MSI Roadmap
MSI Backlog which describes the deliverable state of Multi-Source Inventory project.
See current status on the Project Board for Milestone 2 on ZenHub
As MSI considered as a community-driven project - all the work implemented along the project will belong to Magento Open Source edition (former Magento CE).
There are 3 Milestones where we started investigation/design/coding:
- Milestone 1, Minimal Viable Product
- Milestone 2, Preparation for 2.3.0 Magento Release
- Milestone 3, New Inventory Configuration, B2B, Elasticsearch
- Milestone 4, Rest of Product Backlog
Story Size Estimation: S=1, M=3, L=10, XL=20
See MLS1 Burndown report on ZenHub (COMPLETE)
| Status | Estimate | Story | PR(s) | Open Tickets | Zenhub Epic |
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| ✅ | 1 | Introduce new API for Source Management | 28 | ||
| ✅ | 1 | Provide Web API for Source Management | 26 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Manage multiple sources admin UI | 28, 37, 32 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Introduce APIs for products assignment to sources. SourceItem interface and its Repository. Cover source item management scenarios with Web API tests | 38, 36 | ||
| ✅ | 1 | Read API. Stock interface and its management | 35 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Source assignment per each product Admin UI | |||
| ✅ | 1 | Sources to Stock assignment API | 39 | ||
| ✅ | 1 | Admin UI for Sources to Stock assignment | 39 | ||
| ✅ | 1 | Cover with WEB API all existing scenarios for SourceItem and Source to Stock linkage | 53 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | New indexing of Inventory and creating Virtual Aggregated Stock Items based on linkage rules | 49 | ||
| ✅ | 10 | Introduce Reservation API. Append only reservations | 64 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Implement runtime calculation of Stock Quantity taking into account the reservations happened | 94 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Implement Reservation Clean-Up | 94 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Default Source and Stock. Creation of Default Source and Stock for it. Including admin UI | 113, 121, 118, 122, 126 | ||
| ✅ | 10 | Import/Export of Sources (new functionality + admin UI) | 147, 116 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Add Drop Shipping support | |||
| ✅ | 3 | Make Stock calculation and check availability services to support Backorders functionality | 156 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Multi Dimensional Index for Stock Inventory. Add support to invalidate all dimensions/some dimensions/partial update | 141 | ||
| ✅ | 1 | Stock to Website mapping (with possibility of mapping to custom Sales Channels) | |||
| ✅ | 3 | Add Stock/Website mapping UI | 168, 173 | ||
| ✅ | 1 | Stock Removal. Throw an exception and allow to delete just unassigned stocks | 171 | ||
| ✅ | 1 | Website creation. We should assign Default stock to newly created website. | 165 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Add new index on Reservation which will update both OLD StockItem::Qty and StockStatus::Qty | 170 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Migration M1.X, M2.1.X -> MSI | 198 | ||
| ✅ | 1 | Import/Export of products aware of Sources | 211 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Adapt OLD Cataloginventory StockItem to work through new Inventory interfaces | 198 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Adapt OLD Cataloginventory StockStatus to work through new Inventory interfaces | 198 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Checkout adaptation. Adapt CatalogInventory\StockItem configuration for Multi-Source purposes | |||
| ✅ | 3 | Substitute stock deduction on current checkout flow with Reservation placement. Async stock deduction | 295 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Admin part (order in admin panel). Substitute stock deduction in admin panel with Reservation placement | |||
| ✅ | 3 | Introduce Source Selection Algorithm extension point | |||
| ✅ | 3 | Add Source Code attribute, to provide an ability not to depend on internal Magento surrogate identity (SourceId). Fix Product and SourceItem import/export functionality, which currently use SourceId (Added to MVP backlog by request of Mark) | 307, 298 | ||
| ✅ | 3 | Add Source Delivery awareness to Order page | 315 | Tickets |
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| ✅ | 1 | Run Source Selection Algo by request on Order page | Tickets |
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| ✅ | 3 | Adapt Returns (SalesInventory). All returns should happen on Default Source | Tickets |
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| ✅ | 3 | Low Stock Notifications to Merchant on the level of source. | 321 | Tickets |
