(Business processes) Develop sales catalog

Process: Develop sales catalog

Flow

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Objective

Create a hierarchical map of categories as a sales catalog.

Description

Sales catalogs are hierarchical maps of categories that categorizes the products from the master catalog into different views for the customers. The views are generally tailored to better promote products within the sales catalog. Sales catalogs also allow products to appear under multiple categories. During the process of developing sales catalog, the Product Manager decides whether the catalog, category, or product display pages are required, and later provides input to the Store Developer on the creation of the display pages.

Features

Multiple sales catalogs per store.
Reuse categories between sales or master catalog.
Products under multiple categories of sales catalog.
User interface support to build sales catalogs.
User interface support to copy category tree with products to another sales catalog.
Synchronization of products and categories between sales catalog and master catalog.

Edition

Professional, Enterprise, Express

Tasks

Task Description Role

Add category attributes
Add or modify attributes which describe the Category. This includes images, descriptions and other information in different languages associated with the Category.
Product Manager

Add category hierarchy
Add or modify the relationship of a Category within the hierarchy of the Catalog / Taxonomy. A Category can be added as a child Category to the root of the Catalog or as a child of another Category.
Product Manager

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

Create catalog
The Product Manager or Category Manager creates a master catalog or sales catalog. The catalog has attributes such as images and descriptions in multiple languages.
Product Manager

Create category
Create a category within the catalog.
Product Manager

Select category
Select an existing category within a Master Catalog or Sales Catalog to add to the current Sales Catalog.
Product Manager

Business artifacts

Images
Master catalog
Merchandising plan
Online sales catalog

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Task	Description	Role
Add category attributes	Add or modify attributes which describe the Category. This includes images, descriptions and other information in different languages associated with the Category.	Product Manager
Add category hierarchy	Add or modify the relationship of a Category within the hierarchy of the Catalog / Taxonomy. A Category can be added as a child Category to the root of the Catalog or as a child of another Category.	Product Manager
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
Create catalog	The Product Manager or Category Manager creates a master catalog or sales catalog. The catalog has attributes such as images and descriptions in multiple languages.	Product Manager
Create category	Create a category within the catalog.	Product Manager
Select category	Select an existing category within a Master Catalog or Sales Catalog to add to the current Sales Catalog.	Product Manager