Integrating

IBM® Sterling Intelligent Promising allows organizations to build their systems by using multiple small, specialized components that can be easily interconnected. This approach offers flexibility, making swapping out or updating individual components easier without affecting the entire system.

Planning your Sterling Intelligent Promising integration

Before you integrate Sterling Intelligent Promising, you must plan your project thoroughly and engage your implementation partner or System Integrator for assistance with your implementation project.

You must ensure to complete the following steps:
  • Analyze your fulfillment network, which includes stores, distribution centers, and vendors, and plan how to group them.
  • Understand the impact to your existing systems when integrated with Sterling Intelligent Promising and its services of Inventory Visibility, Promising, and Optimization and common services.
  • Understand the integration methodology for Service integration and Data integration.
  • Test your integration on an environment that resembles the production environment as much as possible. Use the preproduction and production environments and ensure they are identically configured.
Note: When your inventory availability is managed externally, provide the availability to the Sterling IP system. You do not need to integrate supply, demand, and other functions and you can continue using your existing inventory master system. This enables availability calculations and integrates the required inventory. For information about availability APIs, see Define node inventory availability.
Depending on your business priority, you can choose to integrate with the following packages: Depending on your packages, you might need to perform the service and data integration as follows:
Table 1. Integrations required for the Sterling Intelligent Promising packages
Packages Promising service Inventory service Optimization service
Sterling Intelligent Promising Standard Service integration Service integration Service integration
Sterling Intelligent Promising Premium Service integration Service integration Service integration and Data integration
Note: For the Sterling Intelligent Promising Essentials, there are no entitlements except Promising service.