You create Party specifications to model the people or organizations that interact with your inventory. Party specifications answer the business question of who is involved in your inventory.
Parties often play roles in your inventory. You can assign roles that are defined by Role specifications. You can assign one or more roles to an instance of a Party specification.
When working with Party specifications, see "Party Specification Editor" for reference information about the tabs you use to define a Party specification.
Use the Party Specification editor to model Party specifications. When working with Party specifications, see the following topics:
Use the Related Specifications tab to define and review specification relationships. Only relationships with the entity types listed in this tab are meaningful by default in UIM. If you add specifications to the Others section, you must define custom rulesets that trigger actions or behavior based on those relationships.
| Section | Use |
|---|---|
| Inventory Groups | Lists the specifications of inventory groups to which party entities based on this specification can belong. |
| Roles | Lists roles to which entities based on this Party specification can be assigned. |
| Others | Lists specifications of entities that have a customized relationship with entities based on this specification. |