Task plan templates driven order fulfillment

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    Summary of Task plan templates driven order fulfillment

    Task plan templates in ServiceNow provide a no-code solution to define and orchestrate fulfillment journeys for products by standardizing the creation and management of tasks and their dependencies. This approach enables customers to automate order fulfillment processes through reusable templates that automatically generate tasks based on product specifications and domain order actions. It serves as an alternative to Flow Designer, offering more configuration options for product fulfillment orchestration.

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    Key Features

    • No-code task orchestration: Allows non-technical users to define fulfillment journeys and manage task dependencies without developer involvement.
    • Task plan templates: Act as containers grouping template items (tasks, child cases, or case tasks) that represent the tasks to be created during fulfillment.
    • Configurable conditions: Templates and template items can have conditions set to control when they apply, enabling dynamic task creation based on specific criteria.
    • Task dependencies: Predecessor and successor relationships can be defined to control task sequencing, ensuring tasks start at the appropriate times and reducing ambiguity for agents.
    • Automatic application: When a domain order is created, the system automatically searches for and applies the matching task plan template based on the order's specification and action.
    • Publishing workflow: Templates remain editable in a Draft state and can be published to make them active and applicable to cases and case types.

    Benefits

    • Empowers non-technical users to define and manage fulfillment processes independently.
    • Reduces IT dependency and accelerates the deployment of new product offerings.
    • Standardizes and simplifies task creation and orchestration across product fulfillment journeys.
    • Improves task sequencing and clarity for agents through managed dependencies.

    Practical Use for ServiceNow Customers

    By leveraging task plan templates, ServiceNow customers can streamline fulfillment workflows, ensuring consistent task generation and execution for product orders without requiring complex development. Customers can create templates tailored to product specifications, define task hierarchies and dependencies, and deploy these templates easily to automate order fulfillment processes. This approach enables faster time-to-market for new offerings and reduces operational overhead by empowering business users to manage fulfillment logic.

    Use the task plan template to define tasks and their dependencies that are needed to orchestrate the fulfillment journey for a product to standardize fulfillment processes across products.

    A no-code approach in ServiceNow® that allows you to create task orchestration workflows using task plan templates. It as an alternative to flow designer, giving more options for implementing product configurations.

    For more information about Flow actions for fulfillment subflow definition, see Flow actions for fulfillment subflow definition.

    When the template is configured for a specification, the domain order creation automatically searches for a matching template, based on the task's specification and action of domain order. When a template match is found, the template is applied to generate the order tasks under the domain order. To learn more about task plan template, see Task plan templates.

    Benefits of task plan template

    It enables non-technical users to do the following:
    • Define fulfillment journeys.
    • Manage task dependencies for simple task creation without developer involvement.
    • Reduce IT dependency.
    • Accelerate deployment of new offerings.

    Create a task plan template

    You can create a task plan template by following these steps.

    Step Explanation
    Create a task plan template. Create the template and set the conditions as to when the template applies.
    • The template functions as a container or group of template items.
    • The template identifies a plan to apply the associated template items.
    Configure task plan template To add conditions to a template item that determines when a template item is applicable.
    Create one or more template items. Create the template items to include in the task plan template. These items can be tasks, child cases, or child case tasks.
    • Template items are the tasks or records that are to be created when the template is applied.
    • Template items can be used to define a hierarchy of parent and child entities of any task type.
    Create conditions for template items. Set conditions as needed for each of the template items that identifies when a template item should be created.
    Task dependencies for task plan templates It provides controlled sequencing within the generated records from the template items in the Task Plan Template Dependency table. By defining predecessor and successor relationships, the tasks can start at correct time reducing ambiguity for agents.
    Publish the task plan template.

    While in the Draft state, you can make changes to the template, template items, and template item conditions.

    It allows to publish if the same condition template is not available.

    Publish the task plan template to apply it to cases and case types.

    To publish a task plan template, select Publish on the Task Plan Template form.