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About Product Hierarchies

A product hierarchy is a grouping of products. It is a way to track relationships between products, product groups or product classes. A product hierarchy is similar to a family tree on which you have a root parent product, parents and child products, and leaf-level products. Your company can track many product hierarchies for a certain inventory location. An example of one product hierarchy is shown in Figure 4:

Figure 4. Product Hierarchy

In this product hierarchy, Product A is the root parent. Product A is the parent product of Product B and Product C. Product B and Product C are child products of Product A. Product B in turn is the parent product of Product D and Product E. Product D and Product E are child products of Product B. Product D, Product E and Product C are all leaf-level products.

With Siebel Medical Handheld applications, users are able to view detailed inventory and usage information for all products in a product hierarchy in a hierarchical manner. By navigating to the product hierarchy views, users can see aggregated product information on: inventory, current and historical average usage. You can set up what level in the product hierarchy is shown in the Handheld application.