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