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OM Next gen + IV to support CARRY/DEL delivery methods

Existing OM supports multiple delivery methods, but next gen SaaS plus IIV only supports SHP for availability. A simple fix as an interim solution is send delivery method SHP to IIV so that it returns that availability back so that DEL/CARRY metho...
almost 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 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...
4 months 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...
4 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Ability/ Option to clean up data loaded into IV via a self-serve option/ API

Currently, IV APIs do not give the option to clean up the data loaded into it via the integration with OMoC. There are APIs to perform adjustments or to zero-out the supplies/ demands and hence availability in IV (and thereby the process to clean ...
almost 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 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
5 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

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 ...
10 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Planned for future release

Support for Distance Information in Get Node Availability (IV)

- Ability to obtain distance information from input longitude / latitude- Future support could consider plugins to external address locator systems for distance by road than just straight line
10 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 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, ...
10 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under 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...
5 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Out of the box purge agent for clearing entries in INV_INVENTORY_ITEM_LOCK table

As part of the Hot SKU implementation, Lululemon has enabled granular locking at the Item / Node / demand level by adding following properties in Customer overrides. This has improved the performance of the system by reducing database row lock co...
6 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration