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Inventory Visibility

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On a reallocation request, Inventory update in IV should be done synchronously, and should not be through messages posted to internal queues in an asynchronous way

On a reallocation request, Inventory update in IV should be done synchronously, and should not be through messages posted to internal queues in an asynchronous way. Below is the use case under consideration. The asynchronous update to IV (as menti...
about 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Kits functionality in OMS Inventory Visibility

We attended the demo session for OMS Inventory Visibility and felt the product is looking great. However the product is missing support for kits and components (bundles). This is one of the must needed feature for some of the retail clients...
almost 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Delivered

Safety stock enhancements

Enhancement request to support safety stock solution at the following levels, Date range support - Ability to configure safety stock based on applicate date range. This allows the users to configure these ahead of time and does not rely on just in...
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Move aggregation of Resource pool capacity consumption to asynchronous process to reduce locking

As of now manageCapacityReservation/reserveInventory/reserveAvailableInventory API calls are locking YFS_RES_POOL_CAPCTY_CONSMPTN when capacity is reserved against node/date/shift combination. This slows down reservations when pick capacity enabled.
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

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 ...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Publish SKU attributes as part of IV API's including ATP lookup and ATP publish events

In our ecosystem, we have systems that use alternate SKU identifiers (ex- UPCCode instead of SKU Id). Without the support for cross referencing SKU's between the various item aliases, additional lookup calls will be needed to get the Item id neede...
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Ability for a child item (keyboard) to belong to multiple parent items (Intel PC as well as AMD PC) at the same time

Ability for a child item (keyboard) to belong to multiple parent items (Inter PC as well as AMD PC) at the same time. It is common in the retail world that a product is bundled as combos in multiple permutation and combinations. It means allowing ...
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

IV event to publish availability only when item threshold is reached.

Currently IV publish event : ProductAvailabilityToSell.ShipNodeChange when the availability for an item at a ship node changes. Similarly IV event DgAvailabilityChange is published when the availability for an item in a DG changes. This results in...
almost 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

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
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Delivered

Lock Ship nodes at Delivery method level (Enhancement for IBM Sterling OMS v9.5)

This is very much needed for the retailers to maintain a granular Inventory visibility within store network and also to increase the business revenue by showing availability for a specific delivery mode instead of blocking the availability for the...
almost 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered