Managing Manufacturer Assignments

Managing manufacturer assignments involves adding actual manufacturers to an alias as well as removing them from an alias. Remember that manufacturers assigned to a manufacturer alias are not longer individually available for being retrieved in sharing groups but only with their common alias name.

Assigning Manufacturers

To assign manufacturers to an alias:
  1. In the navigation bar, select Master Catalogs | Manufacturer Aliases.
    This opens the manufacturer alias list. The list displays the available aliases with their assigned manufacturers.
  2. Click the name of the alias you intend to edit.
    This opens the Manufacturer Alias detail view.
  3. Open the Manufacturers tab.
    This displays the list of manufacturers that are assigned to this alias.
  4. Click Assign.
    This opens a list of all available manufacturers.
    Note:
    Manufacturers already assigned to an alias are not listed here.
  5. Select the intended manufacturer(s) and click Assign.
    This adds the selected manufacturer(s) to the current alias. Clicking Back to List returns you to the Manufacturers tab of the alias detail view.

Unassigning Manufacturers

To unassign manufacturers from an alias:
  1. In the navigation bar, select Master Catalogs | Manufacturer Aliases.
    This opens the manufacturer alias list. The list displays the available aliases with their assigned manufacturers.
  2. Click the name of the alias you intend to edit.
    This opens the Manufacturer Alias detail view.
  3. Open the Manufacturers tab.
    This displays the list of manufacturers that are assigned to this alias.
  4. Select the checkbox(es) of the manufacturer(s) to be removed.
  5. Click Unassign, and confirm the operation.
    The selected manufacturers are removed from the manufacturer alias.