Glossary term
What is Product Hierarchy?
Definition
Product hierarchy organises products into structured levels such as categories, subcategories, and families. It improves navigation, searchability, and analytics. PIM systems use hierarchies to ensure consistent classification across channels.
A product hierarchy can express family and variant relationships, not only navigation categories. For example, an autonomous product data operation could take a fixture family with finish and power variants, check parent-child relationships and inherited fields, and prevent a variant from inheriting an incompatible specification.
Product Hierarchy in an autonomous operation
- Step 1:
Input
A fixture family with finish and power variants
- Step 2:
Product Hierarchy
Check parent-child relationships and inherited fields
- Step 3:
Outcome
Prevent a variant from inheriting an incompatible specification
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