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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...
PINNED Present Multiple Host Keys - RSA and ECDSA
As with standard Linux servers today Secure Proxy should be able to present Host Keys (more than one) in both RSA and ECDSA formats depending on what type the vendor incoming connection supports. Vendors are demanding Host Keys that are stronger t...

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Store Replenishment based on reorder point for certain items

As inventory reaches to re-order point, based on setup at product / store / org level, store should automatically or manually (via store manager) trigger a Transfer Inventory Request from DC. This request can also go to an Inventory Planner who wo...
over 5 years ago in Store Engagement / Usability 0 Planned for future release

Transaction ID should be treated as unique by Sterling IV regardless of when it is posted. This will help to avoid duplicate transaction updates into the Platform.

Currently, Sterling IV has the ability to not reprocess a transaction with the same transaction id only for 15 mins. But at BigLots, we have business cases wherein the same transaction can be reposted after 15 days to one month. We have discussed ...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

OMS to IV item relationships

Currently no OOTB support to sync item relationships for items with variations between OMS and IV
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Provide a dashboard view to have detailed SIM UI up time statuses

Provide a dashboard view to have detailed SIM UI up time statuses
about 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 11 Planned for future release

IV actions should be allowed to enable at onboarded enterprise level

Currently, the IV inventory snapshot and supply/demand change actions work only when enabled at DEFAULT level.
about 6 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Please give me visibility to report on passed forecasted entries so I can track forecasting compliance

We get a list of forecasted demand from our AMT maintenance planning tool. We would like to compare the forecast with the actual use as the months roll over to allow us to report on forecasting compliance.
about 3 years ago in MRO Inventory Optimization 1 Planned for future release

GTIN based Inventory Availability and Scheduling in OMS CoC and Inventory Visibility

For our current client, inventory items are uniquely identified using UPCs(not to be confused with UPC in generic sense) and not SKUs, while the selling catalog identifies items using SKUs. These UPCs can change every year for the same item. For e...
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Provide a field on the Payment UI for return orders for user to enter the amount intended to refund against each tender.

Provide a field on the Payment UI for return orders for user to enter the amount intended to refund against each tender. We had requirement to add new payment method on return since it was requirement to refund to a new tender on return . Currentl...
almost 7 years ago in Call Center 0 Planned for future release

CDT Import and Export Ydk prefs save option in SST insted of manually copying

When we do CDT, we are pasting YDK prefs manually in SST, this may cause an issue due to human error. if we have an option to save this file in SST, will be helpful and human errors will be mitigated.
over 3 years ago in Self Service Tool 1 Planned for future release

Returns processing on over shipped catch weight quantities

When a refund is initiated on an overage product (Meat/Deli), IBM matches Refund quantity with ORDERED qty, NOT with SHIPPED quantity. This causes discrepancy during settlement, and needs to be manually adjusted.
over 4 years ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 1 Planned for future release