Inventory Management

Agenda

• Definition

• Next generation provisioning for next generation services

• A view of the Inventory

• Logical Architecture Overview

• To Provisioning

• To BOSS

• To Inventory Management

• Key Findings

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• Why Sytel Reply?
Definition
 What is Inventory Management?
“Inventory systems keep track of resources
used to provision service.
These resources may be physical assets or
they may be logical resources.

… modern systems not only track the inventory,

but control the assignment of that inventory with
systems that understand how to consume, allocate
and combine resources to support complex
connections and services.”

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Next generation provisioning for next generation services
Next generation provisioning for next generation services
Many Applications Many Devices
Mobile TV

Location Many Networks

Services Interactive 2G 2.5G
Gaming UMTS
Video Call Push To 3G Edge
Email, Web Talk
SMS WiMAX
LTE
Voice
Wireline A Massive Number of
Many Applications Fragile Custom Processes
Many Create Flows
Many Devices that are a Maintenance
Many Networks X Many Modify Flows
Many Delete Flows
X Many Services
Many Bundles = Nightmare and Inhibit the
Many Systems Creation of New Bundles

Currently the knowledge of service and product bundling is spread across the many OSS
and BSS systems used by a service provider. To alter this bundling requires changes to
many systems and processes, It is very difficult to complete the necessary software
development in such a short time. A different and new approach is clearly necessary.
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 A new approach
Products and services are assembled and strictly integrated
•Competition is driving service providers to
introduce new services and scale subscriber
numbers more rapidly.

•Complexity of new services is increasing and

greater flexibility is required to deliver them.

•The need to Optimize cost, gain agility and offer

new and better services to customers.

•Need to shorten time to market and reduce the

integration cost associated with Multiple vendors,
applications, and technologies.

•Eliminate errors ,reduce operation cost and

optimize business processes to reduce fallout rate
and achieve higher profitability.

•Enhance customer loyalty and reduce churn rate

by providing a better customer experience

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A View of the Inventory
 A View of the Inventory

Manage Customer, Resource & Service

Relationship

Manage Service Inventory

Manage Service Capacity Delivery

Manage Physical and Logical

Resources

Design & Assign

Network Planning & Deployment

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Logical Architecture Overview
 Logical Architecture Overview

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 BOSS Logical Architecture Overview
Customer Relationship Inventory Management plays the role of
Management
linkage between BSS & OSS processes,
Order Management & Enterprise functionalities and operations. With
Order Orchestration Management
Provisioning & Fulfillment domain, it
Billing & Revenue drives all the BSS order to the OSS &
Data Management Service Fulfillment
Management Network comand to Service Activation

WorkFlow Process Engine

Service Service
Orchestrator Inventory

Diagnostic

Monitoring
Service

Quality
Service
Resource &&
Provisioning

User
Resource Provisioning
System
System

Service Net
12 Activation Reconciliation
 Logical Model of Inventory Management System
Maps Order into
Service Component

Service Catalogue
Manages & Describes
Network & Services
Inventory Project Design
Designs the service and
issue task order to
Resource Repository Delivery and Activation
workflow process

Inventory Project
Resources Sync
Delivery Ensures Resource
Packages into activation repository automatic
request for any population and accurate
Mediation and Activation view of network. It is used
platform. Mediation Layer for reconciliation policy on
network discrepancies

ActivationLayer

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Key Findings
 Key Findings
Inventory systems Manage Service Object as a completion of Service Ordering &
Fulfillment process.
Mapping between Service & Product Catalogue and Service & Product Inventory is core
in a Fulfillment System.

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Why Sytel Reply?
 Why Sytel Reply
• Deep understanding of Telco market &
context
• Competences on in-scope processes
• Methodology and strong project
management abilities
• Flexibility TELCO &
MEDIA
• Result-driven consultancy approach
CLIENT
• Strong technical background and a highly
specialized software factory
• Reply Knowhow is applicable to the Reply
principal third parties’ market applications.

Know-
Approach
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Sytel Reply: what’s next
 Sytel Reply: what’s next
Service & Network Inventory is one of the
core functionalities of the OSS.
Dealing with Inventory issues, means being
at the center of the core OSS Business of a
Client, controlling the edge frontier between
BSS and OSS/Network.
Sytel Reply Covers this issue, providing our
clients with the best experiences, technical
and strategic approach, dealing with the
best market solution, different for each client
or context.
We can bring a breath of new innovation in
a world of stateless solution and
architecture, in order to ferry our client
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