People & context

Ruth Oyelaran is a Principal Consultant at Meridian Consulting, the partner Acme brought in for the in-store production piece of the bakery workstream. She appears in the 2026-01-28 bakery scoping session alongside Ivan Petrov, where Meridian's proposed model — consuming a RELEX forecast while owning the production plan — was accepted by the RELEX side. 1–5 Her recorded contributions centre on operational detail and data quality. At the scoping session she asked how the bake-off splits by store format (Sofia Almeida answered that it varies, with big stores baking more) and pressed on feed reliability, asking how often "less often" meant for DC-2 feed failures; Lena Fischer answered roughly once a fortnight, noting Priya was not present. At the 2026-03-17 design workshop, Ivan Petrov proposed two intraday windows (morning and afternoon) as sufficient; Tomas Lindholm offered a fixed per-store, per-category profile derived from historical hourly sales, explicitly not a true intraday forecast. 6–13 Two open items touch her. First, ownership of the intraday profile re-derivation was left undecided at the workshop: Nadia Haddad declined to decide that day and placed it on the open items list with no owner, so it remains visible but unassigned. Second, on 2026-02-10 Ana Duarte forwarded the DC-2 incident log to Ivan and Ruth as promised at scoping; Marco Rossi then questioned whether the whole email chain rather than just the attachment had been sent, citing a 28 January agreement that the log went to Lena, who would decide what Meridian saw. Ana confirmed the whole chain was sent. Note: the incident log attachment itself is not in the supplied evidence; only the email exchange about it is. 14–19 Recommendation: in the next conversation with Ruth, seek an owner for the intraday profile re-derivation (currently on the open items list with no owner) and clarify with her and Ivan what Meridian actually received in the incident-log forward, given Marco's objection that the whole chain went out contrary to the agreed Lena-gated process. 14–16, 18, 19