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Overview of Design Registration, Opportunity Management, and Design Win

Selling components to OEMs requires spending a substantial amount of time on design collaboration.

For example, a distributor or internal salesperson may discover that a computer manufacturer is planning to produce a new server that might be able to use one of the chips used by the component supplier. The distributor or salesperson will spend months collaborating with the OEM so that the OEM ultimately selects the supplier's chip for the server.

Distributors have their own sales engineers or work with design houses to develop solutions for the OEM's products. Internal salespeople work with application engineers at the component supplier company.

To protect themselves from competition during this long design period, distributors use Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing to register designs, as follows:

• The distributor or salesperson submits a registration to develop a design with a specific component for a specific product planned by the OEM.
• The component supplier decides whether to approve this registration.
• If the registration is approved, other distributors will not get financial incentives from the component supplier, so they will generally not compete in developing designs for this product that use this component.
• After registration, the distributor can use Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing Partner Portal to manage the opportunity, keeping track of revenues and contacts associated with it and of contract manufacturers who will ultimately build the OEM's product.
• If the distributor does the necessary design work and successfully convinces the OEM to use this component in this product, then the distributor uses Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing to update the status of the design registration to Design Win.

Internal salespeople can also use Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing to manage opportunities.

For more information about how distributors use Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing, see Process of Distributor Selling Components to OEM.

For more information about how internal salespeople use Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing, see Process of Internal Salesperson Selling Components to OEM.