Vinimaya SmartSearch™

Exceptionally easy, fast, and controlled shopping experience for all types of employees

The face of Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology™ to employees is SmartSearch™. SmartSearch™ allows employees to easily search and shop directly from all catalog sources as though it were a single, comprehensive private marketplace. It provides an intuitive B2C-like shopping experience combined with powerful productivity tools to support both infrequent and expert purchasers. SmartSearch™ is the capability that will take your e-Procurement system to much higher levels of employee adoption, and therefore to greater spend under management. Vinimaya SmartSearch™ offers:

• Personalized User Interface with capabilities such as a consolidated listing of all authorized purchase categories and suppliers, key word search, aggregated results, results filtering and sorting, drill-down to product details, item compare, and familiar shopping cart actions make it extremely easy for employees to find, evaluate, and select the items they need.
 
• Employee Productivity Features like Favorites, Quick Order lists, direct part # entry, cart save & share, export to excel, direct supplier website access, and eForms provide both casual and “power” users with the tools to quickly identify exactly what they want, and to collaborate with others to make better decisions.
 
• Sourcing Leader Features like search category configuration, predefined packages & kits, promotions, and broadcast messages give procurement professionals the tools to further increase employee productivity while driving standardization and compliance.
 

Seamless integration with existing e-Procurement system(s)

Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology™ easily integrates with your existing e-Procurement system(s) to provide employees with the superior shopping experience delivered by SmartSearch™ without any change to the controls and workflow already established within your system(s).

• Single "Punch-out” or “Roundtrip" Connection with full user authentication provides employees with access to all the capabilities of SmartSearch™ while ensuring they see only appropriate suppliers, items and prices. Items selected using SmartSearch™ are returned to the standard shopping cart within your e-Procurement system(s) where they are then processed through the normal purchase authorization and processing workflow.
 
• Connection Standards such as OCI HTML Forms, cXML, or XML provide easily maintained integration with popular ERP and Best-in-Class e-Procurement systems from leading solution providers like SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Ariba, and others.
 
• As a completely Portable Asset, Vinimaya SmartSearch™ can be easily connected to a new e-Procurement system if your business needs ever change and you have reason to move from one e-Procurement system to another. The user shopping experience and supplier content management processes remain the same, so there is no need to retrain users or re-establish access to supplier data.