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Status Planned for future release
Workspace Intelligent Promising
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 15, 2025

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Publishing DG Availability Events for All Demand and Supply Changes

Business Requirement: Some of the external legacy applications are relying on network events to maintain current availability state.

Scenario: DG Node-Specific Demand Without Supply

The DG (distribution group) consists of multiple nodes. In a specific case, demand is being placed against a node that will never have any associated supply. As a result, the node’s availability will always remain zero, leading to a persistent shortage condition.

However, when evaluating availability at the overall DG or network level, we expect the system to account for this demand and trigger DG availability events accordingly. This ensures that downstream applications receive accurate ATS (Available to Sell) information.

Currently, while the API invocation correctly reflects the shortage demand, the corresponding DG availability events are not being published.

The same to be considered for un-assigned demands case as well, where a DG is enabled for considering unassigned demands for availability. Network availability event should be published when an un-assigned demand is created.

What is your industry? Retail
How will this idea be used?

When evaluating availability at the overall DG or network level, we expect the system to account for this demand and trigger DG availability events accordingly. This ensures that downstream applications receive accurate ATS (Available to Sell) information.
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    Sampson Wong
    Oct 29, 2025

    The system, by default, publishes DG availability events only when the availability is positive. If there are pending unassigned demands, the Order Management System must proactively reassign those demands to a valid node; otherwise, they will be treated as outstanding orders, impacting the overall availability value.

    A pending enhancement will introduce the option to include node shortages in DG availability calculations. Currently, nodes in shortage are excluded from DG availability. A user-configurable toggle will allow users to define whether node shortages should be factored into the network-level availability. For example, if a node is shut down, all of its outstanding shortages will reduce the network’s total DG availability.

    So the behavior today without the flag is working as expected.

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