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| ✅ | 1 | Product Alert for Customers on the level of stock Product Alert). | Tickets |
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| ✅ | 1 | Update Low Stock Report | Epic | ||
| ✅ | 5 | Adapt OLD CatalogInventory all other APIs | 269, 304 | Tickets |
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| ✅ | 5 | Inventory Catalog Search | Tickets |
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| ✅ | 5 | Shopping Cart Update | Tickets |
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| ✅ | 3 | Simplest “By Priority” Algorithm implementation | Tickets |
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| ✅ | 1 | Processing of different order statuses. Reorder (close Reservation, create new Reservation) |
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| ✅ | 1 | Processing of different order statuses. Cancel Order, Partial cancel | Tickets |
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| ✅ | 1 | Change qty on Invoice step of Order page | Tickets |
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| ✅ | 1 | Adapt All cache invalidation taking into account new extension points (new Inventory APIs) |
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| ✅ | 3 | Make Source Selection Algorithm to be compatible with: Configurable product |
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| ✅ | 3 | Update/Change source assignment in the existing orders |
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| ✅ | 10 | Add MSI content to Merchant documentation |
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| ✅ | 10 | Basic MFTF Test Coverage |
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Milestone 2: Preparation for 2.3.0 Magento release, Group product type support, Mass Inventory re-assignment. Stabilization. 13th of July, 2018 - 16th of November, 2018.
Story Size Estimation: S=1, M=3, L=10, XL=20
See MLS2 Burndown report on ZenHub (COMPLETE)
| Status | Estimate | Story | PR(s) | Open Tickets | Zenhub Epic |
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| ✅ | L | Add Support of Multi-Sourcing for Grouped product |
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| ✅ | L | Mass Inventory action (re-assign Source Items from/to different sources) |
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| ✅ | S | Support Negative Threshold for Backorder functionality |
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| ✅ | L | Prepare MSI for 2.3 Magento Release |
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Milestone 3: New Inventory Configuration, Full B2B support, Elasticsearch support, Distance Based Algorithm
| Status | Estimate | Story | PR(s) | Open Tickets | Zenhub Epic |
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| L | Source Item Configuration API | 1553 |
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| XL | Stock Item Configuration API | 1553 |
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| M | Full support of Multi-Sourcing in B2B edition | ||||
| M | Full support of Multi-Sourcing for Elasticsearch adapter |
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| XL | Add Support of Multi-Sourcing for Bundle product | ||||
| L | “Minimal delivery cost” Algorithm (Geo Positioning Based source selection) (Using ZIP addresses open database) | 1866 |
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| XL | MFTF Test Coverage of S0/S1 scenarious | ||||
| XL | Store pickup support for Multi-Source Inventory | ||||
| L | Performance Improvements | 1937 |
Story Size Estimation: S=1, M=3, L=10, XL=20
| Status | Estimate | Story | PR(s) | Open Tickets | Zenhub Epic |
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| M | Add an ability to assign additional sources to Default Stock (has dependencies on Bundle and Grouped product support) | ||||
| M | Make Default Source/Stock switchable (has dependencies on Bundle and Grouped product support) | ||||
| M | Reservation on the level of Source | ||||
| M | Stock Reservation by time (Shopping Cart reservation by time) | ||||
| M | Performance improvements, cover MSI with PAT scenarious | ||||
| S | Add ability to specify that Source has some type (aka Dropshipper) to apply it for source selection | ||||
| S | MSI + Product GraphQL API integration | ||||
| M | Drop existing CatalogInventory index and fully substitute it with new one provided by MSI (has dependencies on Bundle and Grouped product support) |
- Eliminate EE functionality of ScalableInventory Epic
(S) (moved from MLS1)
- Configuration of the Shipping Options per source (M) (moved from MLS1)
- Product assignment per each source Admin UI (M) (Postponed)
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Delivery Time Information(REMOVED FROM SCOPE) (M) - Improve modularity of Inventory. Make it agnostic to Sales, Checkout, Quote. (M)
- Integrate Source Selection Algorithm to Checkout process (XL)
(S) (moved from MLS1)