Category Management is yet another important module in Strategic Sourcing. Using Category Management, Buying organizations can group Sourcing materials and services into more manageable and hierarchical groups. Such groups are called “Categories” in MeRLIN. MeRLIN can create and manage such Categories. The categories are specific to an Organization Unit. One will only be able to see the categories belonging to the selected Organization unit.
The Category Management features can be accessed by clicking on the “Category Management” menu in the left-side navigation pane.