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2000-06-08

 


6°C and clear skies at dawn greeting a warm and sunny day.

The transport costs adaptation was tested and prepared for delivery. I got a call from Loek concerning this. He has requested, tested and approved the change. He also showed it to the Norwegians who wanted it in the first place. And of course they were delighted, but ...

It is implemented as an order-header condition. Most simple orders go straight trough and the whole bunch is delivered in one go. If however something cannot be shipped the order can be split in sib-orders that get shipped separately. The splitting is caused by the company so the extra shipping cost is not billed to the client. The original shipping cost is invoiced with the second (or last) shipment. What happens now is that a client orders something he needs and adds something he doesn't need but that he knows cannot be shipped at the same time. The stuff he needs arrives and is invoiced without transport cost. Now he calls back and cancels the remainder of the order.
Result he gets rid of the shipping costs.

The reason why the header conditions are stuck on the last shipment is that, more often than not (but that is dependent on the local customs) the condition results in a price reduction. You pass that on the last shipment and few clients are going to cancel their last shipment. If you pass a reduction on the first shipment the customer orders something and adds something, undeliverable, he doesn't need but something that provides him with a healthy reduction. After getting the first shipment with the reduction he cancels the remaining shipments.
Sometimes thinking out business rules isn't easy. Especially if they get implemented in different countries. The Italians use lots of reductions while the Norwegians work most with added costs.
In the programs this has been changed a few times already. But I expect it will come to a head between Jan and Loek now and something new will be asked for. Like determining at the moment of defining the condition if it goes on the first or last shipment (or, maybe if it gets distributed).

Extra work coming my way.

And we got a presentation of an 'agronomy evaluation' tool. We all have to do some measurements about the size and positioning of our desk and screen and mouse etc. Recommendations about chair and desk heights and tools positioning are given. We must make sure every thing is positioned so it will not cause ergonomic problems (RSI some one?). If something cannot be set to the right condition we must report it trough the tool (everything gets recorded, even the things we are satisfied with). If needed new chairs and mice and other stuff can be provided. Colleagues and managers can not be replaced on ergonomic grounds however.
For one it is required by law that these agronomy things are checked and adapted. I guess it is also a way for the company to cover itself. If you don't mention a problem now you will probably loose the chance of claiming compensations later. That is just a guess. I am not employed by OCE itself but work there trough out-sourcing so I probably wouldn't have a chance on compensations anyway.

I'll be damned.
I cannot drop the day-by-day notes nor the week notes because I did put them in links on the
Calendar. And changing that is a lot of work and sloppy as well because the action of clicking on a day would not be consistent throughout the page. I must remember that for next year.


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