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Introduction
This section provides an overview of basic concepts and architectural features used in Intershop Commerce Management.
Catalogs and Products
This section introduces catalog and product concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to repository management, catalog management, and import & export.
Content Management
This section covers tasks related to creating, managing and sharing master pages, components and other assets that are subject to content management.
Online Marketing
This section introduces online marketing concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to managing promotions and discounts, coupons and gift certificates, affiliate partners and partner programs, and short links.
Orders and Fulfillment
This section introduces the order process and outlines administrative tasks related to managing orders, including order status handling and order export, as well as managing shipping methods and payment methods.
Customer Management
This section outlines concepts and administrative tasks related to managing customer profiles and customer segments. It also covers customer import and export tasks.
Operation and Maintenance
This section gives an overview of typical activities in the context of managing the organization, channels, applications, partners, services and mass-data business operations.

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Catalogs and Products
This section introduces catalog and product concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to repository management, catalog management, and import & export.
Catalog and Product Management: Concepts
Product Lifecycle

Introduction
This section provides an overview of basic concepts and architectural features used in Intershop Commerce Management.
Catalogs and Products
This section introduces catalog and product concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to repository management, catalog management, and import & export.
Content Management
This section covers tasks related to creating, managing and sharing master pages, components and other assets that are subject to content management.
Online Marketing
This section introduces online marketing concepts and outlines administrative tasks related to managing promotions and discounts, coupons and gift certificates, affiliate partners and partner programs, and short links.
Orders and Fulfillment
This section introduces the order process and outlines administrative tasks related to managing orders, including order status handling and order export, as well as managing shipping methods and payment methods.
Customer Management
This section outlines concepts and administrative tasks related to managing customer profiles and customer segments. It also covers customer import and export tasks.
Operation and Maintenance
This section gives an overview of typical activities in the context of managing the organization, channels, applications, partners, services and mass-data business operations.

Product Lifecycle

Two special attributes are available to manage the product lifecycle.

The last order date defines the latest point in time at which a product can be ordered. The product remains visible in the storefront, but cannot be added to the basket anymore.
The end-of-life date has the same effect. It can be used for additional purposes, e.g., to indicate when support for a product expires. Note that the end-of-life date (if defined) has to follow the last order date.

Product lifecycle definitions can be used as advanced search parameters.

Tip: Product bundles (see Product Bundles and Retail Sets) and product variation masters (see Product Variations and Product Variation Types) can inherit the last order date and the end-of-life date from the bundled products or variation products they contain. When using the inheritance mechanism, last order date/end-of-life date of the product bundle or variation master is automatically set to the earliest last order date/end-of-life date set for one of the contained products. Alternatively, the last order date/end-of-life date can be set manually for product bundles or variation masters.