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Under the equipment tab, we would like to be able to open an individual equipment and see all material spares consumed/on a BoM for that equipment.

From the equipment tab, we would like to be able to click on a piece of equipment and immediately see all the materials that are linked to and/or have been consumed by that equipment and be able to navigate to those materials in the tool.
over 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

Node Availability API to support Node Transfer

Adding support for node transfer in IV will allow a retailer who does not have SIP whom is currently supporting click and collect just from store stock to easily transition to supporting DC to Store transfer as well as Store to Store transfer when...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Add a "reject" button in addition to approve and defer.

The current practice of our users, if they do not want to accept the tool's recommended parameters, is to make a note, select "approve" but leave the export button unchecked. It can be difficult to determine whether or not the tool's recommendatio...
over 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Enable partial line cancellation in Order Hub

Partial line cancellation currently works from Order Hub (only post turning ON 'Add Qty' modification rule for required order line and release statuses from DOM) – however it also enables line quantity addition feature which is not desired. There ...
over 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Option to default the optimization method to better service level of "Optimal" and "Fixed Service Level"

For our critical materials, it is imperative that we have stock availability. To ensure this, we use fixed service levels of 98% (for top tier equipment) and 95% for the remainder of material marked critical in SAP. HOWEVER, often times, the Optim...
over 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Remove Division from mandatory field when bulk editing from file

Division is currently a mandatory field when bulk editing from file, our company uses Plant and Material to identify a unique record, to a certain degree Store ( or SLOC in SAP). I suggest we do away with Division as a mandatory input if other cus...
over 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

I would like the ability to add a calculated field/column to the Items view, similar to what you can do with a pivot table.

With a company as large as ours, different groups are interested in different metrics. It would be nearly impossible to capture and manage all of these centrally as fields in the tool. The specific example I am looking at is someone who wants to m...
over 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 2 Future consideration

Include tag inventory details on order hub inventory search screen

Include tag inventory details on the order hub inventory search screen and include tag value while adjusting inventory from order hub Currently, the Order Hub inventory search screen does not display tag inventory. It only displays inventory avail...
over 1 year ago in Order Management (OnPrem & OMoC) 0 Future consideration

Addition of an logical Assignee column to Change Request

Adding an rule-based Assignee column to Change Requests would allow client supervisors or managers to “asssign” a CR prior to being picked up by a processor.
over 1 year ago in Maximo Inventory Optimization 1 Future consideration

Additional attributes in the reservation data.

During reservation create/update we want to pass additional attributes associated to reservation, persist it and publish them in the event message along with reservation details. These additional attributes are supporting information for the downs...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration