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Inventory Visibility

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Database for IV

Need a read only database to connect to that shows all supply and demand records, quantities, ship nodes, sourceTs, segment info, etc. from IV. This will help with data cleanup and visibility. We have no way of knowing about stale data unless we q...
26 days ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Submitted

Solution to Prevent Inventory Availability going negative

Currently when an inventory is added through cycle count or removed through Transfer Order we have a default segment as WALK_IN for IV system. But in some cases it is leading to negative inventory in WALK_IN segment when there is inventory only in...
2 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Future consideration

Enhance IV bundles to support the idea of key skus

If I have a bundle 789 consisting of components: SKU 123 (key sku) SKU 234 (key sku)a SKU 345 (non key sku) SKU 456 (non key sku) While inquiring availability for bundle 789, I would like IV to only check the bundle components where getNodeAvailab...
3 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Nodes attributes to be part of node availability calls and also in the node availability event publishing 

With IV V2 api , the ship node now can have many attributes . But these attributes are not sent as part of the availability call for the same node , neither in events. To start with even the basic attributes like Country and Node Type will really ...
8 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Reservation auto expiry to generate reservation events

Today if the reservation expired due to the set time , there is no availability event getting triggered for the same. Due to this, there is no visibility of actual availability being published .
8 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

Need an ability to bulk extract the IV configuration (Item + Node Fulfillments Status)

We use this interface for masking capability . We have many item+ Ship node combinations which we disable . We need this extract for reconciliation purpose , to validate whether the item fulfillment has been disabled for all those combinations , s...
9 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0

Node Availability API to support Node Transfer

Adding support for node transfer in IV will allow a retailer who does not have SIP whom is currently supporting click and collect just from store stock to easily transition to supporting DC to Store transfer as well as Store to Store transfer when...
10 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Future consideration

Condition by node type in safety stock network rules

In a distribution group you can have store nodes or distribution center nodes and sometimes we only need to apply the safety stock to store nodes.
10 months ago in Inventory Visibility 0 Planned for future release

IV availability nodes should have safety stock along with on hand quantity

Reference for IBM ticket PMR TS015117738 Big Lots wanted to know safety stock in same API call and not to make additional API call to know the safety stock. If IBM can add safety stock also along with on hand quantity to following API:- https://ap...
11 months ago in Inventory Visibility 1 Functionality already exists

Add Reservation demand to the Demand Publish Event.

During reservation create/Update/Delete, demand publish should publish the reservation demand data to the topic. This will help business to make decisions to control the sale real-time during Checkouts and cancels.
11 months ago in Inventory Visibility 2 Planned for future release