Which manufacturer is on which place - number ? Category Listing

[vitalin58577727]

I have a category page with the product pages (CategoryListing)

And I also have a DataLayer on the side:

digitalData.product = [ 
{
productInfo: {
productID: "10001",
manufacturer: "Samsung",
productName: "Smartphone12"
},
        category: {
    productType: "xx", 
primaryCategory: "xx"
}
}, 
{
productInfo: {
productID: "10002", 
manufacturer: "Apple", 
productName: "SmartphoneXY"
},
        category: {
productType: "xx", 
primaryCategory: "xx"
}
}, 
{
productInfo: {
productID: "10003",
manufacturer: "Nokia",
productName: "SmartphoneXYX"
},
        category: {
productType: "xxx",
primaryCategory: "xxx"
}
}
];

My question;

What is the best way to track which product or manufacturer is in 1st place and which is in 3rd place?

Which manufacturer is on which place(number)? Like Google Postion ;-)

[Asheesh_Pandey · Accepted solution]

First I would ask dev to set product position on the page in dataLayer. Example:

digitalData.product = [{
        productInfo: {
            productID: "10001",
            manufacturer: "Samsung",
            productName: "Smartphone12",
            position = 1
        },
        category: {
            productType: "xx",
            primaryCategory: "xx"
        }
    },
    {
        productInfo: {
            productID: "10002",
            manufacturer: "Apple",
            productName: "SmartphoneXY",
            position = 2
        },
        category: {
            productType: "xx",
            primaryCategory: "xx"
        }
    },
    {
        productInfo: {
            productID: "10003",
            manufacturer: "Nokia",
            productName: "SmartphoneXYX"3
            position = 3
        },
        category: {
            productType: "xxx",
            primaryCategory: "xxx"
        }
    }
];

Second I would set product position in merchandising variable. I had explained it detailed in another thread. See Here Tagging Product Position

Thanks,

Asheesh