Weekly Meeting #32

Date	23 Jan 2026

1. Participants & Attendance

Name	Company	Role
Emmi Kaipia	Valio	Head of Business Development
Teemu Salonen	Valio	Pricing Analyst
Tomi Toivonen	Valio	Pricing Manager
Omar Bendada	Ben Consulting Services	Business Analyst
Peter Jarvis	Ben Consulting Services	Project Manager

2. Progress Summary

Three principal outstanding issues to resolve to deliver an MVP for Soft Go-Live
- BCS to implement margin calculations and summary page
- Zilliant to resolve three outstanding bugs
- Zilliant, supported by BCS, to get the performance of CPQ to an acceptable level
Margin calculations are ready for testing
- Development for Finished Goods and Product Groups both completed this week
- Basic testing at BCS has passed, but significant additional data will be required from Valio to support more detailed testing scenarios
CPQ product bugs are still outstanding
- Scripts to update CPQ from Price Manager not running automatically: fix received and confirming at BCS
- Date discrepancies on agreement creation, guidance retrieval and publish: fix has issues still
- Cannot copy net priced items from another deal: fix fails intermittently
Performance to be addressed once functional issues are complete
- Some improvements made already, but still not acceptable
- Scripts have been reviewed by Zilliant technical teams and some suggestions received
Some other bugs remain, but the above lists the main headings to be addressed by 23rd Jan

3. State of Readiness for Soft Go-Live

Margin Calculations and Summary Page

Requirements are fully clear
We have tested the basic calculations at Zilliant so far as we can, based on the limited lookup data which is currently held in CPQ
Before going fully live this feature will require more extensive testing against more complete scenarios, which in turn will require more complete test data to be uploaded to CPQ; this is in hand with the Valio project team
We believe nevertheless that we can still proceed to a soft go-live with this beta version, which in itself will provide more test scenarios

Bugs With Zilliant for Resolution

Ref	Description	Status	Delivery Date
VAL-598	Valio guidance is giving wrong numbers	Immediate issue fixed and correct guidance is now retrieved from CPQ Script for updating guidance from PM to CPQ was not running on automated schedule, hence guidance in CPQ was not current Zilliant has fixed the script issue and we are running further tests to confirm it now works	27th Jan
VAL-644	New net price from PM to CPQ (net price process)	Same script automation issue as 589 above	27th Jan
VAL-607	CPQ and PM dates not in sync
VAL-740	Deal start and end date	Fix received as promised but it does not work consistently Seems to be a problem of dates held as date-time values, which can cause date to change between time zones, and a problem of inconsistent times applied to different date fields Bug passed back to Zilliant for resolution	tbc
VAL-716	Can’t set prices on lines screen
VAL-749	Can’t copy net priced items from another deal	Fix delivered as promised last week, but it seems to work very inconsistently: issue seems to be solved then it reappears Zilliant think that a script may be removing currency from agreements; have asked for assistance in isolating where this may be happening	tbc

Performance

The principal issue is that it was taking 10-15 minutes to add a Product Group. We have implemented some suggestions from Zilliant into the relevant scripts and this has reduced to 3 minutes or less. However, Save now takes 7 minutes. We have shared our scripts with Zilliant and their technical teams have responded with some further suggestions on 21st Jan. We will investigate these suggestions next week.

Completion of MVP for Soft Go-Live

Soft go-live date remains uncertain while bugs and performance issues remain unsolved. We have escalated within Zilliant and have requested that they work with us to create a joint plan which both parties can commit to.

4. Project Timeline