What is Hierarchy Management?

Hierarchy Management involves organising products into categories, subcategories, and nested structures. In PIM, it ensures clean navigation, filtering, and searchability for both internal teams and customers. A well-managed hierarchy improves catalog clarity and enhances the digital shopping experience.

Hierarchy changes affect inherited requirements and relationships as well as category names. For example, an autonomous product data operation could take a proposal to move a lighting subcategory, check affected products and inherited attribute rules, and apply the approved move without breaking parent-child relationships.