The Service Inventory component is responsible for storage and exposure of CFS (Customer Facing Service) that are associated to Product Inventory items. It is also responsible for RFS (Resource Facing Service) definition, mapping between CFS and RFS and mapping with infrastructure/network resources. The Service Inventory component has functionality that enables inventory items creation, inventory organization, inventory search or filter, inventory monitoring and tracking, inventory control and inventory auditing. The minimum check to be performed at inventory items creation or update is the global consistency with related Service Catalog information.