Dinakar I maintain a list of online EDI resources... There are lots of tools and examples that you can work with.
http://www.spe-edi.com/links.html Hi, Thank you Samantha and Art for the great help. I am learning EDI, i just started my career as an EDI consultant. Kindly let me know some free tools with which i may have hands on. On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Art Douglas <[email protected]> wrote: > Dinakar, > > > > While Smanatha´s response is technically correct, it may be a little more > terse than you desired. > > > > Mapping EDI is not all that much different than mapping terrain - or rather > using a map to go from where you are to where you wish to be. > > > > There are generally two kinds of EDI maps: inbound and outbound. The > inbound map is used to take information sent to you by another entity (we > call other entities "Trading Partners"), and transform it in to a form > useable by your organization. The outbound map takes information generated > by your organization and formats it for your Trading Partner. The formats > most often used are X12 in the USA, and variations of EDIFACT in Europe. > Both X12 and EDIFACT, as well as other standard formats are used outside and > across the named regions as well. Another format some people class with EDI > is XML. XML is quite useful, especially if you are selling a product > designed to use it. In the EDI community we are often reserved in our > enthusiasm of XML, for reasons you don´t need to know in a "Basic" > discussion. > > > > Each standard has various versions, older, newer and newest. The standards > undergo change, and each batch of changes warrant a new version. > > > > Before you create a map, you must establish between you and your trading > partner, which standard and version you will use. Then you must establish > the document, aka Transaction Set. For example, if you are mapping for a > manufacturer, and your trading partner is a wholesale distribution company, > and your client of employer is in the U.S., you may wish to use the X12 850 > Purchase order, or the 875 Grocery Purchase Order. Or you may select the > EDIFACT ORDERS transaction set. I´m going to continue this discussion > assuming you have selected the 850. > > > > Next, you must determine where you wish to go - the target of the EDI map, > if you will. What information do you want. Let´s say your client or > employer is using Oracle EBS. In all likelihood, you will want to map to > the POI file, which Oracle´s EC Gateway will suck in and make into a Sales > Order. (Assuming the data is correct, your map is correct, and the setup is > correct in Oracle,) > > > > You must determine what data your Trading Partner (TP) is sending in the > 850, and if it is adequate. If not, you will have to negotiate with your > TP, or your Oracle developers to fill in the gaps. > > > > Once all that is done, comes the simple part - building the map. From > here, you use the tool provided to build a set of instructions that will > transform the inbound data into the outbound data. > > > > Next comes testing of the map, doing the Oracle setup for the Trading > Partner/Customer and testing of the results in a test Oracle instance. Once > you and your internal customer (customer service?) are happy with the > results, you move or replicate the Oracle setup to production, redirect your > map´s output to production, notify your TP that you are in production. If > you use SAP, JDE, PeopleSoft or any of hundreds of others of back-end > systems, the steps are similar. > > > > Somewhere along the line you should have also tested the 997 > acknowledgement which tells your TP that you have received his EDI > transactions, and that they did or did not pass a syntax test. > > > > Now, you sit back and monitor the results, making corrections as necessary. > > > > Good luck, > > > > Art > > EDI Guy > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of > *DINAKAR > *Sent:* Thursday, March 31, 2011 7:22 AM > > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [EDI-L] EDI mapping basics > > > > > > Hi, > > > Kindly someone post the basics of mapping. I am a starter. > > -- > WITH WARM REGARDS! > > DINAKAR > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > -- WITH WARM REGARDS! DINU [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... 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