Search
- Joseph Averkamp
The Search tabs allow you to search for key words or item numbers within a vendor’s catalog. This is broken into two separate tabs: Quick Search and Advanced Search. The Quick Search tab offers a faster, more streamlined method of searching through product catalogs. The Advanced Search tab offers some additional tools that can prove useful to higher end users such as system administrators.
Before searching through a product catalog, it’s a good idea to choose your vendor in the Vendor drop down. You can select more than one vendor if you’d like to compare prices for similar or identical items across more than one vendor catalog, but making at least one choice will improve your search speed.
You can search for one or more key words in the Key Word(s) blank. Make sure there are no spelling errors in the words or phrases you type. If you have too few results, think of synonyms or related terms to enter instead; if you have too many results, be more precise with your search terms or try entering more than one word to search for only those results (for example, instead of searching for “gloves”, you could search for “powderfree latex gloves”).
You can also search by item number in the Item Number(s) blank. You can search for one item number at a time, or you can copy and paste in a list of up to 500 item numbers at a time.
Finally, you can narrow down your search criteria by using the “Purchased in the last” checkbox. This allows you to narrow your search criteria to only items that you or others from your location have purchased in the past 30 to 120 days so you can remain consistent with your purchases.
Note: The “Purchased in the last checkbox” will only see purchases that you have made through Procurement Partners, not purchases made prior to your go-live.
The catalog view will display all information for the products in your catalog. You can sort the results by clicking the header of each column. You can find some additional details by clicking the arrow to the left of each item – an image of the product and a description may be available based on what the vendor offers. The Attributes column will also give some additional information about your products.
The default display will show 10 items per page; you can increase this to 25 or 50 items per page by selecting the relevant option in the items per page dropdown at the bottom of the item list. You can also navigate through the various pages of results with the arrow and page number icons in the bottom left of the catalog view.
To add items to your shopping cart, enter the quantity necessary into the Quantity column, then click the Add Page to Shopping Cart button. You can also add products to existing Recurring Orders by choosing the appropriate selection from the Shopping Cart drop down.