Use this activity to establish the procurement categories (assortment nodes) that the supplier is capable of providing.
You have the option to assign multiple categories to a supplier and even allocate distinct categories across various domains (such as global, per country, or per site), especially if the supplier delivers varying types of products to different companies or sites.
You can either decide to add the categories to the supplier, or vice versa, search for a category to see, add or remove connected suppliers to that category.
When adding the first category for a specific domain, that category will be set to default for the supplier and domain. It is possible to remove or change the default category for a supplier and domain. The default will be used in the categorization of spend transactions or products in self-service procurement.
As a result of this activity the categories are linked to the supplier, serving strategic procurement objectives and will be used in the categorization of transactions within the spend analysis functionality.