Search Engine Features

Users want to shop quickly and easily. They want to save time when searching for articles or services, especially in a professional environment.

The Cloud Search Engine offers best-in-class intelligence and the backbone to the UI5 of the SAP environment.

A catalog interface specially developed by BeNeering and certified by SAP guides the user intuitively through the catalog search. The user quickly finds his way around, as the display and handling are based on the familiar functionality of prominent web stores. The user searches all procurement channels simultaneously across all catalogs. Catalog items as well as web forms or price alerts can easily be added to the shopping cart.

Thanks to the embedded integration into the SAP SRM or SAP S/4HANA system, there is no need for a “punch-out” in the supplier’s catalog.

Other modules and purchasing solutions such as SAP MM, SAP PM, Oracle iProcurement, etc. can also be connected to the catalog system via the interface.

Connecting a cloud search engine to your own ERP system greatly improves usability, as goods and services from different purchasing channels can be ordered within one interface.

Price inquiries and web forms are also taken into account as search results.

With content enrichment, boosting words, product group classification and a learning cloud search engine, we are in the process of developing artificial intelligence for our services.

An AI-supported, high-performance search engine based on Apache SOLR LTR works in the background and is tailored to the customer’s needs.

The article data is indexed by the search engine and remains in the cloud. The search engine learns from user behavior and takes items that have already been ordered into account.

Thanks to this architecture and the use of compressed file formats, the search provides users with considerable speed advantages with response times of less than 100 milliseconds.

The performance of the system plays a significant role, especially when integrating large web stores and marketplaces with several 100,000 or even millions of article entries.

• Search field supports auto-complete function
• Real-time catalog filter (faceted search)
• Boosting of the core assortment, selected suppliers, categories, etc. in the search results list; can be configured individually for different organizations
• Fuzzy logic with extended parameterization
• Integration of web forms in the search results list, making it much easier to order services and configurable products
• Integration of preferred supplier lists
• Support of product relations
• Support of price scales
• Support for images and document attachments
• Connection of Punch-Out webshops
• Multi-language concept
• Customer-specific configuration of the search engine
• Users can autonomously manage favorites in the interface
• Users can organize their own shopping cart templates in the interface