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Acquiring Categories

Associating products with categories creates the links that the application needs to enable the allocation process. If you make these associations through another method that is external to the application, you need to perform an Acquire Categories action to establish these links. You must perform this action when the category-product hierarchy changes.

This task is a step in Process of Setting Up Category-Product Hierarchies.

To perform the Acquire Categories action

1. Navigate to the Administration - Sales Volume Planning screen, then the Other Actions view.
2. In the Other Actions form, create a new record.
3. From the Action field drop-down list, select Acquire Categories.
4. Enter text in the Description field (for example, Fall Forecast - Acquire Categories).
5. Click Execute Action.

   In the SVP Action list, the status of Pending appears in the Status field. After the categories are acquired, the Status field changes to Complete and a dialog box appears, confirming that the action was successful.