Magento Multi Source Inventory, 25 Jan 2019

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From YouTube: Magento MSI Open Demo. January 25, 2019

Description

Agenda:

1. Bug Fixes for upcoming `1.1.0` MSI release by @Slava Moskalyuk
2. Distance-Based algorithm regression testing update by @Slava Moskalyuk
3. Store Pickup updates (UI part) by Dmytro Poperechniy
4. Store Pickup update (Business logic part) by @iminiailo
5. Presentation of extension by Firebear studio extending MSI Import/Export functionality (https://firebearstudio.com/blog/how-to-import-and-export-magento-2-msi-and-how-it-works.html) by @Alexey

A

And switching into their accordion, unfortunately, our product owner mark can join us as his on nourishing presentation today, but he will be given the recording of today's human meeting, so he will watch it a little bit later so for today we have.

A

We have pretty tough schedule for you, so we will show you but fixes we've made during during this week and all the preparation for the for that common 1.1.1 is a release which, when I appear shortly and the like, we agreed the policy on the independent releases, because this is going to be a new start for magenta and the msi will be pioneering project which would be released independently out of the main magenta project.

A

We will provide additional documentation and polish see how this independent independent releases are supported, and would you support polish it for independence releases for comic or bundle extensions, which we call CDs and the other other big project, like page builder, gonna, to follow the same approach as msi does, but so our our agenda for today, at the beginning, so I will show you date on the pocket, excess 50, and he will demonstrate you also the regression for the distance based algorithm, because it's pretty big chunk of work and there are a lot of testing scenarios.

A

There are a lot of support with both offline and online distance providers and too many options need to be tested to need to be keep updated. Just to make sure that we don't bring any any any issues to this functionality, then we will switch to the store, pick up our activity and because stoke pickup is getting a new boss world in in magenta, in magenta environment, because everybody asking and about the store pickup and it's gonna- be ready when gonna be brought to the market.

A

So Dimitri will make a presentation of all the activities he's currently working on and also he will engage you to join his activities and then I will show also some some small update and store pickup. We have and tell a little bit more about out when it's gonna be started, how you can jump in to the store pickup activities, because many people already start working on on store pickup on integration of MSI. This point-of-sale application so that to be consistent and not and prevent you from migrating.

A

All the data from your solution to the magenta for solution, which is which MSI is in nearest future I, will provide more more insight and how it's going to be how it's going to be implemented and when it's going to be released, maybe and then we will switch to our to our guests to Alexi from fire beer to you who will make a presentation of the extension they implemented and this extension provides an ability of source import and export.

A

The extension extends MSI import/export so that Alex II will make a demonstration also join and also will share their insight and experience regarding how it was working with MSI service layer and how it was like working with MSI. Comparing with the previous inventory solution, we had in magenta before so I'm stopped talking and I'm I'm I'm, using myself and now Saleh will make a make, update for or all the it for this week.

B

Hello, everyone, let me share my screen and I'll, show you some small fixes in your eye what we have done on this week and just weeks it's about stop grid when we have on the stock. Many sources assign it with this I have created some nine additional sources and they assign it to this talk our test, talk and integrated made. So in this column a final source that, if we have more than five four sources assign it to tip, is made that.

B

On the grid, we see on the five of them, and here when we Hoover on sources assignment, have all other sources displayed. Additionally, its small fix, but it's I think it's convenient, especially when we have many many sources assignment to stop so another things, it's a similar approach, but it's the products grids and when we have products which have also inventory or many different sources, Mosin file.

B

So here we are I, have simple product with ten sources assign it to it, and let me show you how it's look now on probability after I have all assignment and I saved my product. We have a here column, quantity per source and also the same approach here that we have only 5 sources, what is displayed in the grid itself and such a pop up, the where we may see all other sources and quantity on source.

B

Also I will show you that, for example, if we change quantity on that would be source, 9 and I put many knives there inside.

