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My ideas: Inventory Visibility

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Fulfillment Overrides at Segment Level

Currently fulfillment overrides only allows you to enable / disable at delivery method level. Ability to enable / disable at delivery method + segment / segment type level would allow ability to enable / disable for different channels (e.g. own si...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Node level safety stock values considered when calculating Network level SS

This feature would allow retailers who already define safety stock at node level to more easily leverage the new IBM safety stock rules because the values they set at node level can automatically be considered to create a network level value
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Order Hub: Streamline Inventory Adjustments across Segments

In prior R2 release, we only had RTL and RTL Store Segments. As such inventory adjustments to a Store Segment occurred as follows: Run an inventory search for a specific Retail Store Segment (RTL-XXX). The inventory adjust logic automatically decr...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Add flag to ManageItem to trigger UpdateItemRelationship in IV

When child items are created by manageItem, it would be really useful to be able to automatically trigger UpdateItemRelationship in IV via a flag so that the child item is associated with the model item in IV - so that the IV Availability Product ...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Planned for future release

Get Network Availability - Array of Distribution Groups (IV)

- Ability to pass array of distribution groups in Get Network Availability similar to array of ship nodes in Get Node Availability- This can be used in multiple use cases:- Enquiry for cart against multiple delivery methods (standard delivery DG, ...
almost 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration

Metrics in IV to understand the exposure rates

Ability to have insights into how much Inventory we are exposing for Demand and the reasons behind blocking by Dirty Node Vs Safety Stock vs Demand…etc., This information is critical for business and operations team. The below metrics are needed t...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

IV doesn't allow syncing negative inventory postion like GIV does.

When an Absolute sync is done for Item-Node combination with -ve value IV ignores it. Where as we have this functionality in GIV
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Future consideration

IV doesn't provide ability to differentiate various shipnodes by ship node type. As a result events published from IV cannot be filtered and/or distributed over separate channels within the external consumer by ship node type.

Currently in Ship Node configuration only Delivery method configuration is there need additional ability to differentiate DC vs Store so we can define various rules based on Ship Node type
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Inventory segmentation support for sourcing using IBM IV services and OMS

Customer has DCs in US and EMEA while they maintain inventory within each DC with different buckets including bulk inventory and common ATP. Common ATP is shared with the wholesale orders. Sourcing requirement is to use the bulk inventory of a DC,...
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Ability to disable item and node combination for specific DGs

We need an ability to disable item and node combination for some specific DGs in IV whereas for other DGs this Item and Node Combination should be enabled. Currently IV does not seem to support this feature.
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration