Products
Products in PeopleSoft Customer Relationship Management (PeopleSoft CRM) are what you sell to customers, for example, physical goods such as electric fans and cars, or packages such as custom built refrigerators.
Product Definitions
PeopleSoft CRM represents products by product definitions. A product definition, keyed by product ID and setID, stores all of the product information that company representatives reference to sell or support products.
A product definition and its associated price setup provide the foundation for many features of PeopleSoft CRM, which include product ordering, catalogs, catalog searches, and dynamic product packages that are accessed from applications such as PeopleSoft Order Capture, PeopleSoft Order Capture Self Service, PeopleSoft Sales, and so forth. You also use products in PeopleSoft Integrated FieldService, PeopleSoft Support, and PeopleSoft HelpDesk for on-site and off-site customer support processing.
Use the Product Definition component to define products. If you implement both PeopleSoft CRM and PeopleSoft Supply Chain Management (PeopleSoft SCM) or another third-party supply chain management system, you can use the Product enterprise integration point (EIP) to synchronize product data between the two systems.
Note: If you integrate between PeopleSoft CRM and a supply chain management system, you should define all product records in the PeopleSoft CRM system to take advantage of functionality, such as dynamic product packages and configured products, that are offered only in PeopleSoft CRM.
Types of Product Definitions
The types of product definitions in PeopleSoft CRM are:
Engagement service
Engagement services are services such as consulting that are priced by PeopleSoft Proposal Management. PeopleSoft CRM integrates with PeopleSoft Proposal Management to exchange quote, status, and pricing information.
See Integrations with PeopleSoft SCM and PeopleSoft Proposal Management.
Standard product
Standard, or standalone, products do not contain components. When you define a product, you select whether it is standalone or contains components (product package).
Package product
Product packages contain more than one component. A product package can include other packages and are priced either at the product level or as the sum of the package components. When you define a product package, you designate the pricing method.
Package products can be configured (lightly configured packages) using the Package Components page.