2024-09-13 Acquisitions Meeting notes

 Date

Sep 13, 2024

 Participants

Alissa Hafele

John Banionis

Okay Okonkwo

Ann Crowley

Julie Stauffer

Owen Stephens

Daniel Welch

Kathleen Norton

Peter Breternitz

Dennis Bridges

Kimberly Pamplin

Peter Sbrzesny

Dung-Lan Chen

Kristin Martin

Sara Colglazier

Dwayne Swigert

Linh Chang

Sarah Kees

Heiko Schorde

Lisa Maybury

Scott Perry

Jackie Magagnosc

Lisa Smith

Susanne Gill

Jamie Jesanis

Martina Schildt

Susie Skowronek

Jean Pajerek

Mary Moran

Sven Thomsen

Joe Reimers

Masayo Uchiyama

Sylvia Hamann

 Agenda

Housekeeping -

  • Reminder - Dennis & Joe have Sprint meeting conflicts that they are only available for the first half hour of our Friday meeting.  Aaron has conflicts today that he can't attend. 

  • One meeting next week, Tuesday, Sept. 17th, at 1 pm EST

  • No meetings the week of Sept. 23rd due to WOLDFCon 2024

Business -

  • More claiming details to discuss with the group (Joseph Reimers)

  • Update on Acquisitions Integration small group meetings & progress (Dennis Bridges)

  • open meeting if anyone attending the meeting has something specific they'd like to discuss after Kristin's Product Council Update

PC Update (Kristin Martin) -

  • Product Council discussed new functionality planned for FOLIO Ramsoms:

Time

Item

Presenter

Notes

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Presenter

Notes

:01

Housekeeping

Dung-Lan

  • Reminder - Dennis & Joe have Sprint meeting conflicts that they are only available for the first half hour of our Friday meeting.  Aaron has conflicts today that he can't attend. 

  • One meeting next week, Tuesday, Sept. 17th, at 1 pm EST

  • No meetings the week of Sept. 23rd due to WOLDFCon 2024

:02

Claiming

Joe Reimers

  • Some libraries might have single vendor, but have to do different types of claiming depending on various circumstances. May need multiple claim integrations - different account #s, different for firm vs. ongoing, claims that go to different places, etc.

  • How to configure which integration goes with what type of order? Do we do that in the integration itself? Or do we go to the POL and say use this integration to claim.

    • POL - would require that integration is defined at the POL level. A lot of work

  • How to associate integration with a specific claim?

  • Maybe by order type? One-time and Ongoing

  • Do they have the same account?

    • Kristin Martin 8:08 AM
      For us, they have different sub-accounts

    • Where are the sub-accounts stored?

      • After hyphen

    • Sara Colglazier 8:09 AM
      For us subaccounts as well, but more than 2, too

    • Julie Stauffer 8:09 AM
      I am not certain there is reliable consistency that would allow exact matching in all cases

    • Lisa Smith, Mich State 8:09 AM
      We also have different subaccounts

    • Sara Colglazier 8:09 AM
      We have 3 subaccounts for Ongoing Orders for GOBI, for example

    • Kristin Martin 8:10 AM
      You don't want to know how many GOBI subaccounts we have.

    • Peter Sbrzesny | VZG 8:10 AM
      Usually there are separate accounts for monographs and subscriptions

    • Sara Colglazier 8:11 AM
      And you can have different subaccounts for subscriptions and what we think of as standing orders, and both are Ongoing orders in FOLIO

  • Define default integration and then match on subaccount with a dropdown of accounts could work

  • Account matching that would override the default

  • Right now with order integration matches on account number, do the same thing with claiming?

  • For order export, acq method determines whether particular order line should be automatically exported or not. E.g. - For purchase, automate export should equal true.

  • We have claim active, on order by order basis can choose which orders we would like to claim. Similar relationship between acquisition method and whether you would do claiming or not? Or not a similar situation?

    • ~ :14 Sara - I wouldn’t see it necessarily related to acq method. A lot of that changes over time how you interact with different vendors.

  • Since this looks like it will be a new accordion within organizations, this will not effect integrations already set up to use for ingesting invoicing for example?

    • Completely separate.

    • Integration type will be ordering and claiming. Eventually may add invoicing. Basically integration is a certain type ordering OR claiming. One or the other so cannot fight with each other.

    • Are adding ability to duplicate integration. Can duplicate order integration and change to claim if that would be helpful.

  • ~:16 - All routed through export manager. Add transmission method of download to create file. If you don’t have ftp and email not fully developed will always be able to download a file and email to vendor.

  • Sounds like we will be able to leverage account number to specify claiming

    • Peter Sbrzesny | VZG 8:18 AM
      Account number should be fine.

:

Acquisitions Integration small group meetings & progress

Dennis Bridges

  • Update on Acquisitions Integration small group meetings & progress

  • Value stream map - flow of information from one entity to another. Process underneath that. How workflow is actually carried out: select vendor, select material, create order, etc.

    • Assign time intervals to each part. (Time on average to select vendor, etc.)

  • Best to break down value stream map. Have more than one based on order type.

  • In next meeting talk about high level workflow

  • Take workflows and break down time components.

  • Once a clearer picture of where users spend their time in acquiring monographs and ongoing orders, then will review all suggested enhancements for integration.

  • Uncover what parts of workflow enhancements are targeting and assign impact score

  • Looking for opportunities to improve acquisitions workflow through integrations

  • May surface other enhancements as well

    • E.g. - receive pieces for multiple order lines at one time.

  • Can absolutely still participate if interested. Send Dennis a slack message and he will add you to scheduling invitation. - Will look for time after WOLFCon

  • Will these priorities impact or change topics already voted on?

    • Will be totally separate from voting in JIRA.

    • Not a way of prioritizing, but trying to assign an impact score, which basically is: How much of an impact would this thing make to our workflow? (Time saving, improved accuracy/fewer errors, quality of life, etc.) Summarize this as a number.

    • Voting process - 1-5 scale. Will have some discussion and try to reach a consensus

    • Just specific to integration discussion, will not appear in JIRA.

    • Will help organize thoughts on what are the most important things.

  • Meetings are being recorded, but recorded with company Teams. Think those can be pulled out and posted(?)

    • Would make sense to share if anyone is interested and didn’t get to participate or timing doesn’t work to join

  • Eventually will be JIRAs for things assigned impact score.

:31

PC Update

Kristin Martin

  • Product Council discussed new functionality planned for FOLIO Ramsoms:

    • 2024-09-05 Product Council Agenda and Meeting Notes

      • Two new modules: MARC migration and record validation

      • Will allow updates to the MARC to instance mapping for existing records

      • Will provide a validation framework within QuickMarc

      • Already approved by PC

      • Interesting demo from Khalilah

        • You need to fix this vs. warning label

    • 2024-09-12 Product Council Agenda and Meeting Notes

      • (Reading) room access

      • Ability to scan patrons to determine eligibility to use restricted spaces

      • In discussion period

      • Also coming in Ramsons

      • Doesn’t have active API at this time - has to be manual at the moment

      • Discussed other uses: maker space, special collections reading room, etc.

    • Next week: SIG Update meeting

      • 10 AM ET, Thursday

      • Oleksii to present on the Critical Service Patch process

      • All invited for discussion

      • How it’s been working, what we’re looking at in the future, etc.

 

 

Dung-Lan Chen

  • Any libraries willing to share / show and tell integration process - meeting in October

  • Will most likely plan for a Tuesday