About the client
The client is a leading distributor of facilities, industrial packaging, and marketing solutions. They are experts in the supply chain, category management, forecasting and planning, product use, service, and training.
Solution
- Created a validation rule in Salesforce to allow only the orders dated less than two years to be uploaded into Salesforce.
- Analyzed their existing Data Loader CLI and incorporated a new logic to reduce the load and delete old data.
- Modified the query in Data Loader CLI and used a formula field that identified the date of the orders.
- A restriction on Salesforce and data Loader CLI query was placed to limit the number of uploaded and deleted records.
Benefits
- Reduced batch processing time by 50%.
- No recurring failures.
- Overall application performance improved by 40%.
- Storage space is maintained at an optimum level by a prescheduled data deletion process.
