2025 Oct
Currently, Mplify has defined a Product Identifier and a Service Identifier that are used to identify either a Product or a Service. To identify an entity that is above the Product level, this document introduces the Commercial Service Identifier.
The Commercial Service Identifier is similar to the Product or Service Identifiers, but it is used to identify a Commercial Service. A Commercial Service is made up of one or more Products and/or zero or more Commercial Services. A Commercial Service may also include non-Mplify products and/or services (e.g., Cloud/VM).
An example of when a Commercial Service Identifier is used to group multiple Products together is when a Commercial Service ID is assigned to a location where the Buyer has multiple Products all for the same customer. A single Commercial Service Identifier is assigned to these Products and is referenced for activities like invoicing.
Commercial Service Identifiers may have a hierarchy when a super-tending Commercial Service Identifier refers to two or more sub-tended Commercial Services. E.g., When two or more Commercial Service Identifiers each represent a certain location (such as a store of a multi-store retail chain) and there is Commercial Service Identifier that super-tends them together representing the entire chain rather than each individual store. The Seller may invoice the Buyer (the retail chain owner) for each store individually, one sub-tended Commercial Service per invoiced item, or for all locations together, as a single super-tending Commercial Service and a single invoiced item. The Service Access Interface does not include ENNIs as defined in MEF 26.2.
Standards published by Mplify Alliance (formerly MEF Forum) are intended for general distribution to the public and may be downloaded from this site and reproduced without charge. Any reproduction of Mplify documents shall contain the following statement: “Reproduced with permission of Mplify Alliance.” All rights granted to Mplify under applicable copyright laws are expressly reserved. No permission is granted to any recipient or user of Mplify publications to modify any of the information contained therein and Mplify disclaims all responsibility and liability for such modifications.