Siebel Order Management Guide


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Overview of Order Management

About Order Management

The Order Management Life Cycle

Scenario for Order Management

Setup and Use of Siebel Order Management

Basic Concepts of Order Management

Basic Concepts for Asset-Based Ordering

Customer Profile in Asset-Based Ordering

Quote and Order Concepts in Asset-Based Ordering

Workflows and Business Services for Asset-Based Ordering


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Setting Up Order Management

Process of Setting Up Order Management

Setting Up Accounts and Contacts for Order Management

Setting Up Salespeople

Setting Up Products, Pricing, and Catalogs

Setting Up Shipping Information

Setting Up Tax Calculations

Setting Up Payment Terms and Other Payment Factors

Setting Up Inventory Locations

Setting Up Integration and Activating Workflows

Setting Up Order Types

Defining Order Statuses

Creating Product Selection Templates

Setting Up Activity Plan Templates

Letting Users Create Quotes and Orders from Accounts and Contacts

Setting Up Availability to Promise

Customizing the Sales, Quote, and Order Processes

Setting Up Asset-Based Ordering

Lists of Values to Update for Order Management

Adding or Changing the Display Value of Order Types


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Preparing for Integration

Integration Strategy for Order Management

ASIs for Order Management

Setting Up Quote and Order ASIs

Setting Up Web Services for Quote and Order ASIs

Activating Workflows for Quotes and Orders

Process of Setting Up Third-Party Product Availability Applications

Checking the Availability Fulfillment Methods

Setting the ATP Action Parameter in Quote and Order Business Components Properties

Verifying the External ATP Check Business Service User Properties

Configuring Web Services

Using the ATP ASI Testing Script

Preventing Rollup of Availability Information

Extending the ASI

Extending Returned Data

Customizing UI Terms

Process of Setting Up Purchase Order Credit Checking Applications

Verifying the External Credit Check ASI User Properties

Configuring Web Services for Purchase Order Credit Checking Applications

Activating the Workflow Processes for Purchase Order Credit Checking Applications

Modifying User Properties for Purchase Order Credit Checking Integration

Turning Off Credit Checking

Customizing When Credit Checks Are Performed

Changing the Credit Auto-Approval Limit For Accounts

Skipping Credit Checks For an Account

Restricting Which Employees Can Administer Credit Checking

Extending the ASI for Credit Check Interface Request

ASI Workflows for Quotes and Orders


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Creating a Quote or Order

Process of Creating a Quote

Starting a Quote

Using Auto Quote from an Opportunity

Performing Common Tasks for Creating Quotes and Orders

Verifying the Quote

Process of Creating an Order

Starting an Order

Performing Common Tasks for Creating Quotes and Orders

Submitting an Order

Common Tasks for Creating Quotes and Orders

Adding Products to a Quote or Order

Working With Line Items of Quotes and Orders

Viewing and Recalculating Prices

Applying a Manual Discount

Adding Shipping Information

Calculating Shipping Charges

Calculating Taxes

Checking Availability to Promise (ATP)

Working with Payment Information for Quotes or Orders


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Working with Quotes

About Quotes

Verifying a Quote

Updating an Opportunity from a Quote

Including Quote Items in a Forecast

Accessing An Existing Quote

Revising a Quote

Converting a Quote to an Order

Converting a Quote to an Agreement

Displaying Charts to Analyze Quotes


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Working with Orders

About Orders

Accessing An Existing Order

Submitting an Order

Associating an Activity Plan or Activity with an Order

Approving an Order

Monitoring an Order

Revising an Order

Processing a Return


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Data Validation for Order Management

About Data Validation Manager

Process of Implementing Data Validation Processing

Process of Administering Data Validation Rules

Defining a Data Validation Rule Set

Defining Rule Set Arguments

Defining Validation Rules

Defining Validation Rule Actions

Activating a Data Validation Rule Set

Process of Invoking the Data Validation Manager Business Service

Invoking Data Validation Manager from a Runtime Event

Invoking Data Validation Manager from a Workflow

Viewing a Validation History


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Using Asset-Based Ordering

About Asset-Based Ordering

Scenario for Asset-Based Ordering

Creating a Quote

Creating a Quote That Modifies an Asset

Ungrouping Quote Line Items (End User)

Editing Quote Line Items

Updating an Opportunity From a Quote

Converting Quotes to Orders

Editing Order Line Items

Submitting an Order

Revising a Submitted Order

Creating a Follow-On Order

Modifying the Service Profile

Deactivating an Installed Asset

Suspending and Resuming Service


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Workflows for Asset-Based Ordering

About Workflows for Asset-Based Ordering

Workflow to Ungroup Quote Line Items

Workflow to Ungroup Order Line Items

Workflow to Edit Quote Line Items

Workflow to Convert a Quote to an Order

Workflow to Edit Order Line Items

Workflow to Submit an Order

Workflow to Apply an Order to the Service Profile

Workflows to Modify the Service Profile

Workflows to Redisplay the Service Profile

Workflows to Modify a Service Item

Workflows to Disconnect a Service Item

Workflows to Suspend or Resume Service Items


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Business Service Methods Reference

About Business Services for Order Management

Product Manipulation Toolkit Business Service Methods

User Properties used by PMT Methods

Delta Method

Apply Method

Trim Method

Explode Method

Explode Siebel Object Method

Find Orders Method

Logical Delete Method

Assign New Service IDs Method

Convert Product Instance Method

Get Instance Method

Get Profile Attribute Method

Is Fully Exploded Method

Is Module Licensed Method

Merge Method

Quote To Revenue Method

Reconfigure Product Instance Method

Reset Method

Retrieve Next Object From List Method

Set Action Method

Set Exception Error Message Method

Set Field Value Method

Set Multiple Field Values Method

Set Output Header Method

Set Product Instance Method

Set Profile Attribute Method

Synchronize Method

Update Multi Object List Method

Update Order Line Item Completed Flag Method

Get Cfg Button Click Information Method

Refresh Business Component Method

Invoke BC Method

Iterate Process For Selected Rows Method

Get Selected Row Count Method

Get First Selected Row Values Method

Ungroup Method

Order Entry Toolkit Business Service Methods

CreateAccount Method

CreateOrder Method

GetBCCount Method

GotoView Method

SelectPrimary Method

SetLIAccounts Method

SubmitOrder Method

ValidatePayment Method

ValidateQuote Method

ViewCart Method

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Siebel Order Management Guide