Process: Announce product

 

Flow

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Objective

Create an announced product into the master and sales catalogs.

 

Description

Businesses often receive advance information from suppliers or manufacturers on new products being introduced but not yet available for sale. These announced products can be created in the master catalog and categorized into the sales catalog. Further, the product attributes and state may be set to show information such as announcement date and availability date.

Based on the product plan, the customer may provide custom display logic in JSP files to display or not to display announced products, display and allow advanced ordering of the product or other actions as determined by the product plan.

 

Features

Note that the Define display pages subprocess does not apply to the hosting and supply chain business models.

 

Customization

JSP files can contain logic to interpret product states and perform desired behavior, for example display a message that indicates that a product is announced an is not yet available for purchase.

 

Edition

Professional, Enterprise, Express

 

Subprocesses

 

Tasks

Task Description Role
Categorize product

Add or modify the relationship of a product, part, service, kit or bundle under a category of the hierarchy of the catalog or taxonomy.

Product Manager
Set product state

A product can have associated states to indicate its stage in the life cycle: Announced Product, Available Product, Discontinued Product, or Withdrawn Product. The product state can include dates to indicate the next state change

Product Manager

 

Business artifacts

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