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Inventory Visibility

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Required IV phase 2 inventory snapshot API equivalent to RTAM full sync.

Required IV phase 2 inventory snapshot API equivalent to RTAM full sync.
almost 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Functionality already exists

Node Configuration Attributes to specify Inventory Restrictions that impact available inventory for consumption

Note setup 1) Supported delivery methods, SLAs by delivery methods, calendars and capacities for nodes. 2) There should be a way to specify conditional values for node parameters. A few example use cases 1) For a Node, Delivery Method, SKU --> ...
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Get Availability by tag (inventory identifier)

IV does not currently provide availability by tag. It does support taking supplies/demands by tag. OMoC will generate the TagNumber and pass it to IV for supply/demand updates. IV will store them as OMoC had provided. However, you will not be able...
about 4 years ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Future consideration

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.
about 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.
about 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.
about 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 ...
about 5 years ago in Inventory Visibility 3 Future consideration