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Searching and Shopping Tour

Searching and Shopping Tour

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To navigate through this Tutorial, use your mouse,

or your Page Up or Down Keys

With the improved V6.1, Catalog

searching couldn’t be easier!

You must be a registered shopper or orderer to be able to view item prices, build shopping carts, and proceed to final

checkout. You may otherwise “Shop as a Guest” which allows very limited shop and search functions without the

need to register.

If already registered, let’s begin.Enter your User Name and

Password then Login

After login, a DOD Users Policy Page will display. Choosing Exit will advance you to the next screen

but the Policy Page will display upon every subsequent login. In this tutorial, choose “Exit and

do not show policy page again”.

Now logged in, begin an item search by clicking on the

“Catalog Search” button found under the “Shop” tab.

Depending on how you registered, your search might begin on a service or agency-specific landing page. For this Army

registrant example, the search page defaults to the Army Corridor Landing Page with Army Office Supply BPAs

displayed as the starting point for an item search.

Remember, for accurate pricing, if you order for delivery to different parts of the country, you must change your Region/Special Codes to match that area’s code.

Remember, for accurate pricing, if you order for delivery to different parts of the country, you must change your Region/Special Codes to match that area’s code.

Click here if you need to change the Region/Special

Codes for order delivery to a different part of the country.

At this screen, you can change the postal code or add/change a DODAAC or Catalog Access

code

An error message will appear if an improperly

formatted value is entered. Another dialog box will

explain the error.

Once the proper zip code and DODAAC are submitted, they are

posted in the Region/Special Codes line as a reminder.

From this “Landing Page”, use the pull-down menu to view and choose

other corridors for searching or shopping..

Depending on your registration “permissions”, you might not be able to access or order from certain corridors!

Depending on your registration “permissions”, you might not be able to access or order from certain corridors!

Using the pull-down menu, let’s begin a search in “All of DOD

EMALL” using the keyword “bolt”. Click “Search”…

Your search for “bolt” returned 82,339 items. You can sort the results by use of the “Sort By”

drop down menu. Click to view the menu.

The “Sort By” menu allows you to sort by price, supplier name, or

ranking based on keyword used. Let’s sort by “Supplier”…

3M is the first supplier listed after the sort by “Supplier”. You can change the

“Order” of suppliers by using the “Ascending” or “Descending” menu

option.

Note that a sort does not reduce the number of items searched, but merely allows you to list them in a different

order. We will “refine” the search to reduce the findings

in a moment…

Above your search results, DOD EMALL lists the “Most Frequent Matches” within its category database to the word “bolt”. This

feature gives you another option to direct your search to a likely category. Try it. Click on “BOLT,MACHINE”…

The 82,339 items identified as a “bolt” in our “All of DOD EMALL” search have now been reduced

to 20,179 by limiting our “bolt” search to the BOLT,MACHINE category. Let’s narrow the

search even further…(next slide)

Note that every search

creates a search history, the results of which can be

retrieved.

While still in the BOLT,MACHINE category, add the keyword “a” to the

word “bolt” and hit Search…

The search has now been reduced to just 3 items. If your item appears in the results, you can add the desired quantity to a cart or go to

another search.

Let’s search another way since we restricted our search to the “BOLT, MACHINE” category in “All of DOD

EMALL”. Clicking the X removes the category restriction and allows a

search across all categories again…

Let’s search for “bolt machine” again, but this time by adding the keyword “machine” and searching across

all categories within DOD EMALL.

Note the category “BOLT,MACHINE” is

no longer displayed in the Current Search

line.

21,508 items with the keyword “bolt machine” were found in the All of DOD

EMALL corridor. Let’s refine the search further…

Once again, add “a” to the keywords “bolt machine” and

click Search…

Our search results have now been reduced to 324 items. This compares to 3 items found when we restricted the same keyword search to the “BOLT,MACHINE”

category.

Note the new keywords used in the search appear in the Current Search line.

We can view item details now by clicking on the item name,

but let’s do a side-by-side comparison between the first

two items…(next screen)

After checking the boxes of the items to be compared against one

another, click on the “Compare Selected” button…

From this page, we can compare the attributes of these 2 items and add one or both to our cart,

select one or both to compare against other items, view images of the items which display a camera icon, or go to a whole new search. Click on the

camera icon to view the item…

A vendor supplied image of the item is displayed. Click on the X to close the image

window…

If you wish to compare both items against those in another search, check “Select All” or just check the appropriate box or

boxes of those to be compared.

This comparison can be retrieved later by clicking on the “Product Comparisons” tab on

the top task bar. Now, click “Return to Search”…

In searching for an NSN, you may be able to narrow your findings by using the drop down menu and choosing one of the three options. In this case, enter the NSN which equals 7045014839271.

Instead of searching with keywords, you can search by National Stock Number

(NSN) or item (part) number. Be aware that an NSN search in “All of DOD

EMALL” can result in a DLA, GSA, or a commercial NSN.

The NSN search within “All of DOD EMALL” was matched to 24 items. You can sort as before and add to your cart. But before moving on…

(Next slide)

Rolling your cursor over the “Gold Ribbon” icon displays a definition box

which says this NSN is a Commercially Certified NSN. Click

on the icon…

The item, identified by the “Gold Ribbon” icon, represents a

Commercially Certified NSN. BE AWARE that a commercially certified NSN may or may not be identical to a Government certified NSN. If you are required to use a DOD/DLA NSN, do not use a “Gold Ribbon” NSN. Click

on the X to close this window…

We are going to search in a different corridor. Clear this

search…

Once again using the drop down menu, select “NSNs Only”…

Again, heed the NSN Warning statement! If you need a DLA NSN, do not substitute with a commercial NSN or rely solely on

an item or part number match!

Enter NSN 1005014806091 and search for it under the “NSNs Only” corridor.

The NSN was found to be a BOLT,BREECH and available from

DSCC. Like before, click on the item name for a description of the item.

After a review of the item details, this is an

item we want so we are going to add 5 to our cart. Click “Add”…

We can modify this addition to our cart if we want. Note in the “Cart

Summary” line above, the line count is now 1 and the running sum total of

our cart reflects the 5 BOLT,BREECH to be ordered.

Let’s go back to the previous screen.

Click “Back”…

Note that a change in the number ordered can be made from this

screen too. To clear this search, click the “Clear” button…

Let’s try another type of search in “All of DOD EMALL” using the

keywords “bolt machine” again. Click search…

Our search resulted in 21493 items. This time we are going

to refine our search only to those which have an NSN.

Click on the “All NSNs” link…

Our results have been limited to 20389 items matching our keywords and having an NSN in

their description. You can refine the results further by clicking on the Class 2 or Class 9 links or by confining search to the Federal

Catalog System. Click on FCS link…

Under FCS, the results can be under Hardware and Abrasives,

Metalworking Machinery, or Weapons. Click on the “Weapons”

link…

Our results have been narrowed to just three items and were found in

the “Guns, through 30mm” category under “Weapons” under

the Federal Catalog System.

Clear this search..

We are now going to use the other “refine” functions as a tool to narrow our search results. From the main

search page, use the drop-down menu to select “Army Office Supply BPAs”…

Enter the keywords “note pad” and click search…

Our search found 1931 items. We can narrow the results of our search by clicking on a

“General Attribute” icon or by refining our search using UNSPSC, DAYS ARO, PRICE, or to a

specific supplier.

The “General Attribute” icons refine your results by credit card (CC)

acceptance, MILSTRIP (MIL), Small Business Administration approved

(SBA), Javits-Wagner-O’Day (JAWOD) items, items with an

image (Camera), or environmentally friendly (GREEN) products. Aside

from narrowing your search results, their use can help you comply with

certain policies and mandates.

Of the 1931 items, let’s refine our search first to those “note pads” with

environmental or “green” attributes. Rolling your cursor over any of the icons

will momentarily display a definition box for that icon.

Clicking on the green tree icon will automatically refine your search for note pads to only those which are identified as

having “green” attributes.

