Archived what's changed on Cloud

Review the list of changes that were made to the previous Sterling Intelligent Promising application. Review and apply the changes to your application.

October 2022

Promising - Define Promising rules based on extended business attributes for promising calculations: The promising calculations APIs, both version 1 and version 2 now consider extended business attributes while evaluating sourcing decisions to more accurately meet business operations. Fore more information, see Calculate pre-purchase shipment assignment APIs both version 1 and version 2. Also, see Custom attributes.

Promising - Consider distribution groups in Promising rules while making promising calculations: The Promising rules are now enhanced to also apply node restrictions based on distribution groups. While performing promising calculations, the Promising rules now evaluate nodes based on distribution groups to determine the most optimum order fulfillment options. For more information, see Distribution groups.

Promising - The Calculate pre-purchase shipment assignments APIs now support the pick delivery method: The Calculate pre-purchase shipment assignments APIs now support the pick delivery method in addition to the already existing ship delivery method. For more information about version 1 API, see Scenario: Calculate pre-purchase shipment assignments using infinite capacity windows. For more information about version 2API, see Scenario: Calculate pre-purchase pick-up and shipment assignments using finite capacity windows.

September 2022

Promising - Removed basic node APIs

Previously, as part of the maintenance releases for the product, the basic node APIs (also referred to as the V1 node/basic APIs) were deprecated. Now, the underlying code classes and methods for the following APIs are no longer available:

Deprecated define node:
PATCH https://api.watsoncommerce.ibm.com/promising/%7BtenantId%7D/v1/config/nodes/%7BnodeId%7D/basic
Deprecated delete node:
DELETE https://api.watsoncommerce.ibm.com/promising/%7BtenantId%7D/v1/config/nodes/%7BnodeId%7D/basic
Deprecated get node:
GET https://api.watsoncommerce.ibm.com/promising/%7BtenantId%7D/v1/config/nodes/%7BnodeId%7D/basic
Deprecated list nodes:
GET https://api.watsoncommerce.ibm.com/promising/%7BtenantId%7D/v1/config/nodes?fulfillmentNodeType=%7BfulfillmentNodeType%7D&rateNodeType=%7BrateNodeType%7D

As the alternative, use the following APIs to update, retrieve, or delete node information:

Promising - Manage processing time: Previously, you were expected to manage processing time by using the Define node processing time API. Now you can manage processing times by using the Define node API.

Promising - The Calculate item delivery date API is enhanced to account for the pickup delivery method: The Calculate item delivery date API is enhanced to differentiate between the processing time for the ship and pickup delivery methods. Previously, you could configure the processing time for only the ship delivery method. For more information, see Scenario: Calculate item delivery or pickup date based on infinite capacity windows.

February 2022

Promising - Update to Node APIs

Node-related APIs have been enhanced with support for attributes such as address and geocode.

For more information, see Get basic node configurations, Set or update basic node configurations, and Delete basic node configurations.

Inventory - Update to supply and demand change published event: The Supply.Change and Demand.Change events in IBM® Sterling Inventory Visibility is updated to include a new attribute, adjustmentReason. This attribute contains the reason for supply and demand adjustment.
For more information, see Event formats.

August 2022

Promising - Manage carrier transit durations by using zones: Previously, you were expected to manage carrier transit durations by using APIs that accepted only three-digit postal codes. The logic is enhanced to enable configuring carrier service zones. The zones help manage carrier times for global postal codes. For more information, see Scenario: Calculate pre-purchase shipment assignments using infinite capacity windows.

January 2022

Promising - The Estimated item delivery date APIs now support the pick delivery method: The Estimated item delivery date APIs now support the pick delivery method in addition to the already existing ship delivery method. For more information about version 1 API, see Scenario: Calculate item delivery or pickup date based on infinite capacity windows. For more information about version 2API, see Scenario: Calculate item delivery or pickup date based on finite capacity windows.

Promising - Update to Calculate shipment assignments API

Carrier service is not accepted as an input for the Calculate shipment assignments API. Instead, you must pass one shipping group as input to the API.

For more information, see the Sterling Intelligent Promising API documentation.

November 2021

Promising - Update to the Estimated delivery date simulator

When you use the Estimated delivery date simulator in Order Hub, you now need to specify a shipping group to see the earliest date that an item can be delivered to a specified destination.

For more information, see Testing estimated delivery date configurations.

September 2021

Promising - Update to Calculate item delivery date API

Carrier service is not accepted as an input for the Calculate item delivery date API. Instead, you must pass one shipping group as input to the API.

For more information, see the Sterling Intelligent Promising API documentation.

May 2021

Inventory - Update to distribution group availability sync: When you add a ship node, you can now view the status of the job. When a job is created for Distribution Group Availability sync, the job's data field is populated with the changed distribution group nodes instead of the new nodes in the distribution group.
For more information, see ProductAvailabilityToSell.ShipNodeChange.

Inventory - Update to ProductAvailabilityToSell.ShipNodeChange, DgAvailabilityChange, and ProductAvailabilityToSell.ShipNodeSnapshot events, and the Get Detailed Node Availability API output: For these three events and the Get Detailed Node Availability API output, if the reserved quantity is greater than the available on-hand and future quantity, the withheld safety quantity and withheld reserved quantity is recalculated. Additionally, totalReservedQuantityWithheld is given precedence over the totalSafetyQuantityWithheld in the data that is published by the ProductAvailabilityToSell.ShipNodeChange, DgAvailabilityChange, and ProductAvailabilityToSell.ShipNodeSnapshot events, and the Get Detailed Node Availability API output.
For more information, see Events.

January 2021

Inventory - Update to ProductAvailabilityToSell.ShipNodeSnapshot event: The attributes earliestAvailableDate and latestAvailableDate are replaced with a more detailed APIs earliestOnhandAvailableDate, latestOnhandAvailableDate, earliestFutureAvailableDate, and latestFutureAvailableDate.
For more information, see Events.

October 2020

Inventory - API validation: An API call without passing the necessary attributes returns 400 Bad Request in the API output. For more information, see IBM Sterling Intelligent Promising API documentation.

February 2020

Inventory - Distribution group availability sync: The existing distribution group availability sync functions changed. For the availability at the distribution group to get updated, you no longer need to configure the value of syncDgAvailability attribute to Y. For more information, see Availability at a distribution group.