B

So, let's see in all to tip the source, 9 would not present the grid, but in this pop-up who misses its source 9 as a quantity, they are updated properly. It's convenient a small implementation and another things. What also was fixed on this week's it's sucessful order. I do not actually for order, but for source selection algorithm. So I have already created some order and.

B

To see this, we need to go to social selection algorithm by clicking ship button, and we have some not very properly headers here we have had no bad wedding here, so its fix it now. It's looks much better I think so. This small Crixus would I have.

A

I, just sorry, I just wanted to say that the source of inspiration for us for the first fix the tooltip was parted from streaks agency, who actually showed us how how the greets looks like for his first project when these streaks launched like two months ago, so they were early adopters and they had a set up like more than 100 sources assigned to a single stock, and he showed us has how the grid looks like in this case, and it was definitely not the best UI experience that, after after we see that we had this ticket and but time flies and that's now we find it.

A

We found an ability to fix it, because we had more priority more tickets, with a high priority higher in the backlog, so that we we just fix it now. But we like not nothing. Nothing is forgotten. So we all all the caches and all the improvements we see got our backlog and when we have time with, we definitely spend it on improvements.

A

B

Proceed with further updates yeah and by the way all the fixes are made based upon, and he is contributor for all this free here, what I admit right now and another, since what it's more update that we do some tasting of source selection algorithm. So in our own he tablets we have 11. Scenarios would be dedicated to two types of selection, algorithms or authority and distance method.

B

Algorithm I saw Berger, actually told the loud Teemo that we are taking different scenario: different provider where, when they choose who kuma provide their own roommate choose offline calculation provider when we need to download additional tables so with longitude of the places for country. Also, there are different modes of computation like driving, walking bicycling. Unfortunately, my bison thing, it's not so common and Google, don't doesn't know a lot about how to drive bicycle without special overall. So this is quite tricky, computation mode and.

B

So far during our testing, we have not found any problem, so our algorithm working well I think the sole for me for today's. Thank you for your attention. Yeah.

A

And the small update, so we already have this distance based algorithm merged into two to three develop wrench. So then you can already deploy it in your testing environment and get against your hand dirty playing around with it. And if you find any issues or you can, you can consider some improvements to be added to this algorithm just add a small, so it is already we can all we it's already in our stable branch. We already did all the tests green on our on our test environment.

A

So don't hesitate to start playing around with auguries and make some experiment with it and taking into account that we didn't release it. Yet we can. We can introduce the latest changes if that gonna be like improve.

A

So thank you all for your update and the next one gonna be democracy. Who will show you some updates on on store pick up on multi chicken, so Dima. Please proceed sharing your screen. Okay,.

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C

I'm gonna tell.

D

D

The audio quality is very bad, is it just for me or not.

A

Not just for you, everybody yeah,.

D

You're, like a robot Dimitra.

E

Maybe he is maybe.

D

He is resistance, is futile.

A

So let's proceed: did you use the children testing first right.

D

Vitro tweak something on your end and let us know if you can't, you know, make it better than we'll just proceed.

C

Hello, the human yep, okay, much better, so let me proceed. I want to share with you that magenta is currently working on. Our team is currently working on implementing large number of addresses on one page god so for to achieve this goal, we decided to change the functionality and it is also close to store pickup.

C

Let me show what what we have the markups, so we decided not to display all the shipping addresses at once, but to lazy load them to display just default shipping address of the customer on the shipping section on one page, checkout or if a customer doesn't have a default address, then we displayed the.

C

Lastly, edit address to his account and so to search or to change, addresses we display mode model window with the select functionality based on UI, select to search for addresses and to please load them currently I'm working on the prototype, that's what I have so. This is I display default address here. Give.

A

Me a lot Korea there, just a small hint. You are not sharing screen.

C

Desktop share. Yes, oh you didn't see me before no.

E

C

E

Let's start from the top yeah.

C

From the top, so let me show the markups first and then what I have.

C

So it was decided to display not all shipping addresses at once, but to to display only the photographs or the lastly editor shipping address, and then we can either add address or change addresses by clicking it. It goes a window model window. Will the UI select component that search we decided to search by zip state or city, but not by all attributes anyway, you may be later, it will be.

