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Creating or Modifying Accounts

When implementing Consumer Goods application, you may decide to import account-related information from another database in your company, and avoid the need to enter this information manually. However, as you add new customers and as your existing customers add new retail outlets, you may need to create new accounts manually.

Before you create an account, find out whether you already have the account information in your database so that you do not enter information twice. To determine whether the account already exists in your database, query for values such as the company name, contact information, customer number, telephone number, or any other unique identifier.

As an administrator, you can create addresses for accounts. Later, you or end users can associate these addresses with the appropriate accounts. You can also edit existing addresses. Be careful when editing an existing address, because it changes the address for all accounts and contacts that are associated with that address.

For more information on querying your database for accounts, see Fundamentals.

Verifying whether an account exists can be done automatically if deduplication is active. For more information on deduplication, see the Siebel Data Quality Administration Guide.

This task is a step in Process of Managing Accounts.

To create an account

1. Navigate to the Administration - Data screen > Account List view.
2. Create a new record.
3. Drill down on the Account field hyperlink and click the More Info view tab.
4. Complete the necessary fields.

   Some fields are described in the following table.

   Field	Comments
   Account Team	List of employees who are working with this account. This list determines who can access information about the account. The primary team member can be determined by the system administrator or can be whoever created the account record.
   Account Type	The type of account this is, for example, HQ, Distributor, or Retailer. Action: Determines the account Profile form layout. The Profile form can be configured with Siebel Tools. For more information, see Profiling Accounts.
   Address	An account can have multiple addresses. Click the select button to access the Account Addresses dialog box, where you can select an existing address or create a new one. Select the Primary field within the dialog box to specify the primary address. You can edit an existing address from the Account Addresses dialog box. However, changing this address will also change every instance of the address, that is, for all the other accounts and contacts that are associated with it.
   Assignment Area Code	If you use area codes in your account assignment process, enter an area code. The Assignment Area Code value determines the area code that the Territory Assignment program will use to assign this account or subaccount.
   Assignment Country Code	If you use country codes in your account assignment process, enter a country code. The Assignment Country Code value determines the country code that the Territory Assignment program will use to assign this account or subaccount.
   Buying Group	Select this check box if the account serves as a buying group for other accounts. For more information, see About Buying Groups.
   Competitor	Select this check box if the account is a competitor.
   Current Volume	The weekly sales dollar volume of the manufacturer's products within the retail store.
   Disable Cleansing	Select this check box to disable cleansing for the account. For more information, see the Siebel Data Quality Administration Guide.
   Domestic Ultimate DUNS	The D&B D-U-N-S number belonging to the highest-level family member within a specific country.
   DUNS #	The D&B D-U-N-S number for the account.
   Global Ultimate DUNS	The D&B D-U-N-S number belonging to the account's worldwide ultimate parent account.
   Industries	The type of industry the account is involved in; for example, manufacturing or service. You can enter multiple industries in this field.
   Lock Assignment	Provides information for the Territory Assignment program. If you select Lock Assignment, the account team for the account is not be changed automatically by the Territory Assignment program.
   Account Name	Name of the Account.
   No. of Consumers	The approximate number of consumers serviced by the retail outlet.
   No. of Registers	Number of cash registers for checkout at the account.
   Organization	The organization of which the account is a member.
   Parent	The parent account of the selected account. For more information, see Setting Up Account Hierarchies.
   Parent/HQ DUNS	The D&B D-U-N-S number belonging to an account's immediate headquarters or parent account.
   Partner	Select this check box if the account is a partner.
   Potential Volume	The potential weekly sales dollar volume of the manufacturer's products within the retail store.
   Price List	Account specific price list, for example, Consumer Price List or North American Price List.
   Product Differentiator	Determines the types of products that should be available in the account's product catalogs. Action: Drives visibility to account catalogs (including seasonal catalogs, if any) and products available for creating assortment plans. For more information about controlling product distribution to accounts, see About Account Market Segments.
   Site	Description of the physical location or function of the account, such as "headquarters" or "corporate" or "San Francisco."
   Status	The status of the account; for example, Active or Prospect.
   Synonyms	A way to refer to accounts (and their sites) in the way that you prefer. For example, an account named A/B Products, Inc., might have the following synonyms: AB, A/B, and AB Products.
   Visit Frequency	An integer value indicating the number of times per year a sales representative visits the account.
   Weekly ACV	Weekly all-commodity volume.