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Administrative Setup Tasks for Life Sciences


Table 7 lists the administrative setup procedures that are specific to Siebel Life Sciences and procedures that might differ from those of the other Siebel Business Applications. The table also directs you to documentation containing information about each task.

When setting up your application, use Table 7 in combination with the main resource, Siebel Applications Administration Guide.

Table 7. Siebel Life Sciences Administration Tasks
Administrative Task
Description
For More Information

Define sales territories

  • Define sales territories and set up the territory assignment process

Siebel Assignment Manager Administration Guide and Siebel Territory Management Guide

Define medical specialties

  • Defining medical specialties
  • Defining account specialties
  • Specifying a contact's primary specialty

Managing Contacts in Life Sciences

Set up bricks

  • Defining bricks
  • Associating a brick with a contact address

Managing Contacts in Life Sciences

Define decision issues

  • Defining decision issues

Managing Contacts in Life Sciences

Managing Products for Life Sciences

Managing Samples

  • Establishing and reconciling initial master inventory
  • Transferring inventory to end users
  • Monitoring samples activities (disbursements, orders, transfers between employees, user inventory counts, and inventory adjustments)
  • Setting up and maintaining a home-office master inventory (optional)
  • Defining lot numbers (optional)
  • Managing electronic signatures
  • Identifying sample locations in the event of recalls
  • Determine the number of open (unreconciled) inventory periods allowed
  • Disabling samples tracking by lot number
  • Allowing sample product reconciliation without lot numbers (optional)

Managing Pharma Samples

Configuring Siebel Life Sciences

Specifying a Competitor

  • Deleting an account
  • Creating or identifying a competitor

Administering and Managing Accounts in Life Sciences

Managing Contacts in Life Sciences

Recording Calls in Pharma

Administer Smart Calls

  • Creating a smart call template and making it available to end users

Creating Smart Calls

Managing Pharma Samples

Managing Accounts Contacts in Life Sciences

  • Activating workflows for accounts contacts
  • Enabling server components for accounts contacts
  • Setting up targeting data for a new period
  • Activating new targeting data
  • Generating column maps for accounts contacts list
  • Creating product data to display in accounts contacts List

Managing Accounts Contacts in Life Sciences

Configuring Time Off Territory

  • Configuring Time Off Territory approval process

Tracking Time Off Territory

Administering MedEd

  • Setting up funds for medical education plans and associating them
  • Creating MedEd master plans
  • Creating MedEd activity templates
  • Customizing the list of available drop-down values and adding literature items to the application
  • Designating contacts as medical education speakers

Managing MedEd Events

Siebel Enterprise Integration Manager Administration Guide

Creating a Clinical Program

  • Creating a protocol
  • Revising protocols
  • Setting up regions (Optional)
  • Defining a subject visit template

Setting Up and Carrying Out a Clinical Trial

Managing Products for Life Sciences

Managing Sites and Clinical Contacts

Managing Sites

  • Creating a protocol site template
  • Creating contact and account templates
  • Maintaining contact and account information
  • Setting up site contracts

Managing Sites and Clinical Contacts

Setting Up Standard Payments

  • Setting up standard payment amounts in subject visit templates
  • Adjusting payment amounts and generating payments for sites

Setting Up and Making Subject Activity Payments

Creating Trip Report Templates

  • Creating trip report templates
  • Approving trip report templates

Administering and Using Clinical Trip Reports

Creating Project Templates

  • Creating project templates

Managing Clinical Projects

Importing Data

  • Importing data with EIM
  • Importing, extracting, and routing syndicated data
  • Charting denormalized syndicated data

Importing Data into Life Sciences

Configuring Siebel Life Sciences

Administering products

  • Creating an external product
  • Creating an internal product or a market
  • Making a product inactive
  • Specifying additional product features
  • Entering information on related products
  • Associating related literature
  • Entering product comparison information
  • Creating a price list
  • Associating a price list with a product
  • Decision issues or product issues

Managing Products for Life Sciences

 

Configuring Siebel Life Sciences

  • Targeting
  • New visit type
  • Charting denormalized syndicated data
  • Modifying business component user properties
  • Configuring the visit generation buttons
  • Changing read-only status of fields
  • MedEd special C++ classes
  • Submitting contact details from third-party applications

Configuring Siebel Life Sciences

Configuring Data for Oracle Pharma Sales Analytics

  • Transactional data requirements
  • Configuring product hierarchies and product costs
  • Configuring Product Catalog and Category Hierarchies
  • Setting Up Sales Objectives
  • Entering call activity data
  • Configuring sales territories for Oracle Pharma Sales Analytics
  • Creating target lists using Oracle Business Intelligence

Configuring Data for Oracle Pharma Sales Analytics

Editing the epharma.cfg

If you are using Oracle Pharma Sales Disconnected Analytics, edit the epharma.cfg file to allow:

  • Integration of Pharma Sales Analytics Home Page with Pharma Sales Disconnected Analytics
  • Importation of target list contacts into Oracle Pharma Sales Disconnected Analytics Client

The Siebel Analytics Installation and Configuration Guide (Integrating Oracle BI Delivers with Oracle Business Intelligence Applications)

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