Maintaining Your Category Hierarchy

OpenLink creates a Category Map to assign a category hierarchy structure to the products from your product file.

DemandTec by Acoustic creates a Category Map to assign a category hierarchy structure to the products from your product file. All subsequent loads of product information into the application will use the Category Map. For efficient processing, it is important to get the category hierarchy structure correct with the initial product load.

You can change your category hierarchy structure and reconfigure it differently for optimization purposes. For example, you can make adjustments such as breaking large categories into smaller categories, combining categories, and moving your products into new categories. After the changes, you conduct the product attributing process to prepare the data for modeling.