundation and confidence in using administrative technology that assists you in performing your work and managing employees. Human Resources team members will cover topics such as HR Connection, Workday, Microsoft 365, BuckeyeLearn and others, and guide you in finding and using tools that support your work. The Zoom training is offered the third Thursday of each month starting Sept. 21, at 10 a.m. Register for any session.
Customer Deposit functionality has been updated to enable users to add attachments for supporting documentation. Customer Deposits now has a new tab to include attachments when creating, editing, or revising the deposit. Anyone who has access to create and/or edit Customer Deposits will also have access to add/change attachments on Customer Deposit transactions.
A new monthly Workday notification and email reminder will be sent to individuals with effort certifications pending their approval for 30 or more days.
Earnings units subject to sales tax must ensure a cost center journal is recorded monthly for sales tax payable to Debit 42000 Revenue and Credit 20500 accrued sales tax. This has been added to the Monthly Unit Reconciliation Checklist .
Please enter the journal ID on the sales tax form and submit your sales tax information monthly to salestax@osu.edu .
The Controller’s Office centrally relieves this payable monthly to reflect that sales tax has been remitted to the state.
Cost Center Managers and Service Centers have a responsibility to ensure the appropriate spend category is used on all transactions.
Pay special care to non-catalog requests with items with a useful life of one or more years that are over the greater than $5,000 threshold and ensure an appropriate trackable spend category is used; otherwise, the transaction will not route for registration. The "Spend Categories – FDM Values" report can be run with a filter on "Spend Category is Trackable" to identify trackable spend categories.
It is recommended to run "Find Supplier Invoice Details – OSU" monthly for your CC/CCH with a Line Spend Category Hierarchy of "Non-Trackable" to review for any greater than $5,000 missed items that need to be manually registered.
It is also recommended to run "Find Expense Report Details – OSU" monthly for your CC/CCH to review for any greater than $5,000 missed items that need to be manually registered.
The Workday report "OSU Plan vs Actuals by Cost Center" will be decommissioned on October 9.
Individuals should utilize the report "Plan vs Actuals by Plan Worktag" as the alternative. If you have saved filters for "OSU Plan vs Actuals by Cost Center" they should be moved to the replacement report prior to October 9.
