Sterling 8.0 Sterling 8.

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Naming Changes
Sterling Multi-Channel Sterling Selling and Fulfillment
Fulfillment Suite
Sterling Multi-Channel
Fulfillment
Solution Analytics Business Intelligence
Sterling Multi-Channel
Fulfillment
Solution Configurator
Sterling Product Applications Manager
Management Catalog Management
Platform Changes
User can reduce the size of some
database tables by converting
some CHAR columns to VARCHAR
and Not Null columns to Null.
Users can specify a timeout setting
for long-running queries fired from
agents and RCP-based UIs.
Multi Tenancy
Supports

Single Instance , Single schema

based enterprise configurations.

These instances are not

connected to each other and
cannot share Configuration
data, such as hub-level
pipelines. They also might
require synchronization of Multi Context-Root deployment/
Configuration data. Multi -Instance deployment

Single Instance, Multi Schema

deployment.
Comments

No specification on details

Sterling suppors single application

instance on single database with A cluster
of application servers with a single
Enterprise Archive (EAR).

In a multiple context-root deployment,

each node on the application server can
have separate data for each enterprise or
groups of enterprises. This separation of
enterprises means that there is a
WebLogic EAR for each enterprise (or for a
group of enterprises) as well as a
customer-specified URL that points to
enterprise-specific login screens.

In this type of deployment, the

Configuration schema is shared by all
three enterprises, but each enterprise has
its own Transaction schema.
These instances are not
connected to each other
and cannot share
Configuration data, such
as hub-level pipelines.
They also might require
synchronization of
Configuration data.
Sterling 8.0 Sterling 8.5 Category
Introduction of Business
Center. This new feature
will control managing
catalog, item, pricing
information, as well as
pricing rules and coupons.
These have been moved
from Configurator and the
N/A Order capture system. Catalog Admin & pricing

New Catalog Sub-

Organization. You can
assign an enterprise
organization, other than
the catalog organization,
to maintain a
portion of the master
N/A catalog(categories) . Catalog Admin & pricing
Restrict Organizations
from accessing specific
categories of the Catalog
Organization. Catalog
organizations can define
selling entitlements that
grant and restrict other
organizations’ access to
categories in its catalog for
selling purposes. This
happens through a new
feature called
Entitlements Catalog Admin & pricing
Seperate Price Lists ;
Selling and Fulfillment
Foundation, Release 8.5,
enables you to assign a
price list to specific
customers, including all
business customers (B2B),
all consumer customers
(B2C), or anonymous
users. Pricing,DOM
Pricing Rules : Helps
manage special offers,
discounts, and charges at
either the order level or
the line level. Pricing, DOM
Coupons management is
supported in 8.5 . Coupon
Previously becomes a kind of a
YFSCollectionOthersU pricing rule that can
E was used to manage modify the price if specific
discounts and coupons. conditions are met. Pricing,DOM
 Extend Item Validation to
item’s effective date
range, minimum and
maximum
quantities, customer
Only validation of entitlements, item status,
product items against and whether the item is
enterprise calaog, and part of a physical kit or
service item in solution bundle that cannot be sold
existed separately DOM

Levels of Service :The

Level of Service feature
allows businesses to have
different
notification times based on
different levels of service. DOM
The Sterling Multi-
Channel Fulfillment
Solution sorts the list of
available
supplies in the order of
the first shippable date Item-Based Allocation :
(ETA), and matches the Configure the priority for
obtained list of scheduling orders based
demands using the top- on the order attributes(not DOM & Business process
down logic limited to ship date). Transactions
Inventory Caching : Item
availability is computed
and stored in cache. When
the
getAvailabilityFromCache
flag is set to Y, the
The availability of getItemListForOrdering API
inventory items was retrieves cached inventory
computed availability information
and obtained in real from the YFS_
time during an item INVENTORY_ALERTS_TABL Global Inventory
inquiry E during an item inquiry. Visibility
The
executePaymentTransa
ctions API executes a list
of payment transactions
without an existing order.
The supported payment
types include credit
cards, customer accounts,
stored value cards, and
other user-defined
payment types. DOM
 Deliver Together : The
Deliver Together Bundles
feature ensures that
separate line items in
bundled orders are
delivered together to the
same location at the same
time, even when the items
are sourced from different
nodes DOM
Sterling 8.5 supports the
processing of payments on
draft orders before the
draft orders are confirmed. Payments
Orders in Sterling 8.5
come with version tags or
Order tags. This version
awareness makes it
possible to schedule an
order in one version of the
Sterling Call Center and
Sterling Store, for
example, and schedule the
delivery of that order in
another version. DOM
Release 8.5, you can set a
configuration rule that
enables order approval
holds to be resolved
Define a hold type and automatically when an
process the holds. order is changed. Order Fulfillement
Access mutiple Nodes :
In releases prior to 8.5,
users worked in the
context of a single
warehouse node. In
Release 8.5, the Sterling
Warehouse Management
System supports the
assignment of multiple
nodes to a user, who can
use the same login to
access all the nodes. Users
can switch between nodes
and perform warehouse
operations without having
to log out and
log in again. Usability feature: WMS
Comments

This is going to be task based

GUI. More details on
configuration, after I receive the
doc set. It supports Indexed
Catalog search, create pricelists
and coupon usage charts.
the subcatalog
organization is responsible for
creating, assigning, and
maintaining items within the
authorized category. A
subcatalog’s items cannot be
edited by the catalog
organization or another
subcatalog organization, and the
subcatalog’s items are unique
within the catalog.
The Level of Service Details
window in the configurator lets
you define levels of service for
the enterprise. After you define
the enterprise’s levels of service,
set up
notification periods at the node
level for the enterprise’s
different levels
of service.

This prioritization is further

refined by other criteria such as
demands of chained orders,
demands of chained orders with
procurement nodes.. Etc.