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1*** SYNTHETIC DATA. This transcript is entirely fictional. Acme Org, Meridian
2*** Consulting and every person named are invented. Any resemblance to a real
3*** organisation or individual is coincidental. Generated for the RELEX challenge
4*** track, AaltoAI Hackathon 2026.
6Meeting: Master data workshop
7Customer: Acme Org (Grocery Retail, EMEA)
8Date: 2024-09-24
9Phase: Implementation
10Attendees: Ana Duarte (RELEX), Kwame Boateng (RELEX), Priya Nair (Acme), Lena Fischer (Acme)
12Ana Duarte
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14AD
15Ana Duarte 2 minutes 35 seconds
16This is the session where we find out how bad the data
17Priya Nair
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19PN
20Priya Nair 2 minutes 41 seconds
21Mm-hm.
22Ana Duarte
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24AD
25Ana Duarte 2 minutes 43 seconds
26is. Kwame,
27Kwame Boateng
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29KB
30Kwame Boateng 2 minutes 50 seconds
31Yeah.
32Ana Duarte
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34AD
35Ana Duarte 2 minutes 54 seconds
36has been...
37Kwame Boateng
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39KB
40Kwame Boateng 2 minutes 57 seconds
41Yeah.
42Ana Duarte
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44AD
45Ana Duarte 2 minutes 59 seconds
46through the first extract.
47Lena Fischer
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49LF
50Lena Fischer 3 minutes 2 seconds
51Yeah.
52Kwame Boateng
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54KB
55Kwame Boateng 3 minutes 6 seconds
56I have. Do you want the good news or
57Kwame Boateng 3 minutes 14 seconds
58the number.
59Priya Nair
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61PN
62Priya Nair 3 minutes 17 seconds
63The number.
64Kwame Boateng
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66KB
67Kwame Boateng 3 minutes 22 seconds
68Case pack
69Priya Nair
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71PN
72Priya Nair 3 minutes 27 seconds
73Mm-hm.
74Kwame Boateng
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76KB
77Kwame Boateng 3 minutes 31 seconds
78quantity is missing on thirty-one percent of active articles.
79Lena Fischer
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81LF
82Lena Fischer 3 minutes 40 seconds
83Mm-hm.
84Priya Nair
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86PN
87Priya Nair 3 minutes 43 seconds
88I said a third and...
89Kwame Boateng
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91KB
92Kwame Boateng 3 minutes 50 seconds
93You did. Store master is clean. Product hierarchy is
94Priya Nair
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96PN
97Priya Nair 3 minutes 58 seconds
98Exactly.
99Kwame Boateng
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101KB
102Kwame Boateng 4 minutes 1 second
103clean. Supplier lead times are populated but I do not believe them,
104Lena Fischer
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106LF
107Lena Fischer 4 minutes 11 seconds
108Yeah, yeah.
109Kwame Boateng
1104:134:13
111KB
112Kwame Boateng 4 minutes 13 seconds
113because a lot them are exactly seven days, which
114Kwame Boateng 4 minutes 22 seconds
115is what you get when somebody.
116Priya Nair
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118PN
119Priya Nair 4 minutes 29 seconds
120That is what happened.
121Kwame Boateng
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123KB
124Kwame Boateng 4 minutes 36 seconds
125Sure.
126Kwame Boateng
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128KB
129Kwame Boateng 4 minutes 39 seconds
130And shelf life is populated on forty-eight percent.
131Lena Fischer
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133LF
134Lena Fischer 4 minutes 45 seconds
135Which of
136Lena Fischer 4 minutes 51 seconds
137those blocks us?
138Kwame Boateng
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140KB
141Kwame Boateng 4 minutes 54 seconds
142Case pack blocks ordering. You cannot order in units the supplier does,
143Kwame Boateng 5 minutes
144You're on mute.
145Kwame Boateng 5 minutes 3 seconds
146not ship. Lead times affect accuracy rather than function.
147Kwame Boateng 5 minutes 8 seconds
148Shelf life does not block anything for this phase because fresh is not in it.
149Ana Duarte
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151AD
152Ana Duarte 5 minutes 16 seconds
153And, so the critical path is case pack.
154Kwame Boateng
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156KB
157Kwame Boateng 5 minutes 24 seconds
158Yeah.
159Kwame Boateng
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161KB
162Kwame Boateng 5 minutes 28 seconds
163So...
164Kwame Boateng 5 minutes 32 seconds
165Case pack for the pilot cohort. Not the whole range.
166Ana Duarte
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168AD
169Ana Duarte 5 minutes 39 seconds
170actually How many articles is that?
171Kwame Boateng
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173KB
174Kwame Boateng 5 minutes 44 seconds
175For the cohort, about four thousand two hundred,
176Priya Nair
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178PN
179Priya Nair 5 minutes 48 seconds
180Yeah.
