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What are the characteristics of a best-in-class inventory solution?

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The ability to capture attributes of various telecom service and equipment inventory across an enterprise.
Being able to link service inventory to a contracted rate and track the billed item through rate assurance.
The ability to track inventory for logical, physical, or financial entities within an enterprise.
Use of a natural identifier—like a phone number, circuit ID, port ID, etc.—to preserve the uniqueness of each inventory item.
Ability to capture changes to an inventory item automatically when such changes occur.
Integrating inventory with provisioning and billing to enable automatic cross-process creation and update of items.
The ability to relate one inventory item to another—like a port to a circuit, a toll-free number to its terminating inventory, etc.
Extensive database querying abilities to enable inventory searches via a variety of query criteria.
Flexibility and adaptability to accommodate new services introduced by vendors
Multiple layers of security to ensure that authorized users can view and modify inventory based on their privilege credentials

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