Business Partner Offering Development & Retirement::On-board Business Partner Product Specification & Offering::Define Business Partner Product Offering Involvement

Define Business Partner Product Offering Involvement on-boards a product offering from the another Business Partner's catalog to the enterprise’s inventory of product offerings and its catalogs.  It also manages the relationships between an enterprises product offering and that of another Business Partner; for example a relationship that indicates an enterprises orders an offering from another Business Partner. Until an on-boarding agreement is approved the product offering is marked as tentatively on-boarded. Once the agreement is approved the offering is marked as on-boarded.<br/><br/>It defines the involvement from a process perspective that a Business Partner, including the enterprise, has with its offering.  For example, if a Business Partner takes an order, fulfills it after taking the order, accepts payment, receives payment, after sales service provided for the offering after it is acquired, and so forth.<br/><br/>It also manages the enterprise's relationship with a product offering and its relationship with those provided by another Business Partner. For example, an enterprise may make an offering available on behalf of another Business Partner or acquire an offering for re-sale from another Business Partner.<br/><br/>It is also used to modify the involvement associated with a Business Partner's, including the enterprise, product offerings. For example, if the Business Partner who accept payments for a purchased product offering changes.<br/>