IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility

IBM® Sterling™ Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility processes inventory supply and demand activity to provide an accurate and real-time global visibility information across various selling channels. Retailers can use this information to optimize their business operations to enhance the customers’ shopping experiences and prevent inventory stockout and overselling.

Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility can seamlessly integrate with any existing commerce solution. It is suitable for retailers that need to add inventory insight to their legacy order management solution and for growing retailers who are not ready for a complete distributed order management solution.

The inventory that is used to promise orders to customers might not be available on hand. It can either be in transit or an order might be placed for which the retailers want to use a certain percentage of the future supply to fulfill the demand. Additionally, retailers must be able to know when their inventory levels fall under the specified thresholds so that they can place orders and plan for supply.

Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility is designed to address these issues. For the success of any commerce solution, real-time inventory visibility is the key. After a sale, if the time taken to update the inventory is high, the chances of overselling or stockout is also high. If the requirement for safety stock is high, the probability of markdowns in the future also increases. For instance, after an item is added to the cart, it might take a few minutes to check out. When checked out, it might take a few minutes before the captured order meets expectations and achieves omnichannel success.

Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility updates the inventory picture immediately, and provides accurate and real-time stock levels across all channels. It also provides the option to scale horizontally to handle increasing throughput requirements and unexpected spikes in demand.

Key benefits

Real-time inventory visibility provides numerous benefits, which include (but are not limited to):

A single, centralized, and accurate view of real-time inventory across various selling channels.
Reduced latency in inventory updates through soft reservations.
Reduced investment in caching solutions for e-commerce.

For more information, see IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility documentation.

You can integrate Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility with Sterling Order Management System based on your Sterling Order Management System platform. For more information, see Integrating with Sterling Intelligent Promising Inventory Visibility.