associate products do not always cause event to associate
Associate products sent by admin do not always cause the events to associate. We can discuss whether to change PDL, or send an additional product from admin.
An associate product was sent between the usp0009fwb and ci9108652 events. The admin page correctly identified the conflicting ids, ci9108652 and cihectormi, and sent an associate product to override the same source different code business rule. However, since cihectormi was not the preferred id (usp0009fwb was), PDL did not merge the events as expected. Sending an additional associate product to associate the preferred IDs (ci9108652 and usp0009fwb) resulted in the expected PDL merge.
Option 1: update admin to send an additional associate product between preferred ids. Option 2: update PDL to correctly merge the two events.