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Set up engineering product categories
Activity Flow

You can set up categories and have these automatically assigned to engineering products, product versions or variants on release.

Product manager Product manager Start Start Set up category hierarchy Set up category hierarchy You can create a hierarchy of product categories and sub-categories to organize matching types and ease navigation through your range of products. For more information, refer to Create a hierarchy of product classification .Go to link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/supply-chain/pim/tasks/create-hierarchy-product-classification - Change - Remove Define categories for engineering product type Define categories for engineering product type For each engineering product type, you can define one or more category hierarchies and categories to which a product belongs. If you release a product with the engineering product type, the product, product version, or product variant is assigned to these categories. Procedure 1. Go to Product engineering > Setup > Engineering product type. 2. In the left pane, select the desired engineering product type. 3. In the Category section, click Add. 4. In the Category hierarchy field, enter or select a value. 5. In the Category field, enter or select a value. 6. Close the page. End End

Activities

Name Responsible Description

Set up category hierarchy

Product manager

You can create a hierarchy of product categories and sub-categories to organize matching types and ease navigation through your range of products.

For more information, refer to Create a hierarchy of product classification .
Go to link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/supply-chain/pim/tasks/create-hierarchy-product-classification - Change - Remove

Define categories for engineering product type

Product manager

 		For each engineering product type, you can define one or more category hierarchies and categories to which a product belongs. If you release a product with the engineering product type, the product, product version, or product variant is assigned to these categories.

Activities

Name Responsible Description

Set up category hierarchy

Product manager

You can create a hierarchy of product categories and sub-categories to organize matching types and ease navigation through your range of products.

For more information, refer to Create a hierarchy of product classification .
Go to link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/unified-operations/supply-chain/pim/tasks/create-hierarchy-product-classification - Change - Remove

Define categories for engineering product type

Product manager

 		For each engineering product type, you can define one or more category hierarchies and categories to which a product belongs. If you release a product with the engineering product type, the product, product version, or product variant is assigned to these categories.

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