A hosted supplier catalog is used to enable employees to purchase products and services from a suppliers assortment without having to create all part number and pricing information in the system. To enable the users to browse a structure of categories (assortment nodes) in the employee self-service portal, the lines from the hosted catalogs needs to be mapped to the assortment used for self-service.
Use this activity to manually enter the category assortment used in self-service and trigger an automatic mapping of the lines according to the definition of the category assortment dimensions.
You must have a hosted supplier catalog revision in status Planned or Approved.
Each line of the hosted supplier catalog will be categorized according to the category assortment definition. This mapping will then be used in the self-service portal to browse the list of products using a the structure of categories.