Tenant settings

Tenant settings, such as tenant ID, country, currency, time zone, unit of measure for weight, length, and distance are applied to your account during the account-provisioning process. You can set preferences for inventory availability lookup and the maximum number of days that an item is promised or fulfilled for orders. You can apply an expiration time to reservations to help ensure that inventory is not reserved for long periods unnecessarily. You can activate the settings to enable inventory segmentation allocation and rebalancing frequency.

Default tenant settings

During the onboarding process, the following tenant configurations settings are defined and configured for your account.

Setting name Default value
Country US
Currency USD
Time zone America or New York
Unit of measure for weight Pounds
Unit of measure for length Inches
Unit of measure for distance Miles
Unit of measure for Shipping dimension Inches
Unit of measure for weight Pounds
Default shipping weight lbs
Maximum delay days to consider Days

For more information about defining tenant settings, see Manage tenant settings.

To set values for these settings during your onboarding process, see IBM Support. To view the tenant settings that are configured for your account, see the Get encodings API.

Modifying tenant settings

You can modify the tenant settings by using either the UI or the APIs. To view the tenant settings that you can modify, see the Get settings API.

You can modify the Default shipping weight tenant settings by using either the UI or the Define settings API.

Setting preferences

You can set the following preferences by using APIs.

Inventory availability lookup window
Sets the time limit in days for accepting shipments.
This attribute corresponds to the defaultLimitInDays parameter in the Update Settings API.
Maximum shipping commitment days
Sets the maximum days that the inventory is available.
This attribute corresponds to the MaxFutureAvailabilityLookahead parameter in the Define settings and Get settings APIs.
Inventory reservation expiration time
Sets the length of time that you can reserve an item.
This attribute corresponds to the defaultExpirationMinutes parameter in the Update Settings API.
Network shortage aggregation preference
By default, the network aggregates only positive availability across nodes to maximize the available-to-promise (ATP) view.
When network shortage aggregation is enabled, the system incorporates shortages that is negative availability across nodes. This results in a net availability position. This approach reduces oversell risk by reflecting true network inventory.
For example, if Woodbury-NY has -5 units and Colonie has 8 units, following is the network availability with and without shortage aggregation:
  • With shortage aggregation enabled - Network availability = 3 units
  • Without shortage aggregation enabled - Network availability = 8 units
You can set the considerShortageAcrossNodes attribute to true in the Update settings API.
Note: By default, the shortage aggregation is applicable for all the newer capabilities like tag-based availability, unsegmented consumption, and unplanned inventory. You must enable this setting to improve the inventory accuracy, especially when distribution group constructs are used within the fulfillment network.

Enabling features

In IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising, you can use either the UI or the APIs to enable different features.
Segment rebalancing
Enables segment allocation and sets the allocation frequency to a minimum of 6 hours.
To enable allocation, toggle the slider to On.
Alternatively, you can set the allocationEnabled attribute to true in the Update settings API. For more information, see Enabling inventory segmentation allocation and rebalancing frequency.
Delivery method always published
Publishes the delivery method events even if fulfillment is disabled.
Unplanned inventory rules
Considers the unplanned inventory rule.
Tag settings
Enables the tag-based inventory availability and event publishing behavior for tagged and untagged items.
To activate the feature, toggle the Use tag controlled availability button.
Enable tagged inventory for untagged inventory controls whether untag availability is returned as the aggregation of tagged and untagged availability in search.
Select whether to publish events for All tags or Untagged only.
Network availability - Aggregate shortage across network
Determines how demand shortage is calculated for network-level inventory availability when searching by distribution group - either aggregated across all nodes when enabled or calculated per node by default.
Zero quantity filter
Ensures that records with zero quantity are ignored.
EDD cache
Enables the caching of EDD calculations for use in the Product List Page (PLP). For more information, see Estimated Delivery Dates.