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  • 1.  Contract Data Load

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Sep 28, 2018 06:25
    Hello ,
    We are working on API where our requirement to load the contract data in system which is coming from ordering tool. Please suggest which Open API fit in the context.

    Regards,
    Prasoon

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    Prasoon Sharma
    Orange
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  • 2.  RE: Contract Data Load

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Oct 02, 2018 11:48
    Suggest you take a look at Product Ordering Management (TMF 622) as a start. But it does depend what you mean by "Contract":
    • If you mean the typical contract document for residential services, this would typically be stored as an attachment on the order
    • If you mean a more complex agreement for business/corporate, this would have to be dealt with as an agreement with terms, and possibly the API would need to be enhanced

    In any case I suggest you reach out to @Ludovic Robert, the current leader for this API, to discuss your use case with him in more detail.​

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    Jonathan Goldberg
    Amdocs Management Limited
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  • 3.  RE: Contract Data Load

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Oct 03, 2018 05:58
    Hi, 
    my view on it:
    if I understand it correctly, a "contract" in your case corresponds to a "subscription" both of which terms are not used by the TMForum due to the ambiguous use of these in the industry. 
    The corresponding object in the TMForum SID /OpenAPI is the product (instance- not used by TMF), thus in fact you are mainly loading into the ProductInventory and thus the ProductInventory API would be the one.

    In many cases (as maybe in yours) however, the ProductInventory would be populated by ProductOrdering, so you could use the ProductOrdering API to import orders from your system and the Order Management System implementing the ProductOrdering API might populate the ProductInventory (via API or not) as a regular ordering process.

    Regards,

    Andreas

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    Andreas Schlüter
    NTT DATA CORPORATION
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