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Enhance Reservation to block capacity

Reservation API as of now reserves only Stock and it doesn’t reserve corresponding capacities. This needs to be enhanced to reserve Node Capacity for each item and DELIVERY/C&C Capacity for each release level as a part of reservation If Capaci...
4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

SIP Promise to consider last mile delivery capacity or instore collection capacity while calculating item delivery or pickup date in EDD and Shipment Assignment calculations

Retailer would like SIP to hold Transport (Last mile carrier delivery capacity) and Task (C&C Collection Capacity) with in SIP Capacity service which is fed by CMS/CAGS/Carrier and LMS and make use of the same in EDD/createShipmentAssignment c...
4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Promising APIs to consider Item Attributes or Delivery Option to define capacityCategoriesToConsider

Use case: Retailer would like to have a ring fenced capacity for Standard Home Delivery, Express Home Delivery, Same Day Store Collection, Next Day Store Collection for items that belongs to particular department or falls under sale, this will all...
4 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

Enhance Safety Stock Rules with Relational Operators (Eg: '>', '<') for extended attributes

Problem: Currently, in case of extended attributes, safety stock rules only permit the use of the equality operator (=) for setting rule conditions. This limitation restricts the flexibility and granularity of safety stock management, particularly...
7 months ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Adding custom attributes/object to demand entity

While capturing the demand in SIP, we want to collect, persist, and publish additional information associated with the Demand. This will help the demand data to be more informative to downstream systems.
over 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Future consideration

Configuration to control Sell and Fulfill capability at node level

Can a product feature be provided as: 1. Ability to turn ON/OFF a node for availability or fulfilment or both. 2. Ability to associate a duration on the action to turn OFF.
over 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 1 Functionality already exists

Oversell as product feature

Business if expecting following capability : 1. Ability to sell beyond available quantity. 2. Ability to define quantity to be sold beyond available Qty, as a percentage or unit in the catalog hierarchy 3. Ability to configure, calculation of over...
over 1 year ago in Intelligent Promising 1

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...
almost 3 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

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..
almost 3 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

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
over 3 years ago in Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release