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Inventory Visibility

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APIs should publish events that can be consumed and actions can be taken upon

IV APIs should publish events e.g. On successful creation of reservation or on partial reservation so that an action can be taken upon that event.
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

APIs should be idempotent

In distributed application architecture, if the APIs are not idempotent duplicate data issues can occur. e.g. duplicate requests for Reservation blocks inventory for other customers.
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Provide Audit capability for IV events generated

Provide Audit capability for IV events generated. Currently, the audit is enabled for supply and demand updates to IV but there is not capability for client to know if an event is generated to webhook or COS. We see there are many instances where ...
over 1 year ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

IV Supply Sync Visibility

Need an acknowledgement process for Supply Sync in IV that will summarize saying they received “x” number of updates, processed “x” number, and the supply for “x” number of items did not change. IBM informed this requirement is on the product road...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Make sourceTs and updatedTs fields visible in Get Supply and Get Demand API Responses

As an integration consultant, I need to be able to see when the supply and demand for an item was last updated so I can confirm whether or not information is flowing from external systems to IV. The sourceTs and updatedTs will help when performanc...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Need Threshold based ATP publish for DG Availability changes.

DG Availability was triggered every time when a store reaches capacity and IBM COS buckets are filled with more objects, causing backlog in consumption. Many stores were hitting capacity during the day and, every time this happened, IV triggered u...
about 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Delivered

Configurable framework in IV to determine distribution group(s) to be used for inventory lookup functions

Currently, the IV API's expect the requesting application to pass the DG to be used for inventory lookup. In our setup, the determination of DG is configured based on OMS sourcing rules and we have numerous parameters (SKU attributes, shipping sta...
over 3 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Delivered

Inventory Push Functionality in IV

As part of inventory publish function, we need to get DG level inventory, Network level inventory, availability indicator(High, Medium and Low), absolute inventory value and safety factor. We also need to understand high-level implementation stra...
almost 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Delivered

Breakup of future quantity by date in Available Inventory

The Availability API gives onhand and future in addition to the total quantity. The future should be broken by date e.g. x units on date1, y units on date 2.
over 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Delivered