Tenant settings

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

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
Default shipping weight	lb
Unit of measure for distance	Miles
Unit of measure for Shipping dimension	Inches
Unit of measure for weight	lb

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

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

Also, you can only modify the Default shipping weight tenant settings, by using the UI or the Define settings API. To view the tenant settings that you can modify, you can use the Get settings API.

Setting preferences

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 you can reserve an item.; This attribute corresponds to the defaultExpirationMinutes parameter in the Update Settings API.

Enabling 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.; Also, 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: Allows the delivery method events to be published even if fulfillment is disabled.
Zero quantity filter: Ensures that records with zero quantity are ignored.