Hi,
I'm not sure it helps, but I can share our experience. At Marand, we developed a SID-based unified product catalog that drives most BSS components. To make a single internet product offering for all bandwidths possible, we extended our internal implementation of the SID with a concept called 'parametric price'.
We simply associated characteristic's domain elements with price amounts. The simplest version is a single-characteristic price (e.g. bandwidth drives the amount selection). The more complex version is when several characteristics drive the amount selection (e.g. L1 technology {fiber, copper, LTE,...}, L2 technology {ADSL, VDSL,....}, and bandwidth). The bandwidth characteristic is normally used for service provisioning, so the main benefit of characteristic-driven prices is to ensure OSS provisions the same characteristic value that BSS (billing) charges. This way, you prevent revenue leaks.
On the other hand, we approached the solution with several product offerings when there was a necessity to establish relationships between the internet offering and different parent offerings (e.g. bundles), different child offerings (e.g. add-ons) or in case of different accounting rules based on the offering.
Hope you'll find this useful.
Regards,
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Bostjan Keber, Think!PLM product manager,
Marand d.o.o.
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Original Message:
Sent: Nov 22, 2018 10:25
From: Artem Brayko
Subject: Aggregate ProductOffering
Hi,
Is it possible to group several ProductOffering into one if they correspond to different characteristics of the product?
For example, there are two Internet ProductOffering. The first one is for a speed of 100 Mbit / s and a periodic price of $ 10, and the second one is 50 Mbit / s and a periodic price of $ 7.
Is it possible to aggregate them in one ProductOffering with two prices having different PricePolicy. The SID model does not prohibit this, but in "TMF620_Product_Catalog_Management" the ProductOfferingPrice does not correlate with prodSpecCharValueUse of ProductOffering.
Thank you in advance.
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Artem Brayko
"Rostelecom Information Technology"
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