| Name |
Display name of your product category on the Shopping Hub portal. |
| Parent category |
Existing category that you select as the parent of this
category. |
| UNSPSC code |
United Nations Standard Products and Services Code of the
product category. |
| Picture or icon |
Visual representation of the product category. |
| Purchasing Automation |
| Spend categorization |
Products of this category that can be sourced or not
sourced. Select Addressable or
Not Addressable. |
| Product type |
Product that is of the type Good or Service. Based on the
product type, appropriate workflow options are
initiated. |
| Goods receipt required |
Goods receipt that is required or not required. This
field appears only if the product type is set to
Good. |
| Acknowledgment type |
Receipt of confirmation and the type of receipt. The options are Milestones, Service Acknowledgment, or Two Way Match. This field
appears only if the product type is set to Service.
|
| Goods sourcing checkout |
References the record producer used for sourcing requests
of goods from this category. |
| Services sourcing checkout |
References the record producer used for sourcing requests
of services from this category. |
| Contract type |
Contract types that are applicable to this product
category. Related contracts, based on the specified
contract models, are created for any purchase
requisition of a product of this category. |
| Display pricing? |
Determines if pricing is to be displayed in Shopping Hub for supplier products associated to this category. |
| Sourcing time in days |
Number of days that are required to source a product of
this category from the supplier. For details, see Lead time calculations. |
| Supplier onboarding time in days |
Number of days that are required for a new supplier of a
product in this category to onboard. For details, see
Lead time calculations. |
| Purchasing time in days |
Number of days that are required to complete a purchase
order for products in this category. |
| Enterprise Asset Configuration |
| CI class |
Configuration item (CI) class that represents any product
of this category. You can't add the CI class to the model
category later. |
| Asset class |
Asset that represents any product of this category.
Setting the asset class triggers the creation of assets
depending on the model category selected.
If you select Consumable or
Software License, the
CI class field becomes
read-only because consumables and software licenses
don’t create CIs. If you specify a CI class and then
select Consumable or
Software License, the
CI class field is changed to
None automatically.
If you don’t select an asset class, the product category
doesn’t create any asset.
You can select an asset class from these options:
- Asset: An item that can
be tracked individually.
- Consumable: An asset not
tracked individually, such as keyboards.
- Hardware: A physical
piece of computer equipment, such as a laptop or
server.
- Software License: A legal
statement that defines the uses of software, such
as the number of installations that are allowed or
the terms of distribution.
|
| Allow pre-allocation |
Option to determine if you want to track items in this
category as pre-allocated assets. |
| Allow as primary |
Option to determine if assets of this product category
can be primary components of a bundle. |
| Allow in bundle |
Option to determine if assets of this product category
can be components of a bundle. |