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Inventory Visibility

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Need ability to use AlternateItemID in inventory APIs

We have a Global catalog where an Item is identified by UPC in US and EAN in Europe. (This is a common setup across companies)We have ItemID=UPC, and we have Item Alias for EAN.We can use AlternateItemID=EAN to create order and it works fine. But ...
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Not under consideration

Inventory Visibility Service | Event Publish | Reservation Event

We would need to use the node level reservation event message to create activity for RTAM to consider this reservation for publishing to all consumers of the inventory.
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Inventory Visibility Service | APIs | Supply & Demand List APIs

IBM Inventory Visibility Service does not provides an API to GET all supply or demand data for an item from IBM Inventory Visibility Service in a single call (or each type), instead what is available today is you need to call per Ship Node. In our...
over 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Functionality already exists

IBM Order Management on Cloud is able to provide out of box integration to fetch availability from IVaaS during the execution of any promising APIs or order transactions.

IBM Order Management on Cloud is able to provide out of box integration to fetch availability from IVaaS during the execution of any promising APIs or order transactions.
almost 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Functionality already exists

System is able to support providing control in the request of all availability APIs that ignores safety factor definition while calculating availability.

System is able to support providing control in the request of all availability APIs that ignores safety factor definition while calculating availability. We need this feature for Find In Store Functionality.
almost 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Functionality already exists

System is able to define availability change event and publish availability on every change to multiple external systems both at node level and network level.

System is able to define availability change event and publish availability on every change to multiple external systems both at node level and network level. We need this feature same as RTAM in Sterling where inventory can be published.
almost 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Functionality already exists

Ability/ Option to clean up data loaded into IV via a self-serve option/ API

Currently, IV APIs do not give the option to clean up the data loaded into it via the integration with OMoC. There are APIs to perform adjustments or to zero-out the supplies/ demands and hence availability in IV (and thereby the process to clean ...
almost 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Future consideration

Ability/ API to provide inventory availability considering the OPEN_ORDER/ BACKORDER in the response of IV service

The Get Network Availability API exposed in Inventory Visibility mandate Distribution Group to be passed in the input. The API does not consider OPEN_ORDER/ BACKORDER demand types while computing the availability in IV. This leads to inconsistenci...
almost 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 7 Future consideration

IV Full Sync: Ability to import inventory availability into OMS in batch mode and reset any items to o if there is no open relevant demands in OMS

The loadInvnetoryMismatch API is used to bulk load inventory (supply qty for each SKU/location combination) into OMS and this API has a feature (CompleteInventoryFlag) where the API can reset inv to 0 for any items that are not passed in the input...
almost 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Planned for future release

IV actions should be allowed to enable at onboarded enterprise level

Currently, the IV inventory snapshot and supply/demand change actions work only when enabled at DEFAULT level.
about 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release