Standards-Driven Available to Promise Architecture: Transforming Enterprise Commerce Through Reliable Inventory Promises
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https://doi.org/10.22399/ijcesen.4276Keywords:
Event-Driven Architecture, Inventory Visibility, Available To Promise, Cross-Channel Consistency, Supply Chain GovernanceAbstract
The article introduces an available to promise (ATP) reference architecture based on standards that are intended to overcome important inventory visibility issues in enterprise commerce. The architecture provides a concerted, event-based strategy that provides customer-facing inventory promises to be reliable of the real sellable inventory. Through rigorous design rules and governance, the organizations can get rid of differences across channels, lower the number of orders canceled, and increase the conversion rates dramatically. The model reinforces a single line of truth that is based on business engine tables and not on guesswork or mass computing. The architecture yields a set of consistent and reliable promises to all customer touchpoints by exercising disciplined filtering of inventory locations, stringent subtraction of near-term demand, and using confirmed future receipts. The implementation fundamentally changes the inventory visibility, which used to be a collection of fragmented estimates into a unified and reliable system that improves customer experience and operational efficiency. The article outlines implementation plans, performance measurement models, and improvement points in the future, taking into consideration the architectural trade-offs and governance demands.
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