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Weekly Meeting #33
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1. Participants & Attendance
Name | Company | Role |
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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 in testing and summary page to complete today
Basic testing at BCS has passed, but significant additional data will be required from Valio to support more detailed testing scenarios
Summary page is in progress and expected to be ready for testing from Monday
CPQ product bugs are still outstanding
Scripts to update CPQ from Price Manager not running automatically: fix worked briefly at BCS but now does not and investigating further with Zilliant
Date discrepancies on agreement creation, guidance retrieval and publish: fix to be delivered for testing on Monday
Cannot copy net priced items from another deal: fix tested at BCS and passed to Valio to confirm
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
Zilliant believe that the main performance issue is the number of API calls made to Price Manager, and we are working with them to reduce the number of calls which are required
For this reason, it is not believed that increasing the CPU power of the server would have much impact on performance at this stage
Some other bugs remain, but the above lists the main headings to be addressed before Soft Go-Live
3. State of Readiness for Soft Go-Live
Margin Calculations and Summary Page
Calculations for both Finished Goods and Product Groups have been tested at Zilliant so far as we can, based on the limited lookup data which was available 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 |
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VAL-598 | Valio guidance is giving wrong numbers | Numbers are not being updated because automated scripts are not running as they should. We have implemented detailed logging in the code, which has captured no data at all. This suggests to us that the jobs are not even being kicked off and that something is wrong with the mechanism that makes the scripts run every two minutes. We will be further investigating the set-up of this mechanism with Zilliant when we meet this morning. | tbc |
VAL-644 | New net price from PM to CPQ (net price process) | Same script automation issue as 589 above | tbc |
VAL-785 | Product mass replacement | can't find added products | Same script automation issue as 589 above | tbc |
VAL-740 | Deal start and end date | Diagnosed as a problem of dates held as date-time values, which can cause date to change between time zones. Fix in progress. | 02-Feb |
VAL-749 | Can’t copy net priced items from another deal | With Valio for validation | |
VAL-804 | Revision problem -> can't create revision (net price update) | Closed. Same underlying issue as VAL-749 |
Performance
Initial analysis is that the main cause of poor performance is the number of API calls which are made to Price Manager from CPQ. We are together investigating how we can best bundle up and minimise those calls, while still being able to display relevant and current information to the user in a timely manner. We have had some initial discussions and expect to progress these options next week.
Completion of MVP for Soft Go-Live
Soft go-live date remains uncertain while bugs and performance issues remain unsolved. We are now working more efficiently with Zilliant to resolve these issues, though performance work in particular is iterative and will complete when performance is at an acceptable level. We are working with Zilliant to obtain an outline plan for performance work and a target date which we can commit to.
4. Status of Changes
We now have a response from Valio to BCS’s list of changes, and discussions are ongoing.
5. Project Timeline
