Archived what's new in Order Hub in previous years

Important new features and enhancements were introduced in Order Hub in previous years.

4 October 2024

Search for the supply and demand changes in IBM® Sterling™ Intelligent Promising: You can now search the supply and demand changes for the items in specific ship nodes from the Order Hub UI. For more information, see Searching Supply and demand.
Create and search inventory reservations in Sterling Intelligent Promising: As a fulfillment manager, you can now create inventory reservations from the Order Hub UI. For more information, see Creating a new reservation.; You can also search the inventory reservations from the UI by using the Item ID, Reference, or Reservation ID. For more information, see Searching the inventory reservations.
Define shipping notification time in Sterling Intelligent Promising: As a fulfillment manager, you can define the minimum shipping notification time by using the Order Hub UI. The Shipping notifications tab is introduced under node configurations. You can now set the minimum time for a delivery or a pickup to be initiated. For more information about how to define the shipping notification time, see Managing shipping notification time.
Improved ability to monitor node performance in Sterling Intelligent Promising: A new optimization objective node performance is introduced for Sterling Intelligent Promising Premium users. As a fulfillment manager, you can now monitor the node performance with the help of the Node performance feature. You can use AI-powered models to predict node cancellation rates and node reschedule rates, which can help you to optimize order fulfillment. For more information, see Node performance. A new optimization objective called Risk reduction cost was added to the optimization profile. To enable the node performance feature, you must assign weight to the Risk reduction cost optimization objective while you create or edit an optimization profile. For more information, see Managing optimization profiles.
Ability to return nonreturnable items: Authorized approvers can now override return policies and create returns for nonreturnable items. For more information, see Creating order returns.
Improve inventory searches by requiring mandatory criteria: You can improve your inventory search results by requiring users to input mandatory criteria such as Item ID. For more information, see Configuring settings.
The Inventory page can retain its previous look: The inventory search uses a new data model. You can retain the previous look of your inventory page by overriding the default setting. For more information, see Inventory in Configuring settings.
Fixes and resolved issues: This release contains fixes and resolved issues that were found to help make sure that Order Hub functions properly. For more information, see Order Hub resolved issues.

6 September 2024

Configure carrier services for physical or dimensional weight with IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising: You can configure the career services to input the physical weight or dimensional weight of the package. For more information, see Configuring carrier services.
Fixes and resolved issues: This release contains fixes and resolved issues that were found to help make sure that Order Hub functions properly. For more information, see Order Hub release notes.

2 August 2024

Filtering orders by status

You can review the order optimization decisions that are made by the Optimization service, specifically for prepurchase order scenario or calls made for Calculate checkout assignments using costs API.

You can create an optimization profile with order status conditions. For more information, see Managing optimization profiles.

You can filter the orders by order status from the Optimization dashboard and Optimization explainer. For more information, see the Viewing the optimization dashboard and Order list page of Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility documentation.

Customize the login page: You can customize the branding that appears on the Order Hub login page to reflect the specific brand name and logo of your organization. For more information, see Customizing the login page.

5 July 2024

Fixes and resolved issues: This release contains fixes and resolved issues that were found to help make sure that Order Hub functions properly. For more information, see Order Hub release notes.

7 June 2024

Add new routes to existing applications in Order Hub: You can customize applications by adding new routes to the applications. You use the schematics command to create the packages for each route and update the files within the application. For more information, see Adding new routes to existing applications.

3 May 2024

Set added default settings for inventory considerations by using Order Hub: In IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising, you can set default settings for inventory considerations. You configure inventory availability and reservation expiration time by using the Order Hub user interface. For more information, see Default tenant settings.

Configure added node properties by using Order Hub: You can configure several new node properties for Sterling Intelligent Promising by using the Order Hub user interface. For more information, see Configuring nodes.

Use HTTP to run Order Hub customizations: You can configure the system so that Order Hub uses HTTP to call IBM Sterling Order Management System Software APIs. For more information, see Running Order Hub customizations by using HTTP.

5 April 2024

IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising fulfillment rules support destination-based conditions: You can restrict your fulfillment rules by applying carrier service restrictions and destination-based conditions, such as Country, State, and City. For more information, see Fulfillment rules.

Define, search, and view carrier services by using carrier transit details: You can specify the carrier transit details that you want to consider for a carrier service for an order. You can also search and view carrier transit zones and rates based on various criteria, such as origin, destination, node type, and weight range. For more information, see Defining carrier transit details and Viewing transit carrier details.

Filter by order status in the Optimization explainer: In the Optimization explainer, the Order list page includes an order status filter. You can filter the orders by Standard or Cart/draft order status. For more information, see Order list page.

1 March 2024

User management enhancements: On-premises Order Hub administrators can now create, search, and manage Sterling Order Management System Software users. For more information, see Adding users to Order Hub.

