Accessory Maintenance in the Product Catalog  

Use

You use this function to maintain and edit accessories in your product catalog. When assigning products to a catalog, the accessories assigned to the product in the material master are transferred automatically with the product to the catalog. However, depending on your catalog type, the accessories are not automatically displayed for the product in the catalog. The catalog type determines whether products are maintained manually or automatically in the catalog.

• If you maintain the products manually in the catalog, you have to select which accessories should be displayed for the product in the catalog.
• If you maintain the products using the automatic product assignment function, all accessories are automatically transferred and displayed for the product in the catalog

 

Prerequisites

You have maintained accessories for products in the product master in your SAP CRM system: SAP Easy Access Menu ® Master Data ® Products ® Maintain Products.

You have selected manual product assignment, automatic product assignment, or both as the product catalog type when creating your catalog.

 

Activities

Automatic Product Maintenance

In this case you assign products to the catalog using product hierarchies. The system automatically takes all accessories maintained for the product in the product master and includes them for the product in the product master. You can display the accessories for the product in the item list.

 

Manual Product Maintenance

In this case you assign products manually to the product catalog. The system does not automatically include and display the accessories maintained for the product. Instead, the system creates a list of the product accessories in the item area, and you have to manually edit this list to include the accessories for this item in the product catalog. The system only includes those accessories which are maintained for the product in the product master. Once you have edited the accessories, you must then activate them and the product in the catalog.