An ABC Telecom customer ordered an internet bundle along with a router in their first...

In Salesforce Industries Order Management, the scope of a technical product determines how decomposition looks for existing assets or inventory items. When a customer already owns a device (such as a router) and later orders a new service that can reuse the same hardware, the decomposition engine must search across the customer’s inventory at the account level, not the original order item or the top-level order item.

Public Salesforce Order Management documentation explains that Account Scope is used when the fulfillment system needs to evaluate inventory or assets that the customer already owns—for example, routers, ONTs, set-top boxes, SIM cards, or any CPE device. By setting the technical product to Account Scope, the decomposition engine checks the customer's entire installed base and finds the matching item, allowing it to generate the correct Fulfillment Request Lines (FRLs) without creating duplicates.

Other options do not support the scenario:

Order Item Scope and Top Order Item Scope only look at items within the current order and would not detect previously fulfilled devices.

Downstream Order Item Scope evaluates child order items but still only within that transaction.

Thus, only Account Scope ensures that the decomposition process properly references existing inventory and reuses the router rather than provisioning a new one, which is exactly what the scenario requires.