Optimization setting enhancements: Fulfillment managers can now see optimization considerations on the Tenant configurations page in the Order Hub user interface. For more information, see Default tenant settings.

19 January 2024

Order Hub now has on-premises support forIBM Sterling Intelligent Promising: Order Hub on-premises customers can now access IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising features. For more information, see Sterling Intelligent Promising Overview. To configure IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising integration, see Configuring a connection to Sterling Inventory Visibility.

The Order Hub framework is now on Angular v15: Angular v13 is at an end of life status, so the Order Hub framework is now on Angular v15.

New Shipment metrics enhancements: Fulfillment managers can now use two new tabs on the Shipment metrics pages to view the shipment status and release status durations. The Shipment status duration tab provides a view of the number of hours that the shipment has been in the specific status, for example, in the Ready for backroom pickup status. The Release status duration tab provides a view of the number of hours that the order release is in the specific status. For more information, see Node metrics page.

View and modify default tenant settings forIBM Sterling Intelligent Promising: Administrators can now view and modify default tenant settings for IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising. For more information, see Default tenant settings.

Create rules with item attribute conditions: Fulfillment managers can now create rules with item attribute conditions. Item attributes are added as a new condition type when you are creating rules.

5 October 2023

Fixes and resolved issues: This release contains fixes and resolves issues to help ensure that Order Hub functions properly. For more information, see Order Hub Release notes.

1 September 2023

Federated login for Order Hub on-premises deployments: You can set up federated login for Order Hub on-premises deployments for the developer toolkit, for traditional, or for container installations. For more information, see Setting up federated login for Order Hub.

4 August 2023

Large order support: Order Hub can now load large B2B orders to help you more efficiently manage order lines. For more information, see Order details tab and Configuring settings.

Shipment and shipment age metrics: You can now view shipment and shipment age metrics from the Node metrics page. Three tabs on the Node metrics page display performance, shipment, and shipment age metrics. For more information, see Node metrics page.

HTTP support for on-premises deployments: Order Hub now supports HTTP in on-premises deployments. For more information, see Setting up Order Hub

17 July 2023

Change capacity conversion factor: When the capacity unit of measure is set to RELEASE in the Sterling Order Management System Software, you can change the capacity conversion factor for a node or node type. For more information, see Changing the capacity conversion factor .

Create transfer rules: You can create transfer rules to set up automatic node-to-node transfers. For more information, see Creating a transfer rule in Order Hub.

More audit properties for Sterling Inventory Visibility: The following audit properties are available for Sterling Inventory Visibility: Change made on, Adjustment reason code, Supply accepted time, and Estimated time of arrival. For more information, see Viewing inventory audit details.

Fulfillment options for Sterling Intelligent Promising: You can set fulfillment options at the node in Sterling Intelligent Promising to determine whether the node supports shipping or pickup options. For more information, see Set fulfillment options at the node.

2 June 2023

Include custom attributes in supply audits: In Configuration > Custom attributes, set the purpose of custom attributes to Supply. Then, you can include them in supply audits. For more information, see Searching audit inventory.

Order Hub availability: Order Hub will be available on the IBM Sterling Order Management System Software SaaS legacy platform as version 23.2 rolls out.

5 May 2023

Resource permission for user roles: Tenant managers can access only the User roles page by ensuring that they are part of a custom resource group with permission for Settings > List Views > User roles. For more information, see Defining resource permissions for Order Hub.

Fulfillment options for item and node combinations in IBM Sterling Global Inventory Visibility: Fulfillment managers can enable or disable fulfillment options for item and node combinations in IBM Sterling Global Inventory Visibility. For more information, see Setting fulfillment options.

On-premises login authorization changes for Order Hub in Sterling Order Management System Software: The Sterling Order Management System Software login API is called when logging in to Order Hub in Sterling Order Management System Software. The default behavior of the login call is changed to include the Authorization request header. This change allows the login to support a Sterling Order Management System Software environment that is configured with BASIC auth. However, including the Authorization request header does not work with the Oracle WebLogic Server. To disable including the Authorization request header, set OH_LOGIN_AUTH_HEADER=N in the oh-setup.properties file. For more information, see Setting up Order Hub.

6 April 2023

Fixes and resolved issues: This release contains fixes and resolves issues to ensure that Order Hub functions properly. For more information, see the Order Hub release notes.

20 January 2023

Applying holds to order lines: Holds can be applied to entire orders or now to individual order lines. For more information, see Applying order holds and cancellations.

Managing distribution groups: Create and manage distribution groups from within Order Hub. For more information, see Managing distribution groups.

Defining editable columns in existing tables: Update the buc-table-config.json file to define editable table columns with their configurations and options. For more information, see Adding columns and tables to existing columns.