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Intelligent Promising

    Support configurable Kafka consumer assignment strategy for SIP Logstash components

    Customers need the ability to configure the Kafka consumer assignment strategy used by the following SIP Logstash components: sip-audit-logstash sip-iv-logstash sip-search-logstash When these pods restart, the associated Kafka consumer groups re...
    10 days ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

    Support automatic cleanup of SIP-created Kafka consumer groups during pod shutdown

    Business Requirement Customers operating SIP in containerized environments experience the accumulation of inactive Kafka consumer groups following pod restarts, scaling events, and pod termination. Over time, these inactive consumer groups increas...
    10 days ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

    Support configuration of Kafka producer properties for SIP internal Kafka interactions

    Customers operating SIP in large-scale Kafka environments need the ability to tune Kafka producer behavior for internal SIP Kafka topics to optimize network usage, batching efficiency, and storage utilization. Current Limitation IBM Engineering co...
    10 days ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

    Support Processing Time in Promising EDD/CalculateCheckoutAssignments (CCA) Calculations and optimizer calculations at delivery service level

    Business Requirement We use SIP Promising and Optimization to determine fulfilment options and estimated delivery dates. But Processing Time is not considered by the Promising service and Optimizer service at a delivery service level when generati...
    about 1 month ago in Intelligent Promising 0

    Restore Capacity-Aware Product Network Availability Calculation in Inventory Visibility (IV)

    Product Area Sterling Intelligent Promising (SIP) – Inventory Visibility (IV) Background Prior to the June 2026 release and the introduction of the new capacity model in Inventory Visibility (IV), Product Network availability calculations supporte...
    about 1 month ago in Intelligent Promising 0

    Enable Point-in-Time Snapshot for Trigger Node Availability by Date V2 Snapshot

    The current Trigger Node Availability by Date V2 Snapshot capability generates a snapshot of inventory availability when a job is submitted. While this is useful for obtaining the current state, it does not support generating a point-in-time (hist...
    about 2 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

    Support custom destination zones (geography groups) as a condition in SIP sourcing rules

    IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising (SIP) sourcing rules currently allow conditions to be defined on standard destination attributes such as country, state, city, and postal code, along with other order attributes. However, there is no way to defin...
    about 2 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

    Allow Promising calculation APIs to factor in a configurable remorse period when computing EDD, so post-checkout remorse hold delay is reflected in the delivery promise.

    The Promising calculation APIs do not factor in the remorse hold period when computing EDD. Remorse hold is a configurable post-checkout delay (e.g., 3–4 hours) during which the order is held and not scheduled/released for fulfillment, allowing th...
    4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 2 Under review

    Allow EDD and checkout-assignment APIs to accept a reservationId, consider the reservation when computing the promise, and continue sourcing rule evaluation.

    The following APIs should accept a reservationId (single or list, at header or line level) in the request payload. When present, the API should consider the reservation — using the held quantity at the reserved node or network as the basis for the...
    4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 2 Future consideration

    Include Item Custom Attributes in IV events

    We are currently using IV events both Delta and Snapshot to publish inventory data across different systems. However, we need to include an identifier in these event outputs to prevent unwanted updates between systems. For example, SystemA should ...
    10 months ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

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