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OMS - Intelligent Promising

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Node cut-off based on delivery options

Currently SIP does not support configuring node cut offs for different delivery options (standard home delivery/nominated home delivery/click & collect). Operationally fulfilment node (warehouse/store) could have different cut-off for differen...
6 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

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...
about 2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Enable IV to publish Node Availability events when Node Level Level safety factor changes or comes to effect

Consumers of IV have a local High/Medium/Low cache needs to get an update when there is a change in Node Level Level safety factor changes or comes to effect using the previous scheduled configuration to make sure they have up to date copy in cache
about 2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

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
about 2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 2 Future consideration

Enable IV to publish Network Availability events when Node Level or Network Level safety factor changes or comes to effect

Consumers of IV have a local High/Medium/Low cache needs to get an update when there is a change in Node Level or Network Level safety factor changes or comes to effect using the previous scheduled configuration to make sure they have up to date c...
about 2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Enable productAvailabilitySnapshot, dgAvailabilitySnapshot events available for container releases

The current SIP container releases does not have productAvailabilitySnapshot, dgAvailabilitySnapshot events - this is much needed as we ramp up onboarding new consumers to SIP IV
about 2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Inventory and Stock Management Issues

Problem: If products are frequently out of stock or there are issues with inventory management, it can lead to customer frustration, lost sales, and damage to the platform’s reputation.
17 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

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 ...
about 2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Under review

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...
about 2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Needs more information

SIP Promising: Limit Sourcing to a node if node capacity exhausted by 'x' days

Retailer stores are open shop floor and it cannot accept unlimited picking across days - as of now for Standard/Nominated Home Delivery and C&C to other store considers today and tomorrow's capacity and C&C now and Local considers today, t...
about 2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release