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OMS - Intelligent Promising

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Add Processing Cost configuration to track fixed fees

Add an additional configurable attribute for the Processing Cost model to track a fixed cost for the first item picked from a given node. This cost would be added to the existing variable processing cost (determined by item count) available today....
over 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Capability to consume and consider future demand forecasts and promotions

Add the capability for Order Optimizer to consume and consider future demand forecasts and promotions provided by the retailer. Enabling this added input would improve WOO's ability to predict stockout and markdown probability when a future change...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Order Optimizer to adjust future sourcing decisions based on actual shipping data

Order Optimizer to ingest shipping data of what actually happened and adjust future shipping/sourcing decisions based on the data. Discussion and prioritization of use cases is needed between Kohl's and IBM. Need to determine the best data sources...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Revise the current Direct Ship Vendor item handling in Order Optimizer

Revise the current Order Optimizer logic for Direct Ship Vendor (DSV) items. Currently DSV items are prioritized to a vendor for fulfillment even though other nodes may have the capability to fulfill that item. In the case of multi-item orders thi...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Not under consideration

Add Order Optimizer Dashboard tracking for actual shipping vs. expected shipping

Add Order Optimizer Dashboard reporting to track actual shipping vs. the Order Optimizer expected shipping. Create new metrics to track how close actual shipments (from the nodes) are to what Order Optimizer assigned.The metrics should be availabl...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Future consideration

Add Order Optimizer PDT notifications

Add the capability for users to subscribe to notifications from the Order Optimizer Parameter Deployment Tool (PDT). Allowing users to subscribe to notifications would enable them to stay in touch with PDT changes executed by other team members or...
over 6 years ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Not under consideration

SIP Promise: Introduce Jurisdiction and Exclusion while calculating promise

Jurisdiction and Exclusion - Based on the Product Attribute and Shipping Group for Address whether Fulfilment allowed or not should be considered with in SIP promise to provide EDD and shipment assignments. This is required to manage carrier const...
2 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

SIP Promising: Limit Sourcing to a node if node capacity exhausted by 'x' days

Retailer stores are open shop floor and it cannot accept unlimited picking across days - as of now for Standard/Nominated Home Delivery and C&C to other store considers today and tomorrow's capacity and C&C now and Local considers today, t...
2 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

SIP Promise : New Fulfilment Calendar API

Retailers expose dates and slots as calendar to customer for Nominated delivery/collection offerings as a part of Fulfilment options, there is no API available in SIP Promise to support this - this is equivalent of getPossibleSchedules API in OMS ...
2 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

Enhance Reservation to block capacity

Reservation API as of now reserves only Stock and it doesn’t reserve corresponding capacities. This needs to be enhanced to reserve Node Capacity for each item and DELIVERY/C&C Capacity for each release level as a part of reservation If Capaci...
2 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted