Oracle Communications Order and Service Management (OSM) uses product specifications to group related commercial products that share certain attributes, and enable you to organize and reuse those attributes when you add new products to your catalog. When you assign a product to a product specification, it automatically inherits all the attributes defined in the product specification.
For example, consider that you have commercial products that customers can order called Web Gold, Web Silver, and Web Bronze. While the mailbox storage of these products may differ, they all can belong to a product specification called Internet and inherit all of the attributes that are common among Internet class products.
You do not create a new product specification in OSM, although OSM supports existing product specifications that were created in OSM. Instead, create a new conceptual model Product entity, which will then be mapped to a conceptual model fulfillment pattern, which is realized into an OSM fulfillment pattern. For more information about conceptual model products, see "About Products."
When modeling product specifications, refer to the following topics: