When deciding on which type of Search criteria should be represented on your Item search Page you should consider a few things.

Does your customer know your product? Or, do you have to lead them down a path of categories they can understand? Do they reorder parts frequently? Chances are if they reorder your parts with any type of frequency they will know your parts by name.

Is your data meaningful to the outside world? A large part of this project is spent on cleaning up your database, making sure it's both meaningful and still valid. If you find cleaning house is a big undertaking?

PROIV Technology, Inc. has a variety of utilities and services that can help.

A 'Single Search' offers simplicity and reduced usage of real estate. A 'Combined Search', while more complex, will potentially reduce your customer's search time for a product.

•	Single
•	Combined

Examples of the elements you can have the users search from are:

•	Stock Line
•	House Product Line
•	Commodity
•	Group Technology Code
•	Product Code
•	Hazard
•	Item
•	Word in Description