Oracle Communications Order and Service Management (OSM) uses a set of stages, called orchestration stages, to separate the line items on an incoming order into related groups, each group meeting some common criteria. OSM sends these groups of line items to external systems to help fulfill the order. Orchestration stages are the logical steps OSM must take to ensure that the line items on an incoming order are sent to the proper systems in a sequence that honors any dependencies among the order line items.
When modeling orchestration stages, refer to the following topics: