Introduction
This article outlines the processes involved in fulfilment of a customer order in communications service provider environment. The objective is to highlight the series of processes and pain points to be addressed in implementation of Order Management (OM) & Provisioning system. These details will help stakeholders to get clear understanding of sub-processes and the associated pain points. In addition, it also provides the importance of process identification and documentation with sufficient details to reap the benefit of OSS implementations.

Table of Contents
OM/Provisioning view in eTOM framework
OM/Provisioning role in eTOM Operation Process
Fulfilment Processes
Illustrated Customer Order Fulfilment Flow
Order Entry & Data Validation
Order Decomposition
Design decomposed circuit/service
Internal & External plant work order commencement
Inventory verification, procurement & commissioning
Activate service/circuit
Integrate & Test
End-to-End Testing
Support customer test
Customer acceptance
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