XYZ-CORP is an enterprise and a catalog organization that maintains items, such as processors, motherboards, and chipsets.
It defines the following subcatalog organizations:
Additionally, XYZ-CORP allows XYZ-Retail to extend the catalog by granting XYZ-Retail authority to manage the XYZ-Retail category. XYZ-Retail is responsible for managing the XYZ-Retail category, its subcategories, and the items contained within them.
The following graphic shows the subcatalog example.
In the previous example, XYZ-CORP defines seller entitlements that allow XYZ-Retail to sell items under the Memory and Platform categories. The Memory category contains the XYZ-Vendor category, which is maintained by XYZ-Vendor, and the Perfect subcategory, which is also maintained by XYZ-Vendor. The Platform category contains the Base X and Base Y categories, which are maintained by XYZ-CORP. In the example, XYZ-Retail is entitled to sell items from categories maintained by XYZ-CORP, XYZ-Vendor, and XYZ-Retail.
If the Base X category contains the items BaseX-1 and BaseX-2, the Perfect category contains the items SDRAM and SODIMM, and the Monitor category contains the items LCD Fine and LCD Better, XYZ-Retail can sell items from the categories listed below:
Memory category
Platform category
XYZ-Retail category
The following figure demonstrates the above example.