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Creating Hospitality Product Categories

In Siebel Hospitality, a product is an item, group of items, service, or group of services that your organization provides during an event. Items may include tables, chairs, and so on. A service may be a task performed by an audiovisual technician.

Products are grouped into parent categories, categories, and subcategories to organize and administer them and for revenue rollup purposes. Using Siebel Hospitality, the administrator can create new categories or add subcategories to existing categories. The administrator creates parent categories using the Administration - Data screen's List of Values (LOV) view. All function space revenues are associated with Parent Categories for revenue rollup purposes.

Siebel Hospitality includes a number of predefined categories that can be used as parent categories when defining categories. Examples of predefined categories are A/V, Banquet, Beverage, Billing, Food, Rental, Sleeping Room, Special, and so on. The Special category allows grouping of unique items for an event, such as fountains, paintings, signboards, and billboards.

For more information about working with LOVs, see Applications Administration Guide. For general information about categories, see Siebel eSales Administration Guide.

Figure 4 shows the relationship between a category, a subcategory, a product, and an asset. For each category, there can be multiple subcategories. For each subcategory, there can be multiple products. For each product, there can be multiple assets.

Figure 4.  Relationship Between a Category, a Subcategory, a Product, and an Asset

NOTE:  Category Administration within Siebel Hospitality is different from Category Administration within the standard Siebel eBusiness Applications.

This task is a step in Process of Setting Up Products and Assets.

To create a parent category

1. From the application-level menu, choose Navigate > Site Map > Administration - Data > List of Values.
2. In the List of Values list, create a new record, complete the fields, and save the record.

   For more information on field values, see Applications Administration Guide.

   Repeat Step 2 for each Parent Category record.

To create a product category

1. From the application-level menu, choose Navigate > Site Map > Category Administration.
2. In the Categories list, create a record.
3. In the More Info form, name the category, select a parent category, and complete the remaining fields.

   Name and Parent Category are both required fields. You may also select the Print Line Items in SOE. This field is not selected by default.

   NOTE:  When the Print Line Items in SOE check box is selected, items in the category are included in the Schedule of Events (SOE) report. The SOE report includes each product, except those products of type Menu and child products of a complex parent product of type Menu.