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OMS - Intelligent Promising

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SIP Promise: Introduce Jurisdiction and Exclusion while calculating promise

Jurisdiction and Exclusion - Based on the Product Attribute and Shipping Group for Address whether Fulfilment allowed or not should be considered with in SIP promise to provide EDD and shipment assignments. This is required to manage carrier const...
2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Enable SIP IV Inventory consideration update in Order Hub (Custom Supply/Demand Match)

Currently Inventory consideration is not editable by Business users and is not allowing to onboard strategic Supply Integration with different Supply Type and make them considered for Promising after the reconciliation is complete
2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 2 Future consideration

Introduce Region definition in SIP and add regional sourcing rules set up similar to Sterling OMS

SIP does not allow managing region definition so that a given post code in the available to promise APIs input can be related to a region and promise calculation can use the region constraint defined as part of promising rules. SIP can easily supp...
2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

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 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

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...
5 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Adding custom attributes/object to demand entity

While capturing the demand in SIP, we want to collect, persist, and publish additional information associated with the Demand. This will help the demand data to be more informative to downstream systems.
over 1 year ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Capacity support for carrier services

- Ability to define capacity restrictions at carrier service level along with time slot offerings- Capacity restriction example: 10 orders/lines/units on specified days for "Next Day Delivery" at "Store A" and 15 orders/lines/units on specified da...
over 2 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Show shipment destination on the Optimizer Results Explainer Dashboard map

Currently the map shown in the Results Explainer Order Summary screen shows a Star icon for the node(s) selected to ship and a Dot icon for nodes considered. If you click on the icon the name/number of the node appears in a popup box. It would be ...
over 3 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Add Processing Cost configuration to track fixed fees

Add an additional configurable attribute for the Processing Cost model to track a fixed cost for the first item picked from a given node. This cost would be added to the existing variable processing cost (determined by item count) available today....
over 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Capability to consume and consider future demand forecasts and promotions

Add the capability for Order Optimizer to consume and consider future demand forecasts and promotions provided by the retailer. Enabling this added input would improve WOO's ability to predict stockout and markdown probability when a future change...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration