Lifecycle management Use Case

The catalog management API allows the management of the entire lifecycle of the catalog elements.
UC1: A partner updates his catalog. He notifies his distributor the catalog change. The distributor requests a catalog export. Then, he retrieves the catalog at the provided URL.

UC2: A partner updates his catalog. He notifies all catalog changes in detail to his distributor. This one updates his catalog copy.

UC3: A catalog administrator wants to retrieve effective duration of a product offering based on product offering identifier or other search criteria (GET/productOffering).
UC4: A catalog administrator wants to retrieve all the bundled product offerings included in a product offering bundle (GET/productOffering).
UC5: A catalog administrator wants to update the lifecycle status (from Launched to retired for example) of a product offering (PUT or PATCH/productOffering).

Order management Use Case

The catalog management API allows the lookup of the catalog elements during order capture.
UC1: A distributor wants to browse product offerings during order capture and to retrieve product offerings belonging to a given category, for a given channel and a given place. He gets all details on product offerings, product offering prices, product specifications and its characteristics (GET/depth).
UC2: A distributor wants to retrieve the characteristics including prices of a given product offering (GET/productOffering).
UC3: A distributor wants to know if a product offering is available at customer's location (GET/productOffering).
UC4: A distributor wants to know which SLA applies on a given product offering (GET/productOffering).
UC5: A distributor wants to retrieve all product offerings belonging to a partner (GET/productOffering).