C

This is our shelter. It will be modified and will search by all attributes, custom attributes either. So that's it so customer searcher and click on ship. It will speed up our edge code process and the rendering of all addresses, because there are customers with a huge amount of addresses. So that's what I am. Let me show what I have it's just a prototype, so here is default address or lastly, edit address is displayed in this section with custom attributes.

C

The customer has add new address, as it is currently on check out now or customer can change the address, and here a modal window displays, with my custom, attribute that extends UI select, attribute, currently I'm working on a search algorithm to display. It is not ready yet to display here on search results. We decided to search by zip state or city, not by all attributes.

C

Maybe later we will end this functionality and extended to search by custom attributes. Maybe we will implement new indexer, but for now, just like on mock-ups eager provided so we'll display, we'll search by city, safe and state.

C

So that's it yeah. This is for one paycheck out I. Once it will be done it multiple shipping and checkout will will be also extended and written to this UI select with the search functionality and and yes, Oh store. Pickup is also pretty close to the what what this markups, what I'm doing, but it will use another it will use its own template.

C

So my guess, that's it.

F

Can hear me yeah just for my understanding did. Did this touch inventory, behavior.

F

F

My understanding that this behavior and this behavior change you you.

F

Don't expect you changed anything inventory, behavior right so.

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A

Actually, the main idea that we would have almost the same UI for for the store peacock, because in-store pickup, we also will show addresses of different sources from where that the order could be fulfilled. We would literally you use the same, the same JavaScript components and probably will have slightly different HTML templates for rendering, but the main the main UI logic gonna be preaching the same apparently Demeter or mostly working on the UI part.

A

That's why we we want to reuse this part on the store, pickup functionality and also we want to engage developers, especially UI developers, who would like to jump in and help meter and help actually not just meter. But the magenta develop this in me tree or me, and we can. We can find the way how you can contribute on this track as well.

F

Good. Thank you. Yeah.

C

So and it's going to be implemented to magenta to the 3.2 right, I mean no one's one page code and motivating.

C

Okay, I'm stop sharing them. If you have any questions, I.

A

Believe so far, so good I hope that we would have more questions in future. If.

G

I actually yeah so about the custom addresses and how you can identify them in Magento. You guys considered identity, unique identifiers to custom addresses, because at the moment you can only identify the default shipping and before billing addresses the other dresses the customers are they actually do not have any unique identifiers, so you cannot target them so I'm, talking from the perspective of importing and exporting addresses.

C

So currently we will display here we will filter the addresses based on the. Lastly, edit addresses due to the custom address. Maybe- and maybe it's a it's just an idea to to filter them, but more often Lee used addresses if customer has orders but from.

A

Importing an expert in perspective magenta, usually don't expose the internal identity like, for example, Express in the product. We don't expose the product they give. You just expose the product askew, and in this case we have the natural identity and we don't have really natural identity for addresses or actually SME address. The really good example of the value object which identity is described by the combination of all the attributes.

G

So there will be no like unique attribute. You can actually refer to when calling for an address. So.

A

Currently, we did not dis, we did not. We did not want to introduces like artificial identity. Maybe it would be added when we would like in far future, when we will introduce, for example, you you IDs but for all entities, but this is not done in the near future for sure sure.

G

Kind of things so.

A

Probably the next slot is mine, at least according to legend, which I composed before the default meeting, and let me let me share my screen.

A

Actually wanted to open store the cup and the small update on the store pick up. I.

A

Just wanted to propose a ticket, we started we actually investigated, or we started to investigate it on during this week, and the main idea of the ticket may be. Some contributors would like to join us on this activity as well. So the main a key main idea, is how to build this search, especially for ZIP codes, because in case of city and state, we can proceed with the exact match and that will that will definitely work. But in case of zip codes.

A

Exact match would not give us good results, because people people searching by zip code to usually try to find the nearby allocation when they can grab some when they can grab some boots. They are ordering- and this is especially true for the store, pickup functionality- and this is this less true for that for the shipping addresses which mitri shown, probably in that case exact match, will also work.

