Getting Started with High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing

This chapter lists applications administration tasks that are specific to Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing. Use this chapter in combination with Siebel Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide and Siebel Applications Administration Guide. This chapter contains the following topics:

Siebel Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide and Siebel Applications Administration Guide cover the setup tasks that are common to Siebel Enterprise Applications, such as using license keys, defining employees, defining your company’s structure, and adding partner companies. They also provide the information that you need to perform data administration and document administration tasks.

This guide assumes that you have already installed Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing.

About Setting Up Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing

To set up Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing, follow the instructions in the following sections of Siebel Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide:

Setting Up Siebel PRM. This section contains high-level instructions for installing, configuring, and controlling visibility.
Working with New Partners. This section describes how to add partner companies and partner employees. You must add the distributor companies that will use the Partner Portal. You can add distributor company employees, or they can be added by delegated administrators at the distributor company.

Note: When you add partner companies, you must assign someone at the supplier company to be partner manager for each partner company. In Siebel Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide, assigning a partner manager is optional. For Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing, assigning a partner manager is required, if you want submitted design registration to be automatically assigned to the partner manager for the corresponding partner organization.

Administrative Setup Tasks for Siebel High Tech and Industrial Manufacturing

The following information 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. The following table also directs you to documentation that provides information about each task.

When setting up your application, use the following table in combination with Siebel Partner Relationship Management Administration Guide and Siebel Applications Administration Guide.

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 useSiebel 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 configureSiebel 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 checkSiebel 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.