Search results have now been reduced to 199 items all of which have “green”

attributes. Let’s refine our list down further by using the JWOD icon…

Note that our results now all have a green

tree icon.

We have now narrowed our search results to 30. This represents all note pads which have “green” attributes and meet JWOD

requirements.

Note how the icons, once used, are displayed in a box. This shows what refinements are in effect, and can be clicked on again to remove

that refinement condition.

Our results are now refined by green and JWOD attributes. Let’s refine our results to just those green and JWOD

items supplied by the National Industries for the Blind. Click on the

related supplier link..

Our search results have now been reduced to 18 items all of which

are considered “green” and meet JWOD requirements and are

limited to just those offered by the National Industries for the Blind…

Now that you have seen how the refinements work, the process for

refining by “Days ARO” and “Price” works the same way.

As you refine your search, the default action keeps refinements. If you select “Discard” and then “Search”, all of the

refinements will be lost.

Remember, to remove a single “General Attribute” refinement from the search

results, just click on the respective boxed icon

Refining a search using the UNSPSC is a bit different. First, let’s search using the keyword “VOIP phone”.

Click “Search”…

UNSPSC, using artificial intelligence, attempts to bridge the gap between commercial names and item definitions to those within the Federal Cataloging System.

UNSPSC, using artificial intelligence, attempts to bridge the gap between commercial names and item definitions to those within the Federal Cataloging System.

Our search in “All of DOD EMALL” found 200 items based on the

keywords “VOIP Phone”. To refine using UNSPSC, click on that link…

The search results have been reduced to 117 items. Continue to drill down by clicking on

the desired UNSPSC link. Looking for a VIOP Phone, click on the category which

best matches the item, in this case, “Telecommunications”…

UNSPSC has up to four tiers or layers of information to “drill” down to in refining a search.

UNSPSC has up to four tiers or layers of information to “drill” down to in refining a search.

With our search now reduced to 113 items, drill down to the next

UNSPSC layer, “Communications Devices and Accessories” by

clicking on the link.

Our search results now reduced to 79 items, click on the next

UNSPSC level which describes the item we are searching for, a phone. In this case, a phone is

considered a “Personal Communications Device”.

We have now drilled down to the lowest UNSPSC level which is “IP Phones”.

There are 77 items in this category. We can refine our search from here using

other attributes if desired.

Clicking on the up arrow will take you to the previous level of

refinement. Click on the up arrow…

We have moved up a UNSPSC level with a corresponding increase in

search results. Clicking on the X will remove the entire UNSPSC refinement. Click on the X…

We are now back to where we started from with our original search

in “All of DOD EMALL” using the keywords “VOIP Phone”.

One final note, some searches lead to items which have a

“blue light” icon. Click on the icon for its definition…

The “blue light” icon for this specific item shows there is a discount for quantity orders.

Additional details provided by the supplier might also appear in this

note. Click Close…

We are done with our search. Click on the Cart Summary

to proceed to checkout.

Proceed to checkout or make changes to your

order. See the “Check Out Options” tutorial for more

details.

You have completed the Searching and Shopping Tutorial. You are now ready to login and begin your V6.1 DOD EMALL shopping experience.

Please view other DOD EMALL On-Line Tutorials:

Registration

Contractor Registration

Account Options

Searching and Shopping

Your Shopping Cart

Checkout Options

DOD EMALL Orders

DLA Orders

Stockout Reports

Specialty Store

Power Searching

Material Receipt Acknowledgment (MRA)

UNSPSC (United Nations Standard Products and Service Code)

Pop-ups

Bread Crumbs

NAVFAC Overview

Electronic Task Order (ETO)

Vendor Quote

Contracting Officer Approval Process

If you need assistance please call

DOD EMALL Help DeskDOD EMALL Customer

Service Only: 1-877-DLA-CALL1-877-352-2255 OCONUS Users 1-269-961-7766DSN 661-7766

Email

dod-emallsupport@dlis.dla.mil

Thanks for taking our Tour

And unlocking the

POWER of V6.1!

Thanks for taking our Tour

And unlocking the

POWER of V6.1!