Blue Yonder's Inventory Availability microservice offers real-time, enterprise-wide visibility into inventory levels, enabling businesses to provide accurate product availability information across all sales channels. This solution enhances customer satisfaction by ensuring reliable order fulfillment and reducing instances of stockouts and overstocking. Key Features and Functionality: - Real-Time Inventory Visibility: Provides a comprehensive view of inventory across all locations and channels, including future and returned stock, ensuring accurate and timely information. - Intelligent Inventory Management: Utilizes AI and machine learning algorithms to predict customer demand, optimize safety stock levels, and dynamically adjust inventory allocations. - Flexible Reservations and Inventory Protection: Allows for precise in-stock/out-of-stock status updates and reserves items in customers' carts until checkout, minimizing cart abandonment. - Product Fulfillment Across Networks: Ensures that only available products are displayed for sale, enhancing the reliability of the customer experience across complex fulfillment networks. Primary Value and User Solutions: By implementing Blue Yonder's Inventory Availability service, businesses can deliver a superior omnichannel customer experience by providing accurate, real-time inventory information. This transparency builds customer trust, increases conversion rates, and optimizes inventory management. The solution also simplifies complex network orders and structures through intelligent AI-driven technology, leading to profitable order optimization and reduced operational costs.