product hierarchy

A product hierarchy that makes complete sense to the business or its database applications can be utter nonsense to customers.

The setting of targets and maxima at various levels in the retailer's product hierarchies and time dimensions; and the subordination of purchassing to these limits, is known as "Commitment control".

The service takes the raw data from the retailers directly, cleans it, formats it, and matches it to the vendor's product hierarchies and sends it to them with daily level frequency or weekly level frequency (depending on the retailer).

One aspect of information architecture is particularly important for ecommerce: how the entire line of product offerings on a site is organized- not only as presented to the customer but as structured as a product hierarchy on the back end and in the rest of the business.

However, although the home page gives the impression that I should be able to readily find what I need either by 10 Constantine: Devilish Details forUSE2002 searching or by following links, due to interactions between an ineffective search facility and a confusing product hierarchy, this is not the case.