Detailed Course Content - Advanced EDI Training All Industries
Section One: Advanced EDI Business Concepts
EDI For E-Commerce:E-commerce EDI usage is exploding. This workshop will show you how to avoid common pitfalls and master transactions such as the 855 PO Acknowledgement, 869 Order Status Inquiry, 870 Order Status Report, and 846 Inventory Inquiry/Advice. Successful e-commerce EDI will help you boost productivity, reduce errors and improve trading partner relationships.
EDI For Finance:This workshop will show you how to implement EDI transactions such as the 820 RA/Payment and the 823 Lockbox. Finance EDI can help you improve productivity and reduce costs and errors in your treasury and accounts receivable departments.
EDI For Inventory:An inventory management system is incomplete without EDI. Learn best practices for EDI transactions such as the 846 Inventory Inquiry/Advice, 947 Warehouse Inventory Adjustment Advice, and the 852 Product Activity Data. This will enable you to provide inventory visibility to your partners and optimize inventory to meet goals for product availability and ROI.
EDI For Sales:Studies show that the data input for about one quarter of Business Intelligence and Decision Support comes from EDI transactions. Learn best practices for implementing the 852 and other EDI-related transactions and watch your sales department reap the rewards..
EDI For E-Commerce:E-commerce EDI usage is exploding. This workshop will show you how to avoid common pitfalls and master transactions such as the 855 PO Acknowledgement, 869 Order Status Inquiry, 870 Order Status Report, and 846 Inventory Inquiry/Advice. Successful e-commerce EDI will help you boost productivity, reduce errors and improve trading partner relationships.
EDI For Transportation:Transportation EDI is very powerful but underutilized. 3PL's, freight carriers, suppliers and retailers can benefit from learning how to manage transactions such as 110 