Shopping Category Creation

 First we will have a Top level category (Root Category) called "Browsing Category". Under that, either we may have multiple child Browsing Categories or Shopping Categories. 

First we should create the bottom level category called "Shopping Category"

Responsibility: i Procurement Catalog Administration

Navigation: i Procurement Administration: Home Page > Schema > Item Categories

Manual Creation

Click "Create Category"

 Enter the Category Details

 Note:

1. Category Key: Once we enter the value and save, we can't modify.
2. Category Name and Category Description: We can change the values even after save by clicking "Update" button.
3. Category Key and Category Name values may be same.

Click "Apply"

Confirmation page will come. 

 Search the Category Name and check the newly created Category. 

Now, we have successfully created the Shopping Category (i-Procurement Category)

Auto Creation

Shopping Category will be created automatically with the help of profile option Setup "POR: Autocreate Shopping Category and Mapping = Yes" . Once you create purchasing category in Inventory the same will be created as Shopping category in i-Procurement page.

You can query and check the created categories.