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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

Ability to set EventThreshold at Node and DeliveryMethod level

Why is it useful? It provides ability to just publish only SHP or PICK Inventory Events (either Node or Dg level). Because in many of the IV implementations, where there is no separate Availability for SHP and PICK. In such cases, currently, the r...
13 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Submitted

Allow different Node Balancing Cost (NBC) parameters by Service Level Agreement (SLA)

The SLA configuration we have loaded has values of Standard, 1Day, and 2Day. Is it possible to have different node balancing configuration values (Tiebreaker cost, Backlog Threshold, Overcapacity Penalty) for each node that vary by SLA? For exampl...
21 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

The max carrier service capacity should be considered by SIP Optimizer when selecting a carrier service

During holidays, ULTA have carrier services that impose caps on the number of packages. For example, they only want to ship 1000 packages using Fedex Ground for that day. Any more packages cannot be shipped by Fedex Ground on that day. So SIP Opti...
27 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Planned for future release

include attachment with error info in email indicating ingestion failure

Creating this cause as directed in case TS017610463 Configuration file data is loaded into SIP-Optimizer via the file transfer adapter https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/intelligent-promising?topic=id-downloading-installing-configuring-sterling-intellige...
28 days ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 1 Planned for future release

SIP: Reservation api for a distribution group to consider shortage quantity for nodes associated to a DG

Reservation API against a distribution group, should consider shortage quantities of nodes within DG and restrict reserved quantities to consider shortage. When a reservation api is invoked for an item and utilizing the entire network (distributio...
2 months ago in OMS - Intelligent Promising 0 Under review