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New search engine in Heiler Business Catalog 5.6 accelerates procurement processes
Thursday 12. March 2009 - Heiler Software is to present Heiler Business Catalog Version 5.6 at the e_procure & supply trade fair.
The key new feature of this version is the new high-performance search engine, which incorporates Heiler “FocusSearch” technology. This enables user-specific adjustments of the match type to refine search queries to varying degrees. Other new features in the catalog solution for buyers include index catalogs, various punch-out solutions and SAP certification for OCI 4.0.
Heiler’s new FocusSearch technology allows individual users to refine their search queries as required. With the three match types “exact match”, “approximate match” and “similar match”, Heiler Software now offers users a novel search approach. This innovation has huge benefits in terms of productivity, in particular for searches in large item and product assortments. According to Heiko Rumpl, Head of Product Management at Heiler Software: “The precision of the search results can be specifically adjusted for each product search at the click of a mouse. This accelerates the procurement process considerably. We’ve also optimized search administration and configuration to give customers more flexibility when it comes to modifying searches to meet specific requirements.”
Browsing external catalogs
With the new Heiler Business Catalog, users can browse internal and external web shop catalogs simultaneously from a central location. As a result, buyers always have access to the latest details of items and prices, as well as complex, configurable products from a “single point of search”. A hit list also gives them direct access to specific items or categories in external web shop catalogs.
OCI 4.0 certification
The latest OCI 4.0 certification allows SAP SRM customers to use the “background search” function. This means that they can browse supplier catalogs in Heiler Business Catalog without exiting the SAP SRM user interface. The set of hits is transferred in the background from the new Heiler Business Catalog to SAP SRM and displayed there.
Sell-side functions
Customer-specific sell-side modules, such as the administration of cost centers, supplier addresses, cost types or user master data, can now be embedded as standard in Heiler Business Catalog. Customer-specific tabs for data relating to the order history or shopping basket enhancements complete the palette of new features in Release 5.6.
Heiler Software will be presenting the enhancements in Business Catalog Version 5.6 at the presentation forum of the e_procure trade fair (at 11 am on May 6). At its dedicated stand, the company will also be presenting the results of its collaboration with its new partner Readsoft.