Defining External Products

Use the External Products view to manage information about competitive and complementary products and to associate those products with the companies that produce them.

Siebel Life Sciences stores the information you enter in the External Products view in the external product table (S_PROD_EXT). In addition, it also displays this information in the Competitor Comparison Administration view. For more information on the internal and external product tables, see How Siebel Life Sciences Stores Product Information.

Note: Make sure that the product information you specify in the External Products view matches exactly the information specified for the same product in the Products view. For more information, see Defining Internal Products.

This task is a step in Process of Managing Products.

To create an external product

1. Navigate to the Administration - Product screen, then the External Products view.

2. In the External Products list, create a new record and complete the necessary fields.

   Some fields are described in the following table.

   Field	Comments
   Competitor	Indicates whether or not the company specified in the Vendor field is a competitor. For more information on how to create account records, see Specifying a Competitor.
   Product	If the product is also entered in the internal product table, the name entered here must match the name entered in the Product Administration view. For more information, see Defining Internal Products.
   Product Type	Specifies whether the product is competitive or complementary.
   Vendor	The manufacturer of this product.