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Administering Siebel Medical Handheld Applications for Consignment Inventory Management

This topic outlines an example process performed by a Siebel administrator and users. Your company might follow a different process, depending on its business requirements.

A medical device company wants to track a product for managing the consignment inventory. The administrator has already defined the product in the system so needs to define how this product is going to be managed for the consignment inventory. The administrator uses the capture hierarchy command to update the product hierarchy so that sales representatives are able to view hierarchical results when analyzing inventory using the Siebel Handheld application. The administrator then recreates the product hierarchy for each inventory location where these products are being kept and defines consignment levels at that inventory location. For some products, the administrator is required to record inventory that was sent to an inventory location or to a sales representative. The administrator then assigns cycle counts to sales representatives.

Key Tasks in Administering Siebel Medical Handheld Applications

The key tasks in administering Siebel Medical Handheld applications are:

• Capturing product hierarchy:

  About Product Hierarchies

  About Products, Assets, and Inventory Transactions

  About Usage Calculations

• Administering Products for Siebel Medical Handheld Applications
• Managing Inventory Locations with Siebel Medical Handheld Applications
• Re-creating Product Hierarchies in Inventory Locations with Siebel Medical Handheld Applications
• Setting Consignment Levels for Inventory for Siebel Medical Handheld Applications
• Creating Assets for Siebel Medical Handheld Applications
• Managing Inventory Transactions for Siebel Medical Handheld Applications
• Viewing Signatures Captured for Approval-Required Moves from Siebel Medical Handheld Applications
• Assigning Cycle Counts for Siebel Medical Handheld Applications