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Inventory Visibility

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Display fulfillment overrides information in Node Availability API output

If a node is disabled for a given delivery method the availability will show 0 but there's no context of why it's 0. Displaying fulfillment overrides information in output will allow callers of the API to distinguish between not having available i...
about 2 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Ability to schedule on hand inventory publish for a set of DG’s or nodes

Currently, the IV events for inventory publish only include available units (supply - demands - safety stock). We have a need to schedule (intra day changes and nightly sync) the publish of ON HAND units for SKU/location level to certain external ...
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Ability to schedule the publish of network level availability for a set of DG's

The trigger DgAvailabilityChange Event allow you to publish availability changes for all DG's within a tenant ID. This does not allow us to schedule the publish from within IV and also restrict the data publish to a subset of DG's. Within IV, we n...
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Not under consideration

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

Report inventory for multiple items in a table in BUC

We can currently search on multiple SKUs by separating the SKU with a comma. But the user still has to drill into each item separately once the search results come back. If the user has searched on a single node or singe DG, they should be able to...
over 4 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

Full inventory snapshot for all the items across all nodes

Required a rest API or evnent to publish Full inventory snapshot for all the items across all nodes in IV phase 2
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Functionality already exists

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