Improving Search, Filtering, and Aggregations across the Inventory Domain

Explore a number of improvements that have been made to the GraphQL APIs, which allow for new and better ways to query Inventory data:

• Perform advanced searches for Product, Inventory, and Virtual Catalogues as well as Control Groups by their related Retailers, including scenarios with multiple Retailer references specified.
• Easily understand and monitor your actual state of Inventory with the following additions:
  • Multi-select filtering for:
    • Inventory Positions by Inventory Catalogues
    • Virtual Positions by Virtual Catalogues
  • Comparison and range filtering for: 
    • Inventory Positions by Stock on Hand (SOH) quantity
    • Virtual Positions by Available to Sell (ATS) quantity
• Analyze your Stock on Hand results faster with handy Inventory Quantity Aggregations by Type, Status, and Date Range per Inventory Position, with support for customer-specific Inventory Quantity Types and Statuses.
• Enhancing search performance across the Inventory Domain.
• And a fix for `NO_MATCH` Events, eliminating the risk of Close Matches feature exceptions.

📢 Future Development Announcement

The Improvements highlighted above are the required Backend changes that will drive the planned User Interface capabilities. They are the first step towards a Unified View of Inventory - a clear and intuitive User Interface that is fine-tuned to Business Optimizers' operational and strategic needs, thereby streamlining your workflow and supporting decision-making with relevant tools and data visualization.

Stay tuned for more updates!

GraphQL API

• GraphQL queries: `productCatalogues`, `inventoryCatalogues`, `virtualCatalogues`, and `controlGroups` have been extended with the `retailerRefs` argument support to enable case-insensitive exact-match search by single and multiple Retailer References.
• GraphQL queries: `inventoryPositions` and  `virtualPositions`  have been improved with the following:
  • `catalogues` arguments, enabling filtering by multiple Inventory and Virtual Catalogues.
  • `IntRange` comparison arguments, providing `from`(>=) and `to`(<=) inputs for advanced filtering by quantity:
    • `onHandRange` input field for `inventoryPositions`
    • `quantityRange` input field for `virtualPositions`
• `InventoryPosition` type has been extended with a new `quantitiesAggregate` field, enabling Inventory Quantity Aggregations by Type, Status, and Date Range per Inventory Position.

• Pattern search using wildcards is not supported for the retailerRefs argument in the productCatalogues, inventoryCatalogues, virtualCatalogues, and controlGroups GraphQL queries. Additionally, Control Groups, Products, Inventory, and Virtual Catalogues without a specified Retailer reference will not appear in the search results.
• The retailerRefs argument in the productCatalogues, inventoryCatalogues, virtualCatalogues, and controlGroups GraphQL queries is not supported for the Reference Rule Plugins because of the utilized Apollo Client restrictions.
• The catalogue argument (inventoryPositions example) has been deprecated. The new catalogues argument is recommended for inventoryPositions, inventoryQuantities, and virtualPositions GraphQL queries.
• Inventory Quantity Aggregation GraphQL queries have increased Complexity Weighting of 10.