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PINNED Add support to controllerWorkflow script to restart BPs that are in "completed, error" state by individual BP IDs
During system issues, we are unable to bulk restart the BP IDs at a time. This is causing huge support effort in the clean-up process. Existing controllerWorkflow.sh script doesn't have a solution to restart the BPIDs that are in "completed, error...

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Multiple Carrier Service Support in "Calculate Preorder Shipment Assignments"

Ability to return multiple carrier services in response based on fulfilling node together with common carrier services at cart level- E.g. Cart with 2 lines Line 1 - Node (DC1) - Returns "Standard Delivery", "Next Day Delivery", "Saturday Delivery...
over 3 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Sync Supply to have a capability to just report the mismatches and not apply the differences.

We want a capability in SIP to just report / publish an event with the mismatches evaluated during the inventory synchronization flow and not always apply the same. Something similar to the " ApplyDifferences " capability in the GIV world. There a...
over 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Functionality already exists

Split Shipment report

Split Shipment reason code: Split due to inventory, capacity, nodes, etc.. Allows the optimzer to give a reason for the split that allows the Business to identify other issues. Split due to distance, speed, inventory, capacity, etc..
over 3 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

REST API client service content type

The RESTAPIClient service accepts only 'Application/JSON and Application/XML as valid values for Content-type. For our integration with Okta, Okta expects the content-type as ' application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. While this works fine with postman...
almost 2 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 2 Not under consideration

Setting in the optimizer to value 1 node over others

As a user I would like a way to move allocation to one node over another. This can be a feature that we would use when we might want to have one node be used more or less during a given time
almost 4 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Show the Markdown indicator in Optimizer Sourcing Explainer

We are raising this to understand if we have any indicator for Markdown (Actual/Artificial Markdown) in Sourcing explainer due to that Optimizer selected that node. In REI, we are observing sometimes Optimizer giving the selected the node as store...
almost 4 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0

Support/document health endpoints in REST services

It would be useful to have actuator-like health endpoints in the product's REST and REST Authentication WAR services so that a gateway or load-balancer can gracefully work with the services. If these exist, just documenting them would be great.
about 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Future consideration

Add support for Global Data Services (GDS) & Application Continuity and Transaction Guard (ACTG)- Oracle 19c

We would like to take advantages of some features Oracle has to offer in the new space which will increase application uptime and availability during database patching. In our environment in order to support rolling patches and ensure application ...
over 4 years ago in Sterling B2B Integrator / Other 0 Not under consideration

Add Optimizer configuration to allow expedited orders to bypass backlog consideration

Add a configuration option to allow Order Optimizer to bypass backlog consideration / penalty for expedited orders (e.g. 1-day or 2-day service levels were purchased). This configuration option should allow for configuration choices between:1. cur...
over 7 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Order Optimizer support for additional air carrier capacity constraint

Add Order Optimizer support for an additional 'carrier capacity' constraint. This configurable network level constraint would stop using a specific carrier once a configured number of orders for that day has been assigned to that carrier. Order Op...
over 7 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration