Announcements

Bobcat BUY has upgraded its document (requisitions, Purchase Orders, and invoices) search feature to be more user friendly and “elastic”, meaning a faster search experience with more options to search and export.  This update was made on Monday, November 9, in Bobcat BUY as part of the 20.3 release up

OIT has moved our Oracle Business Intelligence (OBI) purchasing data to a data warehouse which allows us greater flexibility in creating more robust reports.  As a result of this change, we are in the process of making enhancements to our PO Summaryand Paymentsdashboards.  The

 Changes were recently made to the Cost Center Lookup Dashboard in OBI to exclude cost centers that have been disabled or end dated.  The dashboard was also modified to show only three-segment cost centers and removing activity and function from the view.  If you are unsure which activity or function should

CFAOs are responsible for approving and monitoring access to Oracle EBIZ responsibilities for users assigned to their planning unit.  In order to make that process easier and more convenient, a new dashboard has been created to assist in this process.

The following OBI Dashboard changes were deployed on the evening of July 21.   

In the past, when entering a JET entry, the Preparer field was not to be changed.  As the JET process continues to evolve, Finance has implemented a change which allows us to import both the logged in user’s Ohio ID (JET Processor) and the JET Preparer fields into E-biz.

Over the last few months, we have deployed some new changes to the OBI dashboards.

FARM Approvers

The dashboard now provides the option for selecting ICD approval roles in the prompts.  When using the Approvers by Org view, you can view the valid ICD approvers for any organization.

As of April 6, 2020, the Bobcat BUY home screen will have an updated look and feel, providing a more usable and cleaner workspace while providing more intuitive navigation.  There are very few changes to functionality, however a

Multiple changes are being implemented for the JET application and the JET template.  These will be implemented Monday evening and will go into effect beginning Tuesday, March 24, 2020. 

In Oracle eBiz, we use workflow approvals to process both Absence Management and ICD (Individual Compensation Distribution) transactions.