A

But regarding the store, pickup search, we should not just provide the list of the stores located on the on the exact specified, zip code, but also the nearby zip codes. And we can proceed with that, because we can reuse our database of the zip code with geo coordinate, which we use for distance based algorithm. So this is another point how we can reuse reuse, the data we downloaded.

A

We retrieved from the from the from the service, which provides all the geo coordinates of latitude and longitude for ZIP codes in the country, and that's why we can. We can calculate the distance from the specified zip code and we can consider this that zip code specified by customer as a center of radius and provide like like radio we can. We can specify the radius like 10 miles, maybe 5 miles, maybe less and find all other zip codes which get into this circle and the showing the result page.

A

All these all these all these sources as it is as it is shown country on on my maka. So we started to investigate whether there might sequel queries which will calculate distances and we'll find all the zip or the dresses which which are nearby to the specified city for the dresses. So whether this Mexico players are fast enough to process them in run time, just on demand or do we need to have some pre calculated values? Maybe so we're currently started to investigate this.

A

This search for the, which would be definitely which will be definitely need for historical activity and if you guys have like a good knowledge of my sequel or you know, you're interested in jumping in pretty sophisticated and activities. Please let me know I will share with you more details.

A

Currently me started from this, and I also can touch with ricardo tempesta, who is not content with this meeting to to work on this functionality, there was a small update Riccardi regarding the store, pickup I thought that it would be interesting for those who who are eager to know about how hosts of the cup will will work and what we will suppose there.

A

So it's all regarding store pickup for now- and now, let's proceed to our next presenter to see from fire beer studio who make a presentation of the extension they recently released and he will shed some light.

A

Masai import/export functionality for beer, import expert in Ventura consumer and also share with you his insight on how of the MSI, whether it's good or not, to work with from the stem on to third party developer. So the pages. Yes, let's see things so.

G

As you guys may know, I represent fiber improved input, an excellent extension which highlights you can see right here. So basically, we improve native Magento to import and export procedures by introducing the schedules allowing to import and export more entities, including Magento to b2b extension entities such as companies, shared catalogs, quotes, negotiable quotes, requisition lists and so on. We have edit and amasai support recently, so we have added all the improved important export extension features to product quantity, import and export, and we have also allowed that customers to import and export the warehouses now.

G

The extension supports multiple file formats, category price and attribute map in input and export process scheduled in the exemption, is fully open code and impression fully from the Magento administration know.

G

As for the walk low or for the workflow, you can see it here and you can see that the extension product page. So this is it for quick introduction for improved input the next, but now for MSI the sauce quantity. We have actually made all the extension features available for the so source quantity, so customers can like, but the next part the quantities of the products pair were houses using different file formats on schedule.

G

So maybe they can integrate with the CRM systems or the ERP systems for further convenience, and if they store actual warehouses in their CRM systems, they can also synchronize every information about the warehouses with Magento tool. So as for the flow sample I composed the sample googoo suitable, where every attribute described and sample value given and edit a new line with msi new warehouse.

G

Actually there are four warehouse at my Magento instance, and I will be importing the fifth one just to show you how the input X but extension works. So the extension goes like this. We add a new input, job.

G

We name it, for example, msi test. We select the entity, we want to input and we are referring to stock sources which actually the warehouses says we come up with it.

G

Next we select the behavior and specify the link to the Google sheets and let import job validate the file and we run the job.

G

So the new warehouse should be already dead at the home screen.

G

And we can actually see right here, that's it for warehouses. We have gathered all the attributes used in the msi extension, the unique identifier for where how this is the source code next to have name if the warehouse enabled and basically all the attributes, a single warehouse can have now for the roadmap and actually important quantity, a product and warehouse. We want to somehow incorporate this entity into the products entity. So when customers are important or exporting products, they can actually upload different quantities per different warehouses without using two separate jobs.

G

So we want to let our customers use a single job and while Sankar is synchronizing the products with any CRM or ERP systems to synchronize the quantities were house of the msi.

