Uses of Product and Service Inventory
You can use Product and Service Inventory to:
- Store data (characteristics) related to the Parties
- Create hierarchical party support for coping with complex organizations, such as an enterprise comprising of many groups or employees
- Create a complex structure of item support to allow storage of complex relationships defined in the Fulfillment Catalog (ProductComprisedOf or ProductDependsOn relationships stored with products)
- Store data (characteristics) related to the Items
- Store related orders for an item so that you can walk through the item history
- Create a relationship between party and item, or, if no party is used, adding a party name to an item for retrieval of subscriber products
- Implement CRUD operations for data management on both party and item
- Search both party and item
- Lock a resource to be protected against other concurrent updates
- Create a batch that allows multiple updates to be grouped, either committed, or rolled back entirely
- Implement access management for user roles and users, so that the access can be restricted
- Implement multi-tenancy for cloud-based deployment and operation for multiple customers