12 Working with Orchestration Fulfillment Patterns
Oracle Communications Order and Service Management (OSM) uses orchestration fulfillment patterns to describe the structure of a set of products. Many conceptual model products or OSM orchestration product specifications can map to the same orchestration fulfillment pattern, which enables you to introduce new products without requiring new fulfillment patterns in Oracle Communications Design Studio. Additionally, you can create base specifications that you reuse and extend to reduce the amount of modeling necessary to represent the types of products supported in your product catalog.
OSM must determine the orchestration fulfillment pattern for every order item on an incoming order. OSM acquires the orchestration fulfillment pattern from the property on the order item that is specified in the Fulfillment Pattern Mapping field in the Property Mapping tab in the Order Item Specification editor. OSM uses the orchestration fulfillment pattern to determine to which order components to add an order item and what dependencies exist between the order components.
OSM supports importing fulfillment patterns from the Oracle Siebel CRM product catalog through the use of an Enterprise Business Service (EBS). The EBS supports a query interface that enables modelers to specify a Siebel product class ID and retrieve its definition. During modeling, in Design Studio, you map the product or orchestration product specification definition to a fulfillment pattern. See "Configuring Product-Specification-to-Fulfillment-Pattern Mapping" for more information.
When working with orchestration fulfillment patterns, refer to the following topics: