Create and manage a master catalog by manually entering products and SKUs into the taxonomy.
This process creates or updates a master catalog by manually creating products and SKUs and categorizing them into the previously defined taxonomy. Product information can be from a variety of sources - suppliers, manufacturers, or in-house - each with varying formats and taxonomies. Such information must be normalized, rationalized and cleansed before being entered into WebSphere Commerce.
WebSphere Commerce provides a product management user interface to manually enter the information into the WebSphere Commerce database.
Professional, Business, Express Edition
Task | Description | Role |
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Create part |
A part is a product within the master catalog that may not be sold individually but rather is used to build kits and bundles in the catalog. |
Product Manager |
Create product |
A product is a high level container which defines a set of attributes and its associated possible values. These values describe the SKUs of that particular product. |
Product Manager |
Create service |
A service is a product within the master catalog that the business provides accompanying another product. Examples of services are warranties, gift wrapping, or personalized messages. |
Product Manager |
Create SKU |
A SKU represents a buyable instance of a product and is defined by a particular combination of the product's attribute values. For example, a product may be a knit sweater with the following defining attributes: color ( values are red or blue) and size (values are S, M, or L). There could potentially be 6 SKUs associated with the product, one for each combination of the defining attributes (red-S, red-M, red-L, blue-S, blue-M, blue-L). Each SKU may specify its own attributes such as images, MSRP and descriptions. SKUs may be generated based on possible combinations of the product and its defining attributes. |
Product Manager |
Add attributes |
Add or modify attributes that describe a product, service, part, SKU, kit or bundle. This could include images, additional translated descriptions, manufacturer or supplier data, MSRP, descriptive attribute information, and defining attribute information for products. A combination of the set of defining attribute's values determine the SKUs for a product. |
Product Manager |
Categorize product |
Add or modify the relationship of a product, part, service, kit or bundle under a category of the hierarchy of the catalog or taxonomy. |
Product Manager |
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