Optimization APIs

Idle APIs

The Idle API allows you to make an assessment of the benefits of optimization. You can call the API from your Order Management System when you want to accumulate baseline Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) without configuring any optimization weights within the Optimization service. The API request is sent to an internal queue for asynchronous processing. The baseline KPIs are computed after a predefined latency period of approximately 20 minutes.

For more information, see Idle API.

Rank APIs

The purpose of using the Optimization service is to lower the cost to serve while also balancing inventory at the network level. Therefore, it is important that the right set of ship nodes are optimized for a SKU in an order, which is achieved by using the Rank API.

For more information, see Rank API.

Optimizer APIs

The Optimizer API further optimizes the n ship nodes that are provided by the Rank API. This API accounts for real-time inventory positions and node capacity consumption.

For more information, see Optimizer API.

To understand the difference in the way cost computation is done for the Optimizer API and the Rank API, Comparing the Rank API and the Optimizer API.