Administrative Setup Tasks for Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing

Table 3-1 lists and describes the administrative setup tasks that are specific to Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing and tasks that might differ from those of the other Siebel Enterprise Applications. Table 3-1 also directs you to documentation that provides information about each task.

When setting up your application, use Table 3-1 in combination with Siebel Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide and Siebel Applications Administration Guide.

Table 3-1 Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing Administrative Tasks

Administrative Task	Description	For More Information
Setting Up Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing	Install, configure, add partner companies and partner employees.	"About Setting Up Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing" Siebel Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide Siebel Applications Administration Guide
Making Products Eligible for Design Registration	Allow employees and partners to register these products.	"Making Products Eligible for Design Registration"
Setting Up Incentives to Register Design Programs	Give distributors a discount on components after they register the design.	"About Setting Up Incentives to Register Design Programs"
Setting Up Email Notification of Approval of Design Registration	Automatically notify distributors when design registration is approved.	"About Setting Up Email Notification of Approval of Design Registration"

Making Products Eligible for Design Registration

When internal salespeople or distributors begin to sell components to OEMs, they register designs using those components.

For salespeople or distributors to be able to register designs that use specific components produced by the supplier, the supplier must make those components eligible for design registration.

To make components eligible for design registration

Navigate to the Administration - Product screen, then the Products view.
Query for the product you want to make eligible and drill down on the product name.
Click the More Info view tab and then select the Design Registration Eligible check box.

About Setting Up Incentives to Register Design Programs

Distributors use Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing to register design programs, so they are protected from competition while they are collaborating with the OEM to get this component designed into the product.

To protect distributors from competition, it is essential to set up a design registration program that gives distributors with registrations financial incentives when they win designs. Typically, suppliers give distributors a discount on components they sell to OEMs for products where their registrations have been approved. Other distributors would not get this discount, so they would not be able to compete with the distributor holding the registration in selling components for these products.

The incentive is usually given in the form of a special pricing authorization that gives the distributor a fixed discount on the book price of the component.

Using Siebel Tools, you can configure Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing to generate a special pricing authorization when the value in the Status field of a design registration record is set to Win. This SPA would give the distributor a set discount from the book price, which the distributor can claim as sales come through.

For more information about special pricing authorizations, see Siebel Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide.

For more information about using Siebel Tools to configure Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing, see Configuring Siebel Business Applications.

About Setting Up Email Notification of Approval of Design Registration

After submitting a design registration, distributors check the Partner Portal to see if it has been approved.

Likewise, after submitting a design opportunity, internal salespeople check Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing to see if it has been approved.

You can set up a workflow so that the product automatically notifies distributors and internal salespeople when the status of a design registration or design opportunity is set to Approved or to Rejected.

For information on creating workflows, see Siebel Business Process Framework: Workflow Guide.