Sometimes customers request a specific vehicle model at the dealer location nearest to
them but the location doesn’t have adequate inventory on hand. You can quickly search for vehicles
that meet the customer’s specification within a specified distance range to see which location can
fulfill the demand. After analyzing the results, you can transfer the inventory. This example
shows how an inventory manager can search for vehicles and transfer them using the Vehicle
Inventory Search framework in Automotive Cloud.
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District sales managers at Neo Motors want to find a list of all blue vehicles for the model
NeoSport. They want to limit the search to 10 kilometers from California so that the transfer
takes minimal time. Finally, they want to transfer the relevant vehicles to the dealer location
that’s nearest to a customer who has expressed interest in a blue NeoSport vehicle of the LS
variant.
| Requirement |
Action |
| Search Criteria |
In the Search Criteria section, a user enters NeoSport as a value
for the field Model Name, and enters Blue as a value for the field
Exterior Color.
For Relative Location, the user selects California, and for Maximum
Distance Range, he selects 10 km.
The user clicks Search.
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| Search Results Display |
In the Search Results section, the user sees a list of ten vehicles with details such as
the vehicle name, dealer name, model year, and the vehicle classification.
The dealer name and vehicle name for each record are displayed as hyperlinks so that users
can click them to view the Account and Vehicle records.
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| Search Results Aggregation |
The user selects Variant Name as the grouping and aggregation
criteria to see the results segmented by vehicle variant such as NeoSport LS and NeoSport
XE. The user can see that there are 6 records for the NeoSport LS group and 4 in the
NeoSport XE group. The user can click the NeoSport LS group to focus on the 6 records.
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| Search Results Sorting |
The user can also sort the results by Model Year so that they can view the most latest
vehicle models first.
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| Search Results Action |
The user selects 2 records out of the 6 filtered results. The user then clicks Transfer
Product and selects Dream Dealers South California as the Destination Location because it’s
nearest to the customer. After the action is complete, the user can view the list of Product
Transfer records along with the serialized product name, destination location, quantity, and
other details.
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To start a new search, the user can click Clear Selection.
