Working with Business Interaction Specifications

You use Business Interaction specifications to define arrangements or transactions that provide context to actions performed on entities in the inventory. You can define specifications for business interactions such as service orders, projects, work orders, tasks, and plans.

A business interaction in UIM provides a context for tracking the transactions that are performed against the inventory. Any additions, changes, or deletions to items in the inventory made under the context of a business interaction are included in its transactions. The transactions associated with a business interaction become effective when the business interaction is completed, and they are canceled when the business interaction is canceled. Business interactions provide traceability and auditability. They also enable transaction cancellations and changes. Business interactions can include child business interactions.

You create Business Interaction specifications in the same manner as you create other types of specifications. See "Creating New Specifications" for more information.

See "Business Interaction Specification Editor" for reference information about the tabs you use to define a Business Interaction specification.