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Siebel Medical Handheld Guide > Application Administration > Administering Siebel Medical Handheld > About Products, Assets and Inventory TransactionsAssets are physical instances of a product. Depending on how you administer a product, Medical Handheld keeps track of assets differently. For example, products that are not serialized, not unique, and are not tracked by lot number are simply tracked by product. When counting these products, assets are not created in the assets table nor associated to a product during a cycle count. On the other hand, products that are serialized require creation (if there are no asset records) of asset records in the assets table and association to this product during a cycle count. During an inventory count, transactions are created to adjust inventory information. You would need to determine how your company would like to track products for consignment inventory. Depending on how you define your products, the handheld generates transactions automatically to create an asset record in the assets table, associate these assets to the product, or adjust inventory transactions to update inventory information when a cycle count is performed. These transactions update inventory information on the server during sync. Table 15 summarizes how cycle count records are generated by the handheld when a sales representative performs a cycle count.
NOTE: The main difference between Serialized and Unique products is how uniqueness of the assets is defined. Serialized products have more business rules associated with them. Unique products are like Serialized products but do not have business rules associated with them, allowing a lot more flexibility in choosing which fields define uniqueness of an asset. For more information on how products are managed, see Siebel Life Sciences Guide. |
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