Optimize your Inventory Workflows with Inventory Reference Module 2.1.0

Here's what's new in Inventory Module 2.1.0: 

• Share your Inventory pool across regions or brands by sending Cross-Retailer events to Sub-Retailers' Virtual Catalogs whenever the Master-Retailer's Inventory Catalog is updated.
• Optimize Aggregate Virtual Position Available-to-Sell (ATS) calculations by extracting all relevant Controls at once, reducing the number of Control queries.
• Speed up and simplify the Inventory Reference Module configuration with optimized Reference Workflows, ensuring seamless module implementation and consistent approach across all the Reference Modules provided by Fluent Commerce.
• Manage Product attributes flexibly with any plain string values (for example, `JSON`) now accepted by the `UPSERT_PRODUCT` for a Product attribute `type`. Previously, saving a Product attribute `type` was restricted to the corresponding Enumerated type and `CUSTOM` values.
• And a fix for pagination issues with Inventory and Product Catalog Workflows Rules.

Rules and Utilities

• New Rules have been introduced to enable Cross-Retailer events sending for Master/Sub-Retailer(s) setup:
  • `NotifyVirtualCataloguesByRefsOnNetworksMatch`
  • `NotifyVirtualCataloguesOnNetworksMatch`
  • `NotifyVirtualCataloguesByTypesOnNetworksMatch`
• `CreateAggregateVirtualPosition` and `UpdateAggregateVirtualPosition` Rules have been optimized to load all the related Controls (by Product, its Categories, and list of Locations) at once for efficient Aggregate Virtual Position Available-to-Sell (ATS) calculations.
• Attribute Utils have been updated to use a plain `string` type instead of the `enum`, ensuring that a Product attribute `type` is saved in the same way as it was sent via the `UPSERT_PRODUCT` event.
• `NotifyVirtualCatalogueOnNetworkMatch` and `ValidateProductCategoriesExist` Rules have been extended with a pagination logic to ensure correct execution for the following scenarios:
  • A given Location belongs to more than 10 Networks, and the Virtual Catalog to be updated has a Network outside the first 10 Networks fetched.
  • A given Product has more than 100 Categories assigned. 

Reference Workflows

• All the Workflows:
  • `SendEventGQL` Rules have been switched to the `SendEvent` (Core Reference Module).
  • “Deactivate” Rulesets have been removed:
    • `DeactivateProductCatalogue`
    • `DeactivateIC`
    • `DeactivateIP`
    • `DeactivateIQ`
    • `DeactivateVC`
• Inventory Catalog Workflow:
  • `NotifyVirtualCatalogueOnNetworkMatch` Rules have been replaced with the new `NotifyVirtualCataloguesByRefsOnNetworksMatch` Rule for the `NotifyVirtualCatalogues` Ruleset.
  • `CalculateOnHandForFulfilment` Ruleset has been replaced with a generic `CalculateOnHand` one. `UpdateOnHandForFulfilment` Ruleset has been removed.
  • `UpdateInventoryQuantitiesStatus` Rule has been removed from the `BatchInventoryQuantityCreate` Ruleset.