G

So from the development standpoint and I think we've managed to come up with the msi add-on for improved import in about a week, so it was like I spent a single day working with msi in the Magento back-end, understanding how it works and what we can actually get important fast, because msi was trending as hell in the november and in december. So we just had to come up with something then just gather traffic traffic and let a customer something to work with, and I've composed this very guide.

G

You can actually see the link in the slack and described every attribute composed the table was sample data sample attributes which will use customers I expected to feel in the actual tables. They are important and that's pretty much it so for my overall experience with them asides being great and I'm hoping that we will do even more with MSI and important expert thanks.

A

Great thank you Alex for really interesting presentation. I believe that Alex resume would have some question as his leading import/export asynchronous import-export projects. Also that I believe that he may have some question.

A

E

With us I'm still here, but currently not really I will think about it and if I have a question, I'll come back. Yeah.

A

So mmm Alex days in an asset shell, so you can ping come directly yeah.

G

So feel free to give me deal.

A

Okay, so extra dialects, II was our last presenter and I don't know. Maybe someone else have some updates for us, and so you can still bring it to today's meeting and raise this question, if not, maybe maybe a sprinkle. So you asked about the lock cards and and the translation inside. Maybe you have something to tell us on that way. No.

A

Okay, so probably much oh I.

H

Have a question: yes, two weeks ago, you said you would contact pool to talk about the source level, reservation I, actually.

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A

Days on the meeting.

H

So you can ask him directly all right, because you said that he would make a presentation yeah some.

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A

So I with us, so you see that people required you to make a presentation and for how? How do you make the source level reservation Thanks.

A

In any case, so I see that always online, but I'm not sure whether he is still his PC, so I I will definitely right after this meeting, I will pimple and ask him to bring this presentation on the next next and Messiah diva meeting, which gonna be in a week and I also really want to see his presentation on how they, how they do this ourselves reservation, because source level reservation getting more and more trendy and a lot of people visible source level reservation.

A

They want to introduce kind of a cache layer and proceed the source, source selection, algorithm and so not to run it all the time dynamically and spend the resources on it so that, just after the water displays around the source selection algorithm and makes this source file reservation. So this is definitely pretty interesting stuff to be presented and I will approach Tom right after this meeting and ask him to make a presentation on the next week. I.

I

Do have a question for you sure so, for the in-store pickup you've mentioned that we're going to be doing some calculations using geo codes or the database of zip codes to see how close they are. hmm Are we going to support being able to filter by within so many 25 miles, fifty nine hundred miles? If people are getting a list of all of the stores nearby, then they can go pick up from will they be able to filter how far.

A

Yep good, really good question, so I believe that we will end up with something like into using.

A

You inventory configuration value which could be specified by maybe in the in the admin panel of magenta, like a radios by which we will will source for deep, or maybe it's gonna, be just a configuration value on the level of GI configuration. So probably, we need to hear Marc's opinion on that question, what's more appropriate in this case, so whether it's gonna be kind of developer. Experience of whether it's gonna be merchant experience to specify this parameter. But, yes, we will definitely introduce this radius.

A

So looks like max bronchus still can't manage his mic work. Do you hear me.

J

Yep yeah, hello, guys. Yes, so thank you for forgiving me a chance to speak yeah in terms of amasai project I, just join it to you guys and I started working on a CSV kind of small task, but with a small task, I would I would love to kind of start contributing because previously I didn't have a chance to work on a mess I just some documentation, presentations and YouTube videos.

J

So I didn't get a chance to properly work this business project and I'm sure that next time, I will have something like more developer meet to present for the next meeting.

A

Sure, and even like small tasks, is going to be a giant leap for for Magento merchants who want to support MSI on different languages, but I believe that would be really valuable.

A

Yes, yes, okay, so looks like this is pretty much all. Thank you guys for your time span. Thank you guys for your presentation and see you guys in a week, and I will definitely make everything possible to make Paul to present his source level reservation during the next demo Newton. Thank you guys. Bye thanks.

E

Everybody thank.

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