181Kwame Boateng
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183KB
184Kwame Boateng 5 minutes 49 seconds
185Where was I.
186Kwame Boateng 5 minutes 53 seconds
187of which roughly if you...
188Priya Nair
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190PN
191Priya Nair 5 minutes 58 seconds
192Thirteen hundred is doable. Thirteen hundred is two people for
193Ana Duarte
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195AD
196Ana Duarte 6 minutes 3 seconds
197Understood.
198Priya Nair
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200PN
201Priya Nair 6 minutes 7 seconds
202three weeks.
203Ana Duarte
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205AD
206Ana Duarte 6 minutes 12 seconds
207Yeah, yeah.
208Ana Duarte
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210AD
211Ana Duarte 6 minutes 14 seconds
212basically Do you have two people?
213Priya Nair
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215PN
216Priya Nair 6 minutes 19 seconds
217I have
218Priya Nair 6 minutes 23 seconds
219one and a half.
220Ana Duarte
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222AD
223Ana Duarte 6 minutes 27 seconds
224Then five weeks.
225Priya Nair
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227PN
228Priya Nair 6 minutes 34 seconds
229Yeah.
230Priya Nair
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232PN
233Priya Nair 6 minutes 38 seconds
234Then five weeks, and that puts us into November, and I want that
235Priya Nair 6 minutes 46 seconds
236reflected in the plan rather than absorbed quietly.
237Ana Duarte
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239AD
240Ana Duarte 6 minutes 53 seconds
241It will be but...
242Priya Nair
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244PN
245Priya Nair 7 minutes
246My team owns it, you support. so...
247Ana Duarte
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249AD
250Ana Duarte 7 minutes 8 seconds
251Mm, okay.
252Priya Nair
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254PN
255Priya Nair 7 minutes 9 seconds
256kickoff.
257Ana Duarte
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259AD
260Ana Duarte 7 minutes 12 seconds
261It is, kind of like
262Ana Duarte 7 minutes 17 seconds
263and I want want to say out loud that it was agreed before the recording started that
264Ana Duarte 7 minutes 28 seconds
265day, so it is only in my notes. I would rather...
266Lena Fischer
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268LF
269Lena Fischer 7 minutes 36 seconds
270Fair enough.
271Ana Duarte
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273AD
274Ana Duarte 7 minutes 39 seconds
275it were somewhere...
276Ana Duarte 7 minutes 44 seconds
277more official.
278Priya Nair
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280PN
281Priya Nair 7 minutes 49 seconds
282Then put it,
283Kwame Boateng
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285KB
286Kwame Boateng 7 minutes 55 seconds
287Mm.
288Priya Nair
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290PN
291Priya Nair 7 minutes 59 seconds
292in the workshop output and I
293Ana Duarte
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295AD
296Ana Duarte 8 minutes 2 seconds
297Yes.
298Priya Nair
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300PN
301Priya Nair 8 minutes 5 seconds
302will confirm by email.
303Ana Duarte
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305AD
306Ana Duarte 8 minutes 10 seconds
307Thank you.
308Lena Fischer
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310LF
311Lena Fischer 8 minutes 14 seconds
312While we are on the cohort. The regional managers have pushed back on forty stores.
313Ana Duarte
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315AD
316Ana Duarte 8 minutes 24 seconds
317Pushed back...
318Ana Duarte 8 minutes 31 seconds
319how?
320Lena Fischer
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322LF
323Lena Fischer 8 minutes 35 seconds
324Two of the three regions say they cannot support that many
325Ana Duarte
3268:438:43
327AD
328Ana Duarte 8 minutes 43 seconds
329Sure.
330Lena Fischer
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332LF
333Lena Fischer 8 minutes 45 seconds
334during their peak. So I have agreed to reduce it.
335Ana Duarte
3368:538:53
337AD
338Ana Duarte 8 minutes 53 seconds
339what?
340Lena Fischer
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342LF
343Lena Fischer 9 minutes
344Twenty-five. Spread the same way, I mean three regions, mixed formats.
345Kwame Boateng
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347KB
348Kwame Boateng 9 minutes 7 seconds
349Okay.
350Ana Duarte
3519:119:11
352AD
353Ana Duarte 9 minutes 11 seconds
354That is a material change to the plan and to the measurement baseline.
355Lena Fischer
3569:209:20
357LF
358Lena Fischer 9 minutes 20 seconds
359so I understand. It for the...
360Kwame Boateng
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362KB
363Kwame Boateng 9 minutes 27 seconds
364Twenty-five is is enough to prove it. It is thinner for measurement, so the results will be noisier.
365Ana Duarte
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367AD
368Ana Duarte 9 minutes 38 seconds
369Yes.
