Defining a Product

Prerequisites

To define a product, you should have:

  • Product Type should be defined in the application.

  • Product Category should be defined in the application.

Procedure

To define a product:

  1. Click the Menu link in the Application toolbar.
    A list appears.
  2. From the Menu list, select Pricing Management, and then click Product.
    The sub-menu appears.
  3. Click the Add option from the Product sub-menu.

    The Product screen appears. It contains the following sections:

    • Main - Used to specify basic details of the product.

    • Divisions - Used to define the characteristics for a product.

    • Product to Product Relationship - Used to define product to product relationship for a product.

    • Characteristics - Used to define the characteristics for a product.

    The Main section contains the following fields:

    Field Name Field Description Mandatory (Yes or No)
    Product Used to specify the product. Yes
    Description Used to specify the description of a product. Yes
    Status Displays the status of the product.
    Note: Whenever a new product is added, it will have the status as Draft.
    		 Yes
    Product Type Used to indicate the type of a product. Yes
    Product Category Used to indicate the category of a product. Yes
    Start Date Used to specify the date from when the product is effective. Yes
    End Date Used to specify the date till when the product is effective. No
    Compliance Number Used to specify the compliance number received from the legal department. No
    Product Manager To Do Role Used to specify all the To Do raised against this product that are further assigned to this product manager To Do role. No
  4. Enter the required details in the Main section.
    Note:

    You cannot add or edit a product version when the product is in the Retired status.

    The Start Date field is mandatory.

  5. Associate a division with a product, if required.

  6. Define the characteristics for a product, if required.
    Note:

    Ensure that the value is specified for the characteristic type option type in the C1-PRODCH feature configuration.

    Ensure that a valid value is specified for the characteristic type.

  7. Define the price item for a product, if required.
  8. Click Save.
    The product is defined.

Related Topics

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Associating a division with the product Associating a Product with a Division
Defining the product to product relationship Defining a Product to Product Relationship
Defining the characteristics for the product Defining a Characteristics for a Product