Life Sciences product catalog structure and classification
Key Takeaway
Every product type is a Life Science Marketable Product record. A child record sits under the parent selected in its "Parent Product" field. Physical, sellable items also get a Product2 record.
The Agentforce Life Sciences product catalog models everything a company discusses, markets, sells, and distributes, from broad markets down to individual SKUs. The catalog has two layers. Life Science Marketable Product records classify items by product type and link them into a parent-child hierarchy. Product2 records represent the physical, sellable items. Record types on Product2 further classify them as order items, promotional items, or samples. The structure matters because it shapes the product guidance delivered during visits and feeds territory and account controls.
The two catalog layers
You create every product type with the Life Science Marketable Product object. Product2 is used only for physical, sellable products. Each Product2 record is associated with a Life Science Marketable Product record of type Product, so a sellable item exists in both layers.
Therapeutic areas and indications are not sellable. They exist in the hierarchy to structure the product guidance delivered during a visit, so they are modeled only as Life Science Marketable Product types, never as Product2 items.