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.