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Inventory Visibility

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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
about 2 years 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...
about 2 years 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...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1

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...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Publish In-Stock and Out-of-stock events only to COS Bucket

Currently, we cannot publish only the events to a cos bucket when the On hand inventory of an SKU becomes out of stock or comes back in stock. Instead, we are forced to use threshold values to control the publish, which is not very efficient. Ther...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Can we subscribe to the 'IV events' for different enterprises?

Events published based on separate inventory orgs, reduces the loads on the receivers, and it will increase the throughput.We are eagerly waiting for this enhancement from IBM, request you to please expedite this feature as soon as possible.
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Need api to fetch total reservations made against the item (Aggregated Reservation Details)

At this moment there is no API which can provide total reserved quantities against an Item . This API is required to understand the aggregated reservations details for an Item , against all shipnodes . IF the shipnode is paased then the total quan...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1

Order Hub: Streamline Inventory Adjustments across Segments

In prior R2 release, we only had RTL and RTL Store Segments. As such inventory adjustments to a Store Segment occurred as follows: Run an inventory search for a specific Retail Store Segment (RTL-XXX). The inventory adjust logic automatically decr...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Transaction ID should be treated as unique by Sterling IV regardless of when it is posted. This will help to avoid duplicate transaction updates into the Platform.

Currently, Sterling IV has the ability to not reprocess a transaction with the same transaction id only for 15 mins. But at BigLots, we have business cases wherein the same transaction can be reposted after 15 days to one month. We have discussed ...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Modify existing reservation

A network level reservation has been made against a Distribution Group. The consumer proceeds through the checkout journey and now that reservation needs to be modified and made at the node level (eg consumer has now chosen to pick up in store). W...
over 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration