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OMS - Intelligent Promising

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API and Events to provide Fulfillable Availability (available quantity that are fulfillable) by doing sourcing rule discovery to get distribution group or nodes or node types to generate network availability

Omnichannel Retailers would require to show what is the available quantity that are fulfillable to their customers based on where they are getting it delivered to / collected from (regional sourcing), what are the various product attributes (such ...
3 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

Ability to set EventThreshold at Node and DeliveryMethod level

Why is it useful? It provides ability to just publish only SHP or PICK Inventory Events (either Node or Dg level). Because in many of the IV implementations, where there is no separate Availability for SHP and PICK. In such cases, currently, the r...
16 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

Allow different Node Balancing Cost (NBC) parameters by Service Level Agreement (SLA)

The SLA configuration we have loaded has values of Standard, 1Day, and 2Day. Is it possible to have different node balancing configuration values (Tiebreaker cost, Backlog Threshold, Overcapacity Penalty) for each node that vary by SLA? For exampl...
24 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

The max carrier service capacity should be considered by SIP Optimizer when selecting a carrier service

During holidays, ULTA have carrier services that impose caps on the number of packages. For example, they only want to ship 1000 packages using Fedex Ground for that day. Any more packages cannot be shipped by Fedex Ground on that day. So SIP Opti...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

include attachment with error info in email indicating ingestion failure

Creating this cause as directed in case TS017610463 Configuration file data is loaded into SIP-Optimizer via the file transfer adapter https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/intelligent-promising?topic=id-downloading-installing-configuring-sterling-intellige...
about 1 month ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

SIP: Reservation api for a distribution group to consider shortage quantity for nodes associated to a DG

Reservation API against a distribution group, should consider shortage quantities of nodes within DG and restrict reserved quantities to consider shortage. When a reservation api is invoked for an item and utilizing the entire network (distributio...
2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Under review

Enhance Safety Stock Rules with Relational Operators (Eg: '>', '<') for extended attributes

Problem: Currently, in case of extended attributes, safety stock rules only permit the use of the equality operator (=) for setting rule conditions. This limitation restricts the flexibility and granularity of safety stock management, particularly...
3 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Calculate and publish Inventory Availability Based on Item Assigned Attribute Changes

Existing inventory availability calculations do not automatically adjust to changes in custom item attributes ( ItemAssignedAttribute ) leading to potential inaccuracies in stock levels and order fulfillment. For example, if the department value i...
3 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Capability to update Item extended attributes.

In SIP, PATCH itemAssignedAttributes should have capability to modify or override the value in the collection field "values" of the existing itemAssignedAttribute.
8 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Functionality already exists

SIP: Implement Priority Based Sourcing Rules in Sterling Intelligence Promising

Priority of shipnode in Distribution group is not working while calculating estimated delivery date using Calculate item delivery or pickup date using finite capacity windows API. Customers need Ship Node Priority Based Sourcing” in SIP
10 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 2