Beginning Thursday, October 24 , two new fields will be added at the header level of a requisition. These new fields are "Freight" and "Other Charges." This change will allow end users to account for any freight or additional handling charges noted on a quote without adding a line item to the requisition. Amounts entered in these fields will carry over to the corresponding purchase order to allow for invoice matching. Please note, the freight and other charges amounts will add to the purchase order encumbrance and will liquidate once invoiced.
Several reports will have two new columns added to the output of the report, one for "Freight" and one for "Other Charges." These changes are related to the ability to add these amounts to the header of a requisition. The reports updated are listed in the full post.
Two supplier invoice matching rules will be updated on Thursday, October 24 . The changes detailed in the full post will be made for the University only.
A new column has been added to the "Find Journal Lines - OSU - Posted Journals by Amount Type" report to display the Stock Request Number for journal lines with an Inventory Shipment journal source. This is to allow end users to trace a shipment back to the original requisition submitted for the order.
Two Payroll Accounting reports have/will be updated based on some user feedback.
The "Payroll Accounting Adjustments Status" report has been updated as of October 17 . The "Created By" field has been replaced with the "Initiating Worker" and "Initiating Worker's Employee ID" fields so that this information is visible to all report end users. A column with approver information has also been added, titled "Approved by Workers."
Additionally, the "Payroll Funding - Period Activity Pay" report will be enhanced on October 23 with the changes detailed in the full post.
The "Cost of Sales" worktag changes listed below are coming soon.
Validations on Expenditure Treatment (ET101)
Next month, Workday validations will be placed in various spend business processes to ensure the cost of sales expenditure treatment worktag can only be utilized by approved university earnings operations (Funds FD120, FD121, FD122 and FD200). As a reminder, use of the ET101 expenditure treatment drives the transaction accounting to the cost of sales ledger account (61020). Please refer to the university earnings operation policy for additional guidance and the full definition of cost of sales.
Inactivation of Cost of Sales Spend Category (SC10258)
The Cost of Sales Spend Category (SC10258) will be inactivated for future use, as it does not meet the definition of spend category. ET101 plus the appropriate earnings fund value should be used to designate cost of sales.
The "Find Transaction Summary Reports" report group has been created to help end users run multiple reports with a single set of prompts. This report group will render results for the summary report groups in the following areas: Requisitions, Spend Authorizations, Expense Report, Miscellaneous Payment Requests, Supplier Invoices, Supplier Invoice Requests, and Purchase Orders. The output of all these reports is compiled and downloaded into one Excel file for end user convenience. Pivot tables have been added on a tab in the Excel output summarizing the report statuses.
The Nelnet Commerce Manager training is a half-hour course and introduction to using Nelnet Commerce Manager. Nelnet Commerce Manager is a simple but flexible option for accepting credit card payments online. As a payment collection gateway, a website or an existing application can redirect customers to Commerce Manager to securely process credit card transactions or integrate payments through a Qualtrics survey. Commerce Manager can also be set up as a standalone site to sell simple individual items (for example, a ticket to a fundraising dinner) or to collect customer information (order number, invoice number, etc.) and accept payment in an amount entered by the customer. This course includes demonstrations using the tool including finding a transaction, canceling a transaction, processing a refund, and building and running a report. These processes are documented in a new Nelnet Commerce Manager job aid in the Administrative Resource Center (ARC).
A new feature, Workday Assistant, has been enabled that provides more relevant and useful search results in the new Simplified Search view
Workday Assistant uses natural language processing, so in many cases, you will not need to match Workday terminology exactly to get relevant results. And depending on your search, the information you are looking for may be included in the search results, no additional navigation necessary.
The changes described are scheduled to be moved to production during the week of Monday, October 7 . Based on user feedback, the "Sources and Uses – Variance Analysis" report was updated to provide a streamlined solution for viewing Actuals and Encumbrance columns side by side. Encumbrance and Pre-Encumbrance columns have been added alongside the existing Actuals and Plan columns. This will allow users to compare actuals and outstanding encumbrances to plan estimates in a seamless way. Additionally, new dynamic column headings were added to the report to provide greater clarity to the selections made at report runtime that drive the values in the Plan and Forecast columns.
A summary of these changes is listed in the full post. Questions or concerns with these updates can be sent to ctl-businessprocesses@osu.edu .
