Searching for Vehicles 

Procedure

Searching for Individual Vehicles

You use this type of search if you are looking for a specific vehicle and you know one of the vehicle numbers (internal or external vehicle number or vehicle identification number). The hit list contains the one vehicle you are looking for.

You can find further information under Vehicle.

  1. Start the Vehicle Manager (transaction VELO).

    2. The Vehicle Manager screen appears and you can see the tab page Find on this screen.

  2. At the top right, choose the number type that you want to use for the search (next to the field Indiv. Vehicle).
  3. Enter the number of the desired vehicle and choose .

The tab page Detail appears and you can view the vehicle data, the customer and end customer data, the configuration and the vehicle history.

Vehicle Search Using Search Criteria

You use this type of search if you are not looking for any specific vehicle. The hit list contains a number of vehicles that correspond to your search criteria.

  1. Start the Vehicle Manager (transaction VELO).

    2. The Vehicle Manager screen appears and you can see the tab page Find on this screen.

    On the left you see the vehicle model that have been assigned to you via one or more vehicle model roles (see also: The Concept of Roles).

  2. Select the vehicle model that you want your search to be based on. You can select a collection of vehicle models that belong together or use to select all the vehicle models.

    3. If the chosen vehicle models have the same family class or of you have only chosen one vehicle model, the search view Configuration is displayed.

    If this is not the case, then the characteristics of the chosen model are not the same and the models cannot be configured together. In this case the search view General Vehicle Data is displayed.

    You can find further information on family classes under Creating Vehicle Configurations.

  3. Choose the desired search criteria. The criteria can belong to different views. The search criteria are additive (AND operation). In other words, the more search criteria you choose, the more restricted the search will be.

    4. If you are unsure which criteria are active and therefore want to choose exclude all the criteria, choose the blank entry in the list in the field Search Profile (no search profile). Then all the search criteria are reset. If the field Search Profile was already empty, choose to reset the search criteria.

  4. Choose .

The search is started. All your chosen search criteria are taken into account irrespective of which search view is currently displayed.

The tab page Overview appears. All the vehicles that correspond to the search criteria are displayed in the hit list.