Defining Internal Products

Use the Product Administration view to enter and update information about your company’s internal products, promotional items, competitive products, markets (therapeutic classes), and compounds under clinical trial.Siebel Life Sciences stores the information entered in this view in the internal product table (S_PROD_INT). For more information, see How Siebel Life Sciences Stores Product Information.

To create a new internal product, you create a new record in the Product Administration view. In creating a new internal product you specify:

• Product categorization settings. Use the values described in the table in the topic Product Categorization Settings to categorize new products, or create market (therapeutic class) records.

• Samples and promotional items settings. Use the values described in the table in the topic About Samples and Promotional Items Settings to define samples and promotional items.

  Note: If you plan on tracking products using lot numbers, create lot numbers for samples. For more information, see Defining Lot Numbers for Samples or Setting Up Lot Numbers for Medical Products.

This task is a step in Process of Managing Products.