| Business DEX (UK_Defence051):— product_location | Date: 2010/03/15 15:15:36 Revision: 1.10 |
The main information requirements of this data exchange specification are to be able to identify a product, including its serial number, part number and NSN, together with the dates between which it is planned to be and actually has been, at a specified geographical location. The main trigger for the creation of such data is when a product is moved. In these circumstances, the new location information is created, and it it is sometimes neccessary to know where the product has come from. Therefore, the sequence of locations needs to be represented. There is potentially an implied sequence that may be derivable from the start and end dates associated with product locations, but relying on these alone could cause significant processing overhead if the data exchange set was large. It would only be possible if all the date information were present and correct. Therefore an explicit sequence relationship is required. Lastly, some applications need to reference to the activity that was responsible for the movement of the product and therefore that relationship has to be represented.
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Information requirement |
Business Object(s) |
|---|---|
| The information that is used to define the message that performs the transmission of the product location information between the source and destination UK_Defence processes. | Message, Record |
| The identification of the product for which the location information is recorded, including its serial number, part number and NSN. | Product, Product Design, NATO Item of Supply Specification, Product Location |
| The dates when a product is planned to be located at and removed from a location | Activity, Product Location Change, Product Location, Location, Transportation |
| The dates when a product is actually located at and removed from a location. | Activity, Product Location Change, Product Location, Location, Transportation |
| The sequence of locations at which a product has been located. | Product Location Change, Product Location, Location, |
| The activity that was undertaken in order to change the location of the product. | Activity |
Table 1 — product_location information requirements
In terms of business objects, these information requirements are modelled as shown below in Figure 1.
NOTE For clarity, not all of the dependent business objects - those that will make the model referentially complete - have been included on the diagram.
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