The pools differentiate in how they accept items and their hierarchies. The case for the DSE pool you have to send the whole hierarchy of the item on the initial export. There is no way to add the hierarchy afterward like in the IM scenario.

To be able to support this case there are 2 additional hierarchy data providers available, which can be used for all GDSN scenarios.

Complete packaging hierarchy

Note: In the GDSN scenario this data provider makes only sense when sending "Catalog Item Notification" messages to the DSE data pool.

Configuration

To configure the data provider you can look at the "Export data source configuration" on the page "Export templates for DSE".

Mode of operation

When using this data provider for an export template it will automatically export the whole hierarchy where the article is included. If the article is included in more than 1 hierarchy both hierarchies are exported.

This data provider only accepts valid hierarchies. A hierarchy is considered valid if there are no endless loops in it and if there're not more than 10 levels. (An invalid hierarchy is indicated in the packaging hierarchy view with a yellow triangle.) Otherwise this data provider will cancel the export immediately.

Data quality checks

When using a data quality run as a pre-export step, this data provider will re-evaluate the results of the data quality result.

It will only export items with the following criteria:

The item is considered valid from DQ
All items of the hierarchy are considered valid from DQ

All other items and hierarchies are not exported.

Hint: It is best practice to create an assortment with all items which only include the top level of the packaging hierarchies and then export the whole assortment.