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Adding Products to Catalogs

When simple and complex products have been created, administrators must add catalog visibility to these products. Starting with Siebel Life Sciences version 7.0.3, products, including samples and promotional items, and lot numbers, need to be associated with catalogs to determine drop-down list visibility. Product catalogs can be assigned to groups of people to control which users can access the products. By adding catalog visibility to products, you allow them to be accessed by different groups of people in your company.

You can further subdivide catalogs into product categories. For example, when you create a catalog, you might want to create a Catalog for cancer drugs and further subdivide this into categories with the same active ingredients.

When creating catalogs, you can also provide effective start and end dates for the categories associated with the catalog. This might be useful if you are providing particular products only at particular times in a clinical trial, for example.

To give a product catalog visibility, you must do the following:

• Creating the Product Catalog
• Creating a Product Category
• Adding Products to Catalogs and Categories
• Adding Access Groups to Catalogs and Categories

For more information about product catalogs and categories, see Siebel Order Management Guide.

For more information about access groups, see Siebel Security Guide.