Hi,
Linking Cost to ProductOffering or ProductSpecification is violating the separation of concerns principle.
Most costs result from the Production domains. Therefore costs must be associated to the appropriate entities from those productions domains.
I will try to give a few examples that come from extensions to the models that we have build for some of our customers.
1. smartphone sales.Service providers will typically to sell a range of different smartphone. The ResourceSpecification "smartphone" has a continously changing list of ResourceCandidates representing the models that I am currently buying. The Supply Chain department will maintain their ResourceCandidates in their catalog. Product Management gives each smartphone its own price
2. Home Gateway salesThe customer can't choose which model of homegateway he receives. This is decided later in supply chain. The customer pays one prices independent on the model he receives. Supply chain agrees purchase cost with vendors.
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Koen Peeters
OryxGateway
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Original Message:
Sent: May 05, 2022 07:40
From: Varun Nair
Subject: How to define Cost of Product Offering
Hi Sandeep,
Cost management API is now in pipeline and we will be starting working on that API specification soon. Happy to collaborate with you to understand your requirements.
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Varun Nair
Telstra Corporation
Note: This is an opinion based on my research and not an official TMF response.
Original Message:
Sent: May 05, 2022 03:23
From: Jonathan Goldberg
Subject: How to define Cost of Product Offering
Hi Sandeep
A Cost API has been is in the state of design, but it appears to have been reduced in priority.
I shall refer this post to them so that we can see what the current state is.
Specifically regarding your query, to me it makes sense that the cost is at the level of spec. Of course the cost may depend on the value of characteristics set in the catalog or at ordering time - I'm not sure that the information framework (SID) fully captures that dependency - @Cecile Ludwichowski what do you think?
Hope it helps
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Jonathan Goldberg
Amdocs Management Limited
Any opinions and statements made by me on this forum are purely personal, and do not necessarily reflect the position of the TM Forum or my employer.
Original Message:
Sent: May 04, 2022 04:23
From: Sandeep Munde
Subject: How to define Cost of Product Offering
Hi All,
Have some doubts related to cost of the product offering.
Objective: For B2B (Business to Business) scenarios we need to calculate profitability for the Product Offering, so here need to define Cost of the Product Offering.
In GB922-Product, we have reference of "ProductSpecificationCost" at Product Specification level. So does this mean, we need to define the Cost of product offering at Product Specification level? If yes, then there could be scenarios where different product offering may have different cost for the same specification. Then how to handle such scenarios?
There is no reference of Cost in TMF Open APIs. If you have any examples/models/references where cost of the product offering have been defined then please share the same.
Regards,
Sandeep Munde
+91 9850002868
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Sandeep Munde
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