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Viewing and Modifying Distribution List Products (End User)

End users can view the products on an account's distribution list, add unauthorized products to a subaccount's distribution list, and modify an account's distribution list.

Account managers can user the Product Distribution list to enter a list of their customers products and to determine which products are added automatically to promotions when the Products button is clicked in the Account Promotions list of the Promotions screen. Account managers can also capture the regular retail shelf price (bench price), which is the non-promoted price at which the customer sells the product.

This task is a step in Process of Managing Product Distribution.

To view an account's distribution list products

1. Navigate to the Accounts screen, then the Accounts List view.
2. Drill down on the Name field hyperlink for an account, and click the Product Distribution view tab.

   The product distribution list for that account appears.

   NOTE:  In the preconfigured Siebel Consumer Goods application, you can add additional products to this account's distribution list from the Product Distribution view.

Use the following procedure to add an unauthorized product to an account's distribution list.

NOTE:  A product that you manually add to a subaccount's distribution list is not affected by key account changes.

To add an unauthorized product to an account's distribution list

1. Navigate to the Accounts screen, then the Accounts List view.
2. Drill down on the Name field hyperlink for an account, and click the Source of Supply view tab.

   The products on the account's distribution list are listed on the Products list.

3. In the Products list, create a new record.
4. Click the select button in the Product field.
5. In the Pick Product dialog box, select a product record to add to the account's distribution list, and click OK.
6. Complete the necessary fields.

   The following table describes some fields.

   Field	Comments
   Dist. Code	Distribution Code. Determines the products that this account receives.
   Account Code	Retailers use this code to identify the product.
   Seq. Code	Sequence Code. Specifies the aisle on which the product appears in the display sequence at the outlet.

Use the following procedure to modify a key account's distribution list.

To modify a key account's distribution list

1. Navigate to the Accounts screen, then the Accounts List view.
2. Select the key account record for the customer's distribution list.
3. Drill down on the Name field hyperlink, and click the Source of Supply view tab.

   The Products and Source of Supply lists appear.

4. Modify the Products list as necessary. You can:
   • Add new products to the Products list.
   • Change the sequence code.
   • Assign the product a status of active or inactive.
   • Change the distribution code.