370Lena Fischer
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372LF
373Lena Fischer 9 minutes 39 seconds
374Yeah.
375Lena Fischer 9 minutes 43 seconds
376Noisier but real.
377Kwame Boateng
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379KB
380Kwame Boateng 9 minutes 46 seconds
381Yeah.
382Kwame Boateng
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384KB
385Kwame Boateng 9 minutes 50 seconds
386Noisier but real.
387Priya Nair
3889:549:54
389PN
390Priya Nair 9 minutes 54 seconds
391Mm, okay.
392Ana Duarte
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394AD
395Ana Duarte 9 minutes 56 seconds
396Right, so...
397Ana Duarte 9 minutes 59 seconds
398Then twenty-five,
399Priya Nair
40010:0210:02
401PN
402Priya Nair 10 minutes 2 seconds
403Right.
404Ana Duarte
40510:0510:05
406AD
407Ana Duarte 10 minutes 5 seconds
408and I will reissue the plan and the store list request. Priya, that changes what you send
409Ana Duarte 10 minutes 15 seconds
410me.
411Kwame Boateng
41210:2110:21
413KB
414Kwame Boateng 10 minutes 21 seconds
415Exactly.
416Priya Nair
41710:2410:24
418PN
419Priya Nair 10 minutes 24 seconds
420I will send twenty-five.
421Lena Fischer
42210:2710:27
423LF
424Lena Fischer 10 minutes 27 seconds
425Yeah.
426Ana Duarte
42710:3110:31
428AD
429Ana Duarte 10 minutes 31 seconds
430And can you note in the mail that...
431Ana Duarte 10 minutes 38 seconds
432it is twenty-five and why, because I do not want to be explaining this...
433Ana Duarte 10 minutes 46 seconds
434in six months.
435Priya Nair
43610:5310:53
437PN
438Priya Nair 10 minutes 53 seconds
439I will note it.
440Lena Fischer
44110:5810:58
442LF
443Lena Fischer 10 minutes 58 seconds
444you know Anything else?
445Kwame Boateng
44611:0311:03
447KB
448Kwame Boateng 11 minutes 3 seconds
449One thing. The extract I received has a
450Kwame Boateng 11 minutes 7 seconds
451column I did not
452Kwame Boateng 11 minutes 13 seconds
453expect. There is an operator identifier on some of the movement records.
454Priya Nair
45511:2211:22
456PN
457Priya Nair 11 minutes 22 seconds
458Got it.
459Priya Nair
46011:2611:26
461PN
462Priya Nair 11 minutes 26 seconds
463Which records?
464Kwame Boateng
46511:3311:33
466KB
467Kwame Boateng 11 minutes 33 seconds
468Write-offs, mostly.
469Priya Nair
47011:4011:40
471PN
472Priya Nair 11 minutes 40 seconds
473Right.
474Priya Nair
47511:4211:42
476PN
477Priya Nair 11 minutes 42 seconds
478so We do not need to send you
479Kwame Boateng
48011:4911:49
481KB
482Kwame Boateng 11 minutes 49 seconds
483I do not need to receive it.
484Ana Duarte
48511:5711:57
486AD
487Ana Duarte 11 minutes 57 seconds
488Right.
489Priya Nair
49012:0112:01
491PN
492Priya Nair 12 minutes 1 second
493Then let us take it out.
494Ana Duarte
49512:0412:04
496AD
497Ana Duarte 12 minutes 4 seconds
498Mm-hm.
499Ana Duarte
50012:0712:07
501AD
502Ana Duarte 12 minutes 7 seconds
503Is that
504Lena Fischer
50512:1312:13
506LF
507Lena Fischer 12 minutes 13 seconds
508Yes.
509Ana Duarte
51012:1712:17
511AD
512Ana Duarte 12 minutes 17 seconds
513a change request?
514Priya Nair
51512:2112:21
516PN
517Priya Nair 12 minutes 21 seconds
518like It is a five minute change. I will put it on the
519Kwame Boateng
52012:3112:31
521KB
522Kwame Boateng 12 minutes 31 seconds
523Mm-hm.
524Priya Nair
52512:3212:32
526PN
527Priya Nair 12 minutes 32 seconds
528list.
529Kwame Boateng
53012:3612:36
531KB
532Kwame Boateng 12 minutes 36 seconds
533Thank you.
534Ana Duarte
53512:4212:42
536AD
537Ana Duarte 12 minutes 42 seconds
538Yeah.
539Ana Duarte
54012:4612:46
541AD
542Ana Duarte 12 minutes 46 seconds
543Noted as an action.
544Lena Fischer
54512:5312:53
546LF
547Lena Fischer 12 minutes 53 seconds
548Yeah.