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Inventory Visibility

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Out of the box purge agent for clearing entries in INV_INVENTORY_ITEM_LOCK table

As part of the Hot SKU implementation, Lululemon has enabled granular locking at the Item / Node / demand level by adding following properties in Customer overrides. This has improved the performance of the system by reducing database row lock co...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Publish In-Stock and Out-of-stock events only to COS Bucket

Currently, we cannot publish only the events to a cos bucket when the On hand inventory of an SKU becomes out of stock or comes back in stock. Instead, we are forced to use threshold values to control the publish, which is not very efficient. Ther...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Can we subscribe to the 'IV events' for different enterprises?

Events published based on separate inventory orgs, reduces the loads on the receivers, and it will increase the throughput.We are eagerly waiting for this enhancement from IBM, request you to please expedite this feature as soon as possible.
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Transaction ID should be treated as unique by Sterling IV regardless of when it is posted. This will help to avoid duplicate transaction updates into the Platform.

Currently, Sterling IV has the ability to not reprocess a transaction with the same transaction id only for 15 mins. But at BigLots, we have business cases wherein the same transaction can be reposted after 15 days to one month. We have discussed ...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Modify existing reservation

A network level reservation has been made against a Distribution Group. The consumer proceeds through the checkout journey and now that reservation needs to be modified and made at the node level (eg consumer has now chosen to pick up in store). W...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration

Ability to trigger the Supply or Demand buckets inventory picture for an item on demand/need basis

Currently client systems are subscribed to supply change and demand change events from IV over webhooks to reflect inventory buckets for client front end needs. For any missing events due to any reason, there is no functionality in IV to retrigger...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Include an Identifier to differentiate between the Inventory dbavailabilitycache message triggered by a delta vs full sync(publish_all trigger)

In our integration with IV services, we encountered scenarios where a full sync is being consumed by MW system and in the interim delta change comes in, the delta change processing is delayed because of the lengthy processing of full sync messages...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Modify UpdateItemRelationship API to support to multiple items

API Update Item Relationship can use to update one item relationship at once .
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration

OMS to IV item relationships

Currently no OOTB support to sync item relationships for items with variations between OMS and IV
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Order Hub UI should be displaying all the product classes and corresponding inventory similar to Legacy Inventory Management UI

Please refer to the attached document.
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration