Functional Area Catalogs

Functional areas represent products or functionality of the product.

Each functional area can have a set of rules to define how a catalog should be configured to support the functional area. When a catalog is created and assigned to the functional area, it's validated against the functional area rules. For example, many of the Supply Chain Management applications participate in a new item process which automatically assigns an item being created to the default category in a functional catalog. Also, if no catalog is assigned to the functional area, the functional area is skipped in the automatic assignment process.