Frameworx Application: Supplier/Partner Product Lifecycle Management

Category: (2) TAM Application Type

Application Identifier: 8.2.6

Maturity Level: 4

Overview

Partner Product Lifecycle Management provides the necessary functionality to onboard or incorporate a partner's prospective product(s) into the service provider's product catalog or "store front", the partner's store front, etc.  This functionality also includes the capability to manage the partner's product lifecycle from inception to retirement.

Partner products can include tangible and intangible products based on resources, services and applications.

Functionality

Product Lifecycle Management functionality includes:

• Product onboarding, updates, and decommissioning
• Product certification/decertification
• Initiation of product instantiation into the service provider product catalog and/or store front, including product prices.

Note:  Any further price negotiation for a given product will be done in S/P Relationship Management

Supported Business Services

(2) TAM Application Type Supplier/Partner Product Lifecycle Management

Appears on these diagrams:

• 8.2 Supplier/Partner Management
• Mapping TAM Supplier/Partner Management

Issues

• Application Framework 13.0 Addition

Frameworx Domains (Horizontal)

• Supplier_Partner Domain

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