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Continuing Mapping Exercise

Today we will identify our data source, and begin mapping the source data to the target data.  We identified our target format and placed that in the paper map last time.  If you didn’t read that post yet, you might want to review it quickly before continuing.  (read part One)

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This is a mapping exercise that will go through the process of creating a paper map, or mapping document.  We will start with an empty paper map that you can get here.  And we will end with a completed paper map document that documents what data from the source goes into what fields on the target.  This process will take more than one post, and I will link them together so that you can follow from one to the next.  Along the way, we will discuss the things that we are doing so that you can apply this technique in your mapping using the target and source in your own mapping tasks. (more…)

Introduction: This is a quick exercise to familiarize you with mapping from an EDI file to a Flat File.  If you are new to mapping, or want an idea of what mapping EDI will be like, this exercise should be a good place to start.  If you are familiar with mapping this should be a quick review with a few tips.  I use Target Based mapping.  Check out my post on Target Mapping here.  If EDI is unfamiliar and you need some basic information, my EDI primer is here.  If you are ready to map, and understand EDI basics, then lets get started.

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Its time for another mapping exercise.  This time we will receive an EDI 832 in 4010 format, and map the data to a DB or flat file.  Getting catalog data into your procurement system is an important task.  And creating  variety of mapping exercises provides us with a better understanding of how mapping projects work than just having one that tries to be everything.  And mapping is one of the fun things that we get to do.  Following this exercise we will have worked through the the common issues and demonstrated how this process comes together.

Mapping Steps

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If you have just a few Trading Partners, having a unique and separate map for each of them might be a good option.  However, if you have plans to scale your integration to 10s, 20s, or 100s and 1000s of trading partners, having a one map to one trading partner strategy is a recipe for a difficult to maintain and support integration solution.  And it doesn’t have to be this way.  There are a few strategies that will help you create an integration that will scale and be easy to support.

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