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  • 1.  How do you model promotions and discounts

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Aug 01, 2023 13:34

    Hello,

    From your experience with TMF data model, how do you model discounts/promotions (assuming it is pure billing item)?

    One approach is to model them as a separate offers. New discount - new product offer with price.

    Another approach would be to model is as part of the price model.

    In latter case, discounts and promotions will not be stored as part of product inventory (assuming all "monetary" items are stored in billing system).

    Where in first case, very likely it will go into product inventory.

    Thanks.



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    Igor Dubrovin
    Bell Canada
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  • 2.  RE: How do you model promotions and discounts

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Aug 02, 2023 03:10
    Edited by Matthieu Hattab Aug 14, 2023 15:40

    hi,
    it's vast topic.

    I'd suggest you read the guide books from TM Forum:

    • GB922 - Product (examples of promotions are given), IG1233, IG1261
    • search the term "promotion" in the TMF communities.
    • search the term"TMFC001" and "promotion" in TMF confluence
    • there is also the TMF671 promotion API with documentation.
    • IG1228 is also a good document with example of product models

    PS: you should have posted in the ODA community which covers the SID etc, here we talk about APIs.

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    Kind regards,

    Matthieu Hattab
    Lyse Platform
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  • 3.  RE: How do you model promotions and discounts

    TM Forum Member
    Posted Aug 02, 2023 13:40

    Thank you Matthieu.

    I'll dig into suggested docs.



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    Igor Dubrovin
    Bell Canada
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  • 4.  RE: How do you model promotions and discounts

    TM Forum Member
    Posted 21 days ago

    Hi Igor,

    I've the same question as you. Were you able to find the best way of accomplishing promotions and discounts? It would be great if you could share your approach and experience.



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    MMH HH
    Vodafone UK Ltd
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  • 5.  RE: How do you model promotions and discounts

    TM Forum Member
    Posted 21 days ago

    Hello,

    We have decided not to model promotions in our product inventory. But the documentation suggested by Matthieu has good overview of the model principles.

    Best regards,

    Igor



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    Igor Dubrovin
    Bell Canada
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  • 6.  RE: How do you model promotions and discounts

    TM Forum Member
    Posted 21 days ago
    Edited by Matthieu Hattab 20 days ago

    @Igor Dubrovin,

    are you sure you use "Product Inventory" to model promotions?

    "Product Inventory" stores some of the products that customer has bought. It doesn't sound like a good place to manage promotions from an offer perspective.

    EDIT: ignore this comment, misread the reply.

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    Kind regards,

    Matthieu Hattab
    Lyse Tele AS
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  • 7.  RE: How do you model promotions and discounts

    TM Forum Member
    Posted 21 days ago

    Agree. That why we didn't do that.



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    Igor Dubrovin
    Bell Canada
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