Vehicle Search

Use

You use the vehicle search (transaction VELO, tab page Find ) to search for vehicles that fulfill certain criteria in the vehicle stock.

Your dealers search in the vehicles that you have assigned to them, for example for a vehicle for which the configuration coincides with the desired configuration of the end customer. If you find a vehicle with the desired configuration, you reserve it for the end customer, create a sales order for this end customer or perform another action. If you do not find a vehicle of the desired configuration, create a new vehicle, provided you have the authorization to do so.

As importer , you use the vehicle search as follows:

  • for your own Workflow : you select, for example, all vehicles with the primary status Vehicle created and the secondary status Sales order created and order them from the manufacturer.

  • for evaluation purposes , for example to get an overview of how many vehicles have been assigned to which dealer, how many vehicles have been reworked in the last week, how many reservations a specific dealer has created in a specific period of time an so on.

Features

  • Apart form the normal database search, you can also use the fast search using an external search machine .

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    You can enhance the scope of functions in the vehicle search with the following BAdIs :

    VLC_MODELLIST_NO_FIL: Adaptation of model list (without filter)

    VLC_VHVIN_PREPRARE: Large and small letters for VIN

    VLC_SEARCH_INTERFACE: Adaptation of search interface

    VLC_SEARCH_PROFILE: Search profile for vehicle search

    VLC_SEARCH_ADAPTION: Vehicle search

    VLC_EXTSE_SEARCH: Vehicle search using external search machine

    VLC_SE_DELTA_LOAD: Delta load to external search machine

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  • If you know the internal or external vehicle number or the vehicle identification number (VIN), you can enter this number and search for a vehicle directly .

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    The internal vehicle number (I) is set as default for the number type. You can use the user parameter VELO_SSEARCH to make settings to use the external vehicle number (E) or the vehicle identification number (V).

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    The vehicle identification number (VIN) has 17 characters. If you work with this number, it usually suffices to enter the last 10 characters since the first seven often indicate the model. The system then searches for *VIN. An error message is displayed if the system finds more than one vehicle.

  • If you do not know a number, you can search for vehicles according to specific criteria . You have the following groups of criteria, so-called search views, at your disposal:

    • Configuration

    • Vehicle history

      You can use this search view to find vehicles for which a specific action was performed in a specific period of time. If this action was not performed in this period of time, the hit list is empty.

      In this view you can, for example, also search using a specific vehicle location. As importer, you can find information on questions such as how many vehicles have been assigned the status In transit today? How many orders did reworker X receive last month?

    • General vehicle data

    • Vehicle status

    • Business partner/addresses

      You can use this search view, for example, if you are implementing a multi-plant scenario and you wish to search by plant. This view can also be used for searching vehicles by specifying additional end customer details as search criteria.

    • Documents ( purchasing documents, transfer posting/rework documents, sales documents, service document s)

    • Search profile management

      If you often search for a specific combination of criteria, you can save your search template to a user-specific search profile and call it at any time. For more information, see: Working with a Search Profile .

    • Customer-specific

      Note Note

      If you use SAP Supply Chain Event Management (SAP SCEM) , you have two more search views at your disposal.

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      If you choose more than one criterion (in different views), the vehicles must fulfill all the given criteria ( AND operation ). The more criteria you choose, the more you limit the possible number of vehicles that can be found.

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      You can replace existing views or create your own ones. To do this, choose Start of the navigation path Vehicle Search Next navigation step Define Search Views End of the navigation path in Customizing for VMS. If your additional search view is not a standard selection screen, you also have to implement BAdI VLC_SEARCH_INTERFACE.

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  • You can search across more than one vehicle model . This is only possible for the search using the configuration if you have assigned the appropriate vehicle models to a common family class (see also: Constructing a Vehicle Configuration ).

You can display the vehicles found, with configuration and vehicle data, in an overview .

  • Provided you have implemented BAdI VLC_PRESELECTION in Customizing under Start of the navigation path Logistics Execution Next navigation step Vehicle Management System (VMS) Next navigation step Business Add-Ins (BAdIs) Next navigation step Vehicle Search Next navigation step Preselection of Vehicle Models End of the navigation path and you are using aclass hierarchy that has been defined and to which all VMS vehicle models have been assigned,you can make a preselection of vehicle models.

  • You can use the Toggle function to switch between the flat ALV vehicle model list and the hierarchical ALV model tree.