Traditional category management is difficult to implement in today's dynamic market and company environment. Whether ECLASS or own product groups ... the rigid structures are unfavorable. Let us assume, that "perfect order" prevails in the ERP system. How long does it take for this order to result in disorder, when hundreds of people manually assign items to categories? You know the answer. But Category management is strategic - and important for every company. A dilemma, that ACM - adaptive category management solves elegantly with an adaptive Data Lake.