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# Preparing for Production

This section describes technical inventory and its role in preparing Order Management for production.

- **[Technical Inventory](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.comms_t_technical_inventory_237816.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Technical Inventory refers to all the items, such as inventory items, in the Technical Catalog.
- **[How Technical Inventory Works](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.comms_t_how_technical_inventory_works_237824.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    You can define commercial and technical product specifications, including cardinality rules, in the Enterprise Product Catalog. CPQ uses these definitions to drive the order capture process that results in an Order with Order Items.
- **[Impact of Technical Inventory on Decomposition](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.comms_t_impact_of_technical_inventory_on_decomposition_237839.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    The decomposition component takes the order (customer request) and computes the technical requests needed to fulfill that order. When doing so, the decomposition will build two images:
- **[Impact of Technical Inventory on Fulfillment](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.comms_t_impact_of_technical_inventory_on_fulfillment_237849.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    The Inventory Items are objects stored in the database and modified during fulfillment. As such, they keep their values in-between orders.
- **[Impact of Technical Inventory on Migration of Existing Assets](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.comms_t_impact_of_technical_inventory_on_migration_of_existing_assets_237853.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    In many cases, Industries Order Management is deployed for customers that already have large databases of existing assets. This deployment requires a process for asset migration.
- **[Managing Technical Inventory](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.comms_t_managing_technical_inventory_237892.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    Industries Order Management automatically creates and manages inventory items based on the actions generated during order decomposition.
- **[Viewing and Updating Technical Inventory from Within Salesforce](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.comms_t_viewingand_updating_technical_inventory_from_within_salesforce_237897.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    In Order Management Plus, Fulfillment Operators and Fulfilment Designers can access, view, and update the technical inventory from within Salesforce to manually fix an account or re-synchronize the technical inventory with the commercial inventory.
- **[Inventory Items Technical Fields](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.comms_t_order_fields_237932.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5)**  
    When an order is submitted from Salesforce to AWS, Apex code analyses what fields need to be sent to AWS. Not all fields are sent. The processing logic is: