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Inventory Visibility

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Observability Dashboard for Synchronization Jobs Performance

Monitoring Dashboard of IV processes. Supply, Demand, Reservation Async Jobs Performance Dashboard with KPIs like Average Processing Time, Max on Daily/Weekly/Monthly Periods, and Adherence to SLAs.For example, avg time to complete Supply Sync cal...
7 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

More Flexibility in Segmenting Inventory

We have various types of customers shipping from our warehouses, and our partnershps vary. Some partners are assigned a fixed # of units of inventory, while others are assigned a share (%) of units in a specific warehouse. It is important for our ...
9 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0

Rules Based Safety Stock to consider Future Available date

The further into the future the available stock is, the less certain it is that it will arrive on time. We want to set safety stock rules based on the future availability date so that we don't expose more stock with less risk, and less stock with ...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

API to list of all items that have fulfilment disabled for node

IV API to get a list of all items that have fulfilment disabled for pick by node. This would be simpler than getting a list of all items and then passing each item into Get Item Fulfillment Options.
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Display fulfillment overrides information in Node Availability API output

If a node is disabled for a given delivery method the availability will show 0 but there's no context of why it's 0. Displaying fulfillment overrides information in output will allow callers of the API to distinguish between not having available i...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

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

Support in Inventory Visibility for tag controlled inventory

There are products that are unique to batch, lot, manufacture date, and other attributes that require tagged inventory control to identify a specific or subset of a product. For example, products like granite/stone slab countertops each have a uni...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

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

Support segmentation inventory from IV

Product to consume inventory from regular inventory when segmented inventory is not enough. This will support in reservation and sourcing to fulfill from regular inventory when segmented inventory is not present. Also partial reservation and alloc...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Monitoring Dashboard Exposed for Clients

When working with our IBM partners, there was a tool that the team used for monitoring system health. We have implemented Sterling Inventory Visibility for our website (9/27/22). However, there is trepidation in the team as we have no way to see h...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration