Improved matching with transliteration support in Business Partner Lookup

Release date: 2025-06-04, related to idea in our Idea Portal: nan.

Release details

Overview

We have enhanced the Business Partner Lookup service by introducing support for transliteration-based matching. This new feature improves accuracy when matching business partner names, cities, or streets written in different alphabets — such as Latin and Cyrillic — by applying a transliteration step before similarity scoring is calculated.

Details

When the feature toggle ENABLE_TRANSLITERATION_MATCHING is enabled, the lookup service will:

• Automatically detect if the input and reference data use different alphabets.
• Apply transliteration to normalize both values into a common character set.
• Calculate the matching score based on the transliterated (normalized) form.

Example Use Case

• Input name: STRIMON SPA AD (Latin alphabet)
• Reference name: СТРИМОН СПА - АД (Cyrillic alphabet)

→ Now correctly matched with a high score thanks to transliteration.

Availability

This feature is available behind a feature toggle (ENABLE_TRANSLITERATION_MATCHING) and can be activated upon request.