Does ECC 6.0 Provide a Search-as-you-type Enhancement for Sold-To Party Field?
In our quest to continually simplify the creation of sales orders, I would like to know if SAP has provided any way to simplify the search and entry of the customer sold-to or ship-to party. What I am looking for is a way to enter the customer's name (or other customer search criteria such as city) in a single field and have it search-as-you-type. This is also known as instant search, auto-complete and auto-suggestion.
We would like to eliminate the clicks it takes to use the standard F4 search help.
One of our internal developers has created a web-based (.NET) application that brings in SAP data for writing sales orders for a specific segment of our business. This tool allows you to find the ship-to party by typing in the customer's state, city, zip, address or name in the Ship-To field. The instant search feature narrow's the list down as you type. What he has done is written SQL to concatenate the customer name, customer number and address information, and then provided a search-as-you-type feature on top of this.
Fictious Example of concatenated data (State, City, Customer Name, Address, Zip, SAP Customer Number):
WA Seattle, Home Depot, 11616 Aurora Ave N, 98133, 18394978
Typing any of the above information in the field will search for matches and bring back results as you type.
I would like to know if ECC 6.0 has any similar feature that can be used in VA01 to accomplish the same thing.
Thank you.
Rob Scofield
I don't have access to the code our developer used but again, I am referring to a .NET browser-based application. We extract a subset of SAP data using Attunity (say, every hour) and the SAP data is stored in a separate SQL Server database. This database is used by a few browser-based applications we have developed. For example, we have an application that allows external customers or internal employees the ability to look-up the status of an order. The first thing you enter is the customer. In some cases, this may be the Ship-To. In other cases, the Sold-To. The user can simply enter some part of the customer and records are searched for a match, as you type. In our case, the lookup is occurring in SQL Server, not directly in SAP. The developer took a simple approach of using some SQL query magic (it may be in a SQL Server Stored Procedure), to concatenate the relevant customer information that most people use to lookup a customer - Customer Name, Address, Customer Number. So as you type, this entire concatenated string is searched and the list of potential "hits" is narrowed as you type.
The paradigm is similar to Google's Search as you type (SayT), which you can read about here:
http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/11/3152186/google-search-as-you-type-instant-results-merchants
http://code.google.com/p/search-as-you-type/
Or auto-complete: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/106230
This is nothing new in the web commerce world.
I was told by an SAP rep that there might be an enhancement in SAP ECC (SAPGUI Desktop) that could do something similar. However, I never heard back from him and was wondering if anyone else had heard of something.
This is another example of how it seems SAP has fallen behind in their UI and search capabilities; and they need to catch-up. For those of us that have used SAP for many years, F4 seems straight forward and we sometimes don't understand why so many users don't also find it simple. The answer is, other vendors have made it more simple and with the consumerization of apps, SAP needs to get there.
Rob
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