Ray will present the future plans of SPI Buyer Direct. Presented by Ray Goodman (Senior Product Owner of SPI Buyer Direct, SPI) at the 2016 SPI Conference.

1. The
SPI Buyer Direct
Roadmap
RAY GOODMAN

2. Current
State
Product
Owners
Release
Schedule
Release
Process
Roadmap
Agenda

3. Current State
• Instituted new product management and development
processes
• Improved customer support
• Release 15.0.0 available September 1, 2016
• Rebranded SPI Buyer Direct
• Enhancements to SPO (Expedite Purchase Orders)
• New UI for Dynamic Reports
• Size Templates for Forecast*21
• Weeks of Supply for transfers in Multi-Echelon
• Support for Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

4. Product Owners
• Set the direction for features in each product
• Determine what is being offered
• Determine when it will occur
• Work closely with development
• Review QA processes
• Review documentation
• Work with marketing to produce collateral

5. Product Owners
• Ray Goodman – SPI Buyer Direct
• Mary Paulsen – SPI Buyer
• Tony Brixey – SPI IQ

6. Release Schedule
• Three releases per year
• Each release will contain
• New features
• Customer suggestions
• Infrastructure enhancements
• Bug fixes
January
15.1.0
May
15.2.0
September
16.0.0

7. Release Process
• Review all open suggestions and score them
• Those that are scored lowest are dropped
• Highest scored suggestions are prioritized
• Enhancements selected
Design Development
Quality
Assurance
Regression
Testing
General
Availability

8. Roadmap January 2017 – 15.1.0
• Forecast*21 and Venture*21
• Expand Size Template functionality to auto-assign and auto-update
• MAPS
• Additional MSRP and Margin calculation fields
• Simplify creation of Placeholder items
• Ability to apply percentage increase/decrease to products and groups
• New metrics for Units/Week and Revenue /Week
• Security
• Add support for case sensitive login ids

9. Roadmap May 2017 – 15.2.0
• Integration
• Define and build integration process with SPI Buyer Assortment
Planning
• Master Scheduling
• Add product images to hotlists
• SPI Conference enhancements
• Infrastructure updates
• Others

10. Roadmap September 2017 – 16.0.0
• Integration
• Design and build integration with SPI Buyer Purchasing
• Venture*21
• Real time publishing
• Forecast*21 and Venture*21
• Revenue summary over time reporting
• SPI Conference enhancement(s)
• Infrastructure updates
• Others

11. Contact Me
•Ray Goodman
Email: ray.goodman@spi.com
Phone: 770-709-3342