ITA PSS Inventory Control

ITA PSS Inventory Control is a single authoritative source of availability that works hand-in-hand with your revenue management department.

It is composed of two fully integrated, high-speed, scalable systems: DACS® (Dynamic Availability Calculating System) and ICS (Inventory Control Server). It’s a unique setup that significantly reduces query volumes on your legacy host system and lets you inventory and sell any combination of products and services at a far lower cost.

And because ITA PSS Inventory Control is highly adaptable and fully supports advanced revenue management methods, you can easily modify your merchandising models to meet changing business needs and customer demands.
 


Business Agility

Adapt to changing market conditions and deliver the commercial models you want

 

  • Lets you seamlessly deploy advanced business models, including a la carte optional services and products, branded fares, and bundled/unbundled pricing
  • Makes it easy for airline employees to create product and service attributes and bundle those attributes together to provide branded and targeted offerings
  • Fully supports codeshare partners, airline alliances, and distribution partners
  • Enables quick updates and increased productivity with an advanced, adaptable system, intuitive GUI design, and flexible filters
  • Accommodates mapping of booking codes by leg, segment, O&D controls, POS/channel, flight range, date, operating and marketing carrier, etc.
  • Offers configurable nesting structure, variable by market, geographic region, flight number, flight range, and date
  • Enables flexible aircraft and seat configurations:
    • All aircraft types supported
    • Seat configurations and AU for more than 100,000 seats
    • Multi-cabins, including cabins within cabins
    • Multiple inventory configurations per aircraft type 
  • Makes it easy for route controllers to modify inventory manually, adjusting selling levels to promote/restrict sales
  • Includes sophisticated role-based controls and configurable business logic based on airline rules and processes

 

Customer Centricity

Know your customers and give them what they want
 
  • Allows authorized users to access changes to inventory and new product offerings – consistently and from any customer touch point – via a centralized data repository
  • Enables targeted promotions and presentations of optional services for individual travelers and their companions based on user preferences and historical buying patterns


Rapid ROI

Capitalize on significant cost savings and untapped revenues

 

  • Allows you to inventory and sell any combination of products or services such as seat selection, meals, pillows, overhead bins, pets on board, and more
  • Supports advanced revenue management strategies, no matter how complex 
    • Full O&D controls such as bid price/gradient model and big price curve/bid price vector models
    • Journey Control logic
    • Complex POS control
    • Other advanced revenue management methods
  • Seamlessly integrates with revenue management systems and varying revenue management data
  • Enables automated adjustments of revenue management strategies
  • Offers a low cost method to store, calculate, and distribute availability without per-message charges for seamless query responses
  • Easy to use interfaces create efficiencies and improves accuracy
    • Reduces training times from weeks to days
    • Makes it easy for route controllers to modify inventory manually, adjusting selling levels to promote/restrict sales
    • Lets agents quickly narrow results and access more details with flexible filters

 


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