Setup Tasks to Manage Catalogs

Before you create functional area catalogs and associate items with them, you must complete several tasks in the Setup and Maintenance work area> Product Management offering> Catalogs functional area.

Note: Catalogs functional area is shared with other offerings as well. For example, the Manufacturing and Supply Chain Materials Management offering also uses the Catalogs functional area. If you have enabled multiple offerings, then any change in the setup tasks within the Catalogs functional area will reflect across all other offerings that use this task.

Task	Description
Manage Catalog Descriptive Flexfields (optional)	Descriptive flexfields can only have one context available at a single time.
Manage Category Descriptive Flexfields (optional)	Descriptive flexfields can only have one context available at a single time.
Manage Functional Area Catalogs	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 is validated against the functional area rules. For example, many of the Supply Chain Management applications participate in a process that 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. This task is only necessary if catalogs are to be used with other SCM products such as procurement or inventory.