SCM v2.21.0 Release Announcement
- Ragnar Gylfason
- Júlíana Björnsdóttir (Deactivated)
- Joice Tae Ozaki
The main change in the SCM v2.21.0 release is the addition of a new feature: Dual Boundaries.
Additional minor changes include:
Minor updates to alert email/SMS phrasing
Minor updates to shipment report phrasing
Improved logging of back-end components to monitor overall system health
Dual Boundaries
Description: Dual Boundaries is an add-on feature that allows customers to define temperature warnings for shipments based on a temperature range instead of the traditional single boundaries (upper or lower), as illustrated below.
Dual Boundaries follow the same principles as other boundaries when generating warnings. They can be added to shipment and warning templates in a similar manner, as illustrated in the design mock below.
Dual boundaries will appear in the SCM UI as shown below.
Note that the feature becomes available once Controlant has enabled it for that account.
Impact:
Once the SCM release goes live, the change won’t impact the user/customer until the feature is enabled.
If the feature is enabled, the impact is mainly applicable to the Create Shipment actions.
This will impact users responsible for maintenance and update.
Shipment and warning templates.
The procedure should remain the same for users creating shipments via templates and handling loggers at the receiving end.
Shipment reports and email/SMS alerts need minor updates to conform with the new boundaries. These are listed below in a separate section.
Impacted Requirements:
We added the following new requirements for this release:
Req. Id | Requirement Description |
|---|---|
SCMRS-547 | The shipment report displays the accumulated time the temperature has been outside each defined dual boundary for each logger in the shipment |
SCMRS-546 | The system will allow up to 800 hours and 50 minutes of accumulative tolerance limit on a dual boundary |
SCMRS-545 | Users can set severity status on each dual boundary |
SCMRS-544 | Users can set an accumulative tolerance limit on a dual boundary |
SCMRS-543 | Dual temperature boundary can be set to a maximum of 300°C |
SCMRS-542 | Dual temperature boundary can be set to a minimum of -237.1°C |
SCMRS-541 | The system warns the user if a non-supported logger is added to a shipment that has dual boundaries defined |
SCMRS-540 | CO 10.01 loggers or Saga loggers with firmware versions older than 2.3.0 do not support the dual boundary feature |
SCMRS-539 | Users can add and remove dual boundaries to warning templates |
SCMRS-538 | Users can add and remove dual boundaries to shipment templates |
SCMRS-537 | A maximum of six dual boundaries can be added to warning templates |
SCMRS-536 | A maximum of six dual boundaries can be added to shipment templates |
SCMRS-535 | There is a maximum of six dual boundaries per shipment |
SCMRS-534 | A dual boundary is a set of an upper boundary and a lower boundary. The value defined for the upper boundary must be greater than the value defined for the lower boundary |
SCMRS-533 | Users can add dual temperature warning boundaries to warning templates |
SCMRS-532 | Users can add dual temperature warning boundaries to shipment templates |
SCMRS-531 | Users can add dual temperature warning boundaries to a shipment |
SCMRS-530 | The dual boundary feature is a customer configuration. |
SCMRS-529 | The system supports dual boundaries: a pair of upper and lower temperature boundaries with a shared accumulative time tolerance limit |
Minor Changes
A summary of other minor changes:
Changes to alert email
We made minor adjustments to the email sent after a logger triggers an alert. See a snapshot of a sample email below:
The Controlant MARS team usually handles these alerts directly from the loggers, so the user impact should be minimal.
The main changes include:
Updated email alert text and structure.
Links to the web interface (login required) and the share shipment view (no login required).
Impacted requirements:
We added the following new requirements for this release:
Req. Id | Requirement Description |
|---|---|
SCMRS-286 | The system allows up to five users to be added as recipients to alert emails per shipment. |
Changes to shipment reports (PDF quality release report)
Dual boundaries will appear as below:
To align with the new addition to the solution, and to increase readability, the limit column for upper and lower boundaries will be updated as shown here:
Type | Previous | New |
|---|---|---|
Lower | <5°C | Below 5°C |
Upper | >25°C | Above 25°C |
After the changes, the “Limit” column will appear as shown here:
Impacted requirements:
We added the following new requirements for this release:
Req. Id | Requirement Description |
|---|---|
SCMRS-548 | Shipment report includes a summary of temperature warnings based on each logger assigned to the shipment. The summary shows details of each warning boundary and of the total accumulated time a temperature was recorded outside each defined warning boundary. |
Please get in touch with me with any questions or concerns at ragnar@controlant.com
Kind regards,
Ragnar Gylfason
Product Manager, SCM