Offer and Price Engine Considerations
You need to make some decisions regarding your implementation approach when using Offer and Price Engine (OPE). Depending on your business environment and the task you want to accomplish, you can use either the engine with out-of-the-box rules or a custom validation.
OPE performs validations against rules defined in the TIBCO Fulfillment Catalog.
If the OPE out-of-the-box rules do not support your required types of validation and offerings, you should consider the following:
- How to implement the OPE rules
- Where to invoke the OPE rules
- What technology to use to build the OPE rules.
In some cases, order validation and offerings are based on simple, static rules that do not refer to any external data and are based entirely on the order contents. This contrasts with catalogue-based OPE validation rules that are dynamically created from information in the product catalog.
If you add additional information to the order from an external installed base, you can include it in the validation rules and use path-based technology to implement the validation.
Ensure that you select the appropriate developer skill set when choosing an implementation approach for custom validation and offerings.