Catalog

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It is very important to show the right products in your webstore when it comes to the catalog. As Sana Commerce Cloud is the ERP integrated e-commerce solution, all materials and material information, like title, pricing and stock is stored in SAP and is simply used by Sana.

To create a catalog for a webstore, Sana Commerce Cloud uses materials from SAP.

To manage materials in SAP, use the following transaction codes:

• Create Material (MM01)

• Change Material (MM02)

• Display Material (MM03)

Using the Product hierarchy field in the material master data, you can assign a material to the appropriate product hierarchy. Product hierarchies are used to group materials that share certain characteristics, for example electronics or women's clothing. Product hierarchies can be imported from SAP to Sana, to automatically build the main menu of your webstore with the catalog.

For more information, see Product Hierarchy.

Material Visibility

You might have thousands or even tens of thousands of materials in your SAP system, and there is a big chance that you do not want to show all of them in your webstore.

Using the Visibility checkbox in the Webshop Catalog Overview window, you can show and hide any material in your webstore.

For example, you sell some seasonal products or themed products that you sell only in anticipation of certain holidays, such as Christmas. In order not to forget to change the visibility of such material on a certain date, you can set the visibility by date in the Visible From and Visible To fields.

You can manage material visibility by date in the Webstore Catalog Overview window.

If the dates when a material should be visible in the webstore are set in SAP ECC, these dates are also shown on the product pages in Sana Admin.

If the material expires, it becomes invisible and is not shown in the webstore, but it is still available in Sana Admin, and a webstore administrator can manage the material details.

If you change the material visibility in ERP, update the product index to check whether some material data has been modified in the ERP system and synchronize the changes with Sana.

You can access Webstore Catalog Overview either from the main menu of the Sana Commerce Cloud add-on (/n/sanaecom/webstore), or by calling the transaction /n/sanaecom/catover.

In the Webstore Catalog Overview window, you can see an overview of all material prices, stock, units of measure, last modified date of a material, materials orderability and visibility.

For more information, see Webstore Catalog Overview.

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