This activity is used specify the procurement categories that the requested supplier relates to. The supplier request is a pre-step to a supplier, which is used to facilitate that suppliers are created in a systematic way and to avoid that duplicates or unwanted suppliers are added to the system.
You can add categories from the procurement category assortments valid for the company that the request is added for. The default assortment for the company will be used by default. If there is a Level for Supplier Categorization defined for the assortment and company, only the nodes related to that level in the assortment structure can be added to the supplier request.
As a result of this activity, a procurement category assortment node (category) is added to the supplier request.