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Created on Feb 7, 2025

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Inventory Full Picture Change Event (Supply, Demand and Availability in one event)

Each time a Supply Change (SC) or Demand Change (DC)Event is generated a Product Availability (PA) event message is generated. We need to update an external system with this data. Rather than processing 3 types of messages (SC, DC, PA) it would be more efficient to process one message that has the Supply, Demand, and Product Availability picture in one.


Would like 2 types of events:

(1) an "Inventory Change" event that is triggered anytime Supply or Demand Changes

(2) an "Inventory Snapshot" that we can trigger on demand with the same data.


What is your industry? Consumer Products
How will this idea be used?

Our website and sales entry systems need to have the most up to date inventory picture from IV. We update a database with the item, ship node, demand, supply, and availability and then website and sales entry system calls the database to get these details. Therefore our database needs to be up to date.


Right now we have to process 3 types of events to get this data (SC, DC, PA) it would be more efficient to get 1 event with all the data we need.


We currently have issues with timeouts or failed messages. This will reduce those discrepencies if we have 1 event to process rather than 3.
  • Admin
    Sampson Wong
    Reply
    |     Feb 22, 2025

    The payload above is for the legacy availability events. Please check the v2 availability events


    Here is the link
    https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/intelligent-promising?topic=formats-new-event#newevent__ProdAvailability

    "currentAvailability": {

    "demandQuantity": 0,

    "supplyQuantity": 30,

    "toTs": "2021-04-01T00:00:00.000Z",

    "availableQuantity": 30,

    "consumedSafetyQuantity": 0,

    "fulfillmentAllowed": true,

    "reservedQuantity": 0,

    "shortageQuantity": 0,

    "thresholdLevel": 0,

    "demandShortage": 0,

    "reservationShortage":0,

    "safetyShortage":0

    },

    "futureAvailability": [

    {

    "demandQuantity": 0,

    "supplyQuantity": 40,

    "fromTs": "2021-04-01T00:00:00.000Z",

    "toTs": "2500-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",

    "availableQuantity": 40,

    "consumedSafetyQuantity": 0,

    "fulfillmentAllowed": true,

    "reservedQuantity": 0,

    "shortageQuantity": 0,

    "demandShortage": 0,

    "reservationShortage":0,

    "safetyShortage":0

    }

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Feb 10, 2025

    Hi Sampson,

    I do not see the Supply or Demand quantities in the payload for Product Availability. I only see shortage quantity out of the ones you mentioned.. Here is the format documented:

    {

    "code":"productAvailability",

    "timestamp":"2020-01-03T15:48:01Z",

    "attributes":[

    { "name":"tenantId", "value":"tenant1", "type":"String"},

    { "name":"productID", "value":"SKU1024", "type":"String"},

    { "name":"unitOfMeasure", "value":"EACH", "type":"String"},

    { "name":"productClass", "value":"NEW", "type":"String"},

    { "name":"deliveryMethod", "value":"SHP", "type":"String"},

    { "name":"segment", "value":"WALK_IN", "type":"String"},

    { "name":"segmentType", "value":"CHANNEL", "type":"String"},

    { "name":"shipNode", "value":"Matrix-Store-001", "type":"String"},

    { "name":"computeTs", "value":"2020-01-03T15:47:44Z", "type":"dateTime"},

    { "name":"alertType", "value":"REALTIME_ONHAND", "type":"String"},

    { "name":"alertLevel", "value":"1", "type":"Number"},

    { "name":"totalAvailableQuantity", "value":"0", "type":"Number"},

    { "name":"onhandAvailableQuantity", "value":"0", "type":"Number"},

    { "name":"earliestOnhandAvailableDate", "value":"2020-01-02T00:00:00.000Z", "type":"dateTime"},

    { "name":"latestOnhandAvailableDate", "value":"2020-01-02T00:00:00.000Z", "type":"dateTime"},

    { "name":"earliestFutureAvailableDate", "value":"2021-01-01T00:00:00.000Z", "type":"dateTime"},

    { "name":"latestFutureAvailableDate", "value":"2021-01-01T00:00:00.000Z", "type":"dateTime"},

    { "name":"futureAvailableQuantity", "value":"20", "type":"Number"},

    { "name":"totalReservedQuantityWithheld", "value":"10.0", "type":"Number"},

    { "name":"firstReservedExpiryTs", "value":"2020-01-08T08:10:00Z", "type":"dateTime"},

    { "name":"lastReservedExpiryTs", "value":"2020-01-08T20:45:00Z", "type":"dateTime"},

    { "name":"onhandSafetyQuantityWithheld", "value":"5", "type":"Number"},

    { "name":"futureSafetyQuantityWithheld", "value":"10", "type":"Number"},

    { "name":"totalSafetyQuantityWithheld", "value":"15", "type":"Number"},

    { "name":"totalShortageQuantity", "value":"0", "type":"Number"}

    ]

    }


    Where can I find the ALLOCATED demand qty, ONHAND Supply Qty, etc within this message?


    Thanks!

  • Admin
    Sampson Wong
    Reply
    |     Feb 8, 2025

    In the productAvailability, please find the demand/supply/shortage quantities in the payload. These new attribute were added in 2024.


    ProdAvailability event is triggered automatically when supply/demand has changed.

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