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title: Service catalog execution plans
description: Service catalog enables you to associate execution plans with catalog items.After you submit the execution plan record, you select a catalog item to use the execution plan.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/servicenow-platform/service-catalog/c\_UsingExecutionPlans.html
release: australia
product: Service Catalog
classification: service-catalog
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-03-12"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Execution Plans, Service Catalog request fulfillment, Configuring Service Catalog, Service Catalog, Manage service capabilities, Extend ServiceNow AI Platform capabilities]
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# Service catalog execution plans

Service catalog enables you to associate execution plans with catalog items.

Once you have created the execution plan record, you can associate it with catalog items, create task templates, and associate any catalog item variables to tasks, if required.

You can also:

-   Apply conditions to tasks
-   Create approval tasks, enabling you to step back to a previous step if the approver rejects the request.

**Parent Topic:**[Execution Plans](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/servicenow-platform/service-catalog/c_ExecutionPlans.md)

## Associate execution plan with items

After you submit the execution plan record, you select a catalog item to use the execution plan.

### Before you begin

Role required: admin

### About this task

This association can be done later, but doing it at this stage enables you to access relevant catalog item variables in the execution plan.

### Procedure

1.  Navigate to **All** > **Service Catalog** > **Catalog Definition** > **Maintain Items**.

2.  Select a catalog item.

3.  In the Execution Plan field, select the new execution plan.

4.  Click **Update**.