Address Book Category Codes

You use address book category codes to define business attributes for the summary hierarchy For example, regions, territories, and distribution centers. The address book category codes associate the levels of the hierarchy when you generate the summary forecast. Optionally, you can define the category codes with the business unit if the hierarchy is tied to the business unit structure.

This chart shows an example of a workflow for assigning category codes:

For example, Division 1 (in the North American Region) uses business unit code 430 as its address book Sales Territory (03) category code. The Western Distribution Center resides in Division 1. To establish the link to the North American Region, the address book category codes for the Western Distribution Center must include the business unit codes that are defined at each level of the hierarchy. In the address book for Western Distribution Center (M10), the Division 1 business unit code (300) resides in the Sales Territory (03) category code. The North American Region business unit code (430) is assigned to the Region category code (02).

This table illustrates the category codes for the North American Region hierarchy:

Business Unit Description	Business Unit Number	Level of Detail	Address Book	Address Book Category Code
Corporate Business Unit	200	1	200
North American Region	430	2	1234
European Region	400	2	4567
Division 1	300	3	5678	Territory (03): 430
Division 5	340	3	8765	Territory (03): 430
Northern Distribution Region	M20	4	6066	Territory (03): 300 Region (04): 430
Western Distribution Region	M10	4	6058	Territory (03): 300 Region (04): 430
Central Distribution Region	M40	4	6082	Territory (03): 340 Region (04): 430
Eastern Distribution Region	M30	4	6074	Territory (03): 340 Region (04): 430

At each level in the hierarchy, the first category code defines the highest level in the hierarchy. The second category code defines the second higher level, and so on.