VEHICLE SEARCH

Configuration 5

Vehicle Search

1. Define Search Views
In this Configuration Step, we define customer-specific search views, which we can use for the vehicle search in the transaction VELO in addition to the VMS standard search views.

2. Define Fields for TREX Download
In this Configuration step, we define the vehicle data that are downloaded in the SAP search engine TREX or another external search engine.
We can enter all fields in the table VLCVEHICLE, including customer-specific fields from Appends.
This search engine provides a quick and adjustable search for vehicles in the transaction VELO in addition to the normal database search.

3. Vehicle Search Areas
 3(1) Define Sharing Level
 3(2) Define Vehicle Search Areas
 3(3) Catagory Rule Maintenance
 3(4) Define Vehicle Categories
 3(5) Assign Roles and Vehicle Categories

 3(1) Define Sharing Level
We use this Configuration step to define the sharing levels that we need for your business processes.
The following is a list of possible sharing level values: Invisible,automatically available, available but only with permission transferrable (in the event that the dealer is already the vehicle owner)

3(2) Define Vehicle Search Areas
In this Configuration step we define the vehicle search areas that we require for your business processes and, where necessary, assign a default sharing level to them.

3(3) Catagory Rule Maintenance
We must only execute this Configuration setting once when implementing VMS, if we want to work with vehicle search areas, sharing levels, and vehicle categories.
When starting the activity, settings will be made in the VSR application (Validation, Substitution, Rules), that are VMS relevant, and in particular relevant for category management.

3(4) Define Vehicle Categories
We use this Configuration step to define Categories for a Vehicle Search. We set vehicle categories during the vehicle search to limit the search results (hit list).These rules relate to the properties of a vehicle found or the properties of the individual searching for the vehicle. If at least one of the rules belonging to this category is true, a category is assigned to the vehicle (and the vehicle appears in the hit list), if the rule is false, a category is not assigned (the vehicle does not appear in the vehicle search hit list). If it is not possible to assign a category, the vehicle is not displayed in the hit list for the vehicle search.

3(5) Assign Roles and Vehicle Categories
We use this Configuration step to assign and prioritize specific combinations of vehicle search area and VMS organization role categories. This determines the sequence for processing categories during the vehicle search. The vehicle search user makes use of the VMS role to name the geographical or organizational location of the vehicle search area where he is searching.