Product Catalog Processing (SAP Library

Product Catalog Processing

Use

This business process allows you to maintain product catalogs.

Product flyers and catalogs contain information on articles, including their prices and article numbers. In addition to the printed form, these are often available electronically as CD ROMs, on the Internet or from kiosk systems, for example.

Product catalogs are generally issued periodically in different languages and for different currencies.

Process Flow

You assign the product catalog you wish to create a number and a name and maintain the data relevant to price determination.

You define the variants of the product catalog, specifying the number, language, currency and, if required, the name.

You define how the product catalog is to be structured (the layout) by creating layout areas. A layout area can either contain articles or other layout areas assigned to it.

You can assign multimedia objects (texts, images, or video animation, etc.) via the Document Management System to each layout area or article assigned. You can also enter long texts and headers (titles).

Notes and Remarks

Data will be made available to an interface for further processing (so that print layouts or HTML files can be created).

For further information on product catalog processing, in particular document links, please refer to the Document Management (control data) section of the implementation guide (IMG).