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  • 1.  Is 'Product Provisioning' the right term?

    Posted Apr 10, 2020 06:33
    Edited by Igor Veliev Apr 10, 2020 09:17

    TMF does not describe Order Management in terms of process, process templates, tasks and so on.
    How can we name within Product Order Management the sub-process of turning Product Order Item into Product in Inventory?

    As I was told, the 'provisioning' term in TMF may describe services, but not products. Is it correct?

    We need to name the type of process Specification related to specific productSpecificationId which is building block of whole POM(622) process.
    Please help us to be TMF-friendly, as TMF avoids modeling the process.

    Earlier we used the name 'Product Order Specification', but it overlaps with the name of TMF622.
    'Product Provisioning Specification' seems a bit confusing due to service only context.
    'Product Fulfillment Specification'? 'Product Processing Specification'?  Anything else?


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    Igor Veliev
    Netcracker Technology
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  • 2.  RE: Is 'Product Provisioning' the right term?

    Posted Apr 13, 2020 05:12
    Edited by Igor Veliev Apr 13, 2020 06:22
    @Ludovic Robert can you reply, please?​​

    If 'Product Provisioning' is incorrect then we are leaning towards the 'Product Fulfillment Specification' option.

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    Igor Veliev
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  • 3.  RE: Is 'Product Provisioning' the right term?

    Posted Apr 13, 2020 16:15
    Hi Igor
    Your question should more probably be discussed with eTOM and ODA team than with TMF API Team.
    I loop @David Milham that probbly can provide some guidance.

    Hope it helps
    Ludovic
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    Orange
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  • 4.  RE: Is 'Product Provisioning' the right term?

    Posted Apr 14, 2020 05:45
    Igor 
    if  you look at the Business Process Framework (aka eTOM)  you will see definitions of ordering and provisioning processes and there are example process flows 
    GB921E End-to-End Business Flows R17.5.1  
    GB921F Process Flow Examples R12.5
    A  joint study has just been started  in the ODA Functional Architecture and the ODA Technical Architecture teams focussed on an e2e Order to Cash Use case .
    The purpose is to show how the e2e Order process works across ODA core commerce and Production and the linkage to the Product Service and Resource domains in Frameworx ( eTOM and SID) and examples of how that might be implemented with ODA Components.  We have most of the piece parts spread across many documents and the ides is to pull it into a single narrative.
    the process work with API linkages is in the ODA Functional Architecture team , The next call is Thursday 30th April  at 14:00 GMT   15:00 BST 16:00 CET

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  • 5.  RE: Is 'Product Provisioning' the right term?

    Posted Apr 14, 2020 08:02
    Thank you Dave.
    The only place where I have found something about Customer Order related process is TAM, where 'Workflow' and 'Orchestration' terms used in 5.3.11.
    The 'Product Delivery' mentioned in eTOM is confusing because Customer Order Management part related to even single Product seems a bit more than a delivery service, but it's like orchestration of SOMs, Billing Systems, Product Inventory, Resource Inventory, automatic calculations, manual user tasks, and so on.

    It would be great to align eTOM, SID, TAM, and Open API in these process terms.

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    Netcracker Technology
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  • 6.  RE: Is 'Product Provisioning' the right term?

    Posted Apr 14, 2020 13:31
    Ivor Good feedback 
    Will raise this point with the ODA FA and Frameworx team leads

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  • 7.  RE: Is 'Product Provisioning' the right term?

    Posted Apr 13, 2020 11:43
    Hi Igor
    May be 'Product Delivery Specification'  it more significant
    Mohamed HMAOUI


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