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Requirement to Separate Supplier Categories from Purchasing Functional Area

Hi Everyone,

We need to separate Supplier Products and Services Categories from the Internal Purchasing Categories.

Current Issue:

  • To include a category in the Supplier Products and Services Hierarchy, it must be assigned to the "Purchasing" Functional Area.
  • This causes these "Supplier-only" categories to appear in the Non-Catalog Request search for internal users, which is undesirable.
  • Assigning categories to the "Supplier Products and Services" Functional Area instead does not allow them to be added to the hierarchy.

Questions:

  1. Why does the "Supplier Products and Services" Functional Area not drive the hierarchy setup?
  2. How can we ensure Suppliers see their specific categories while hiding them from internal Requesters, given the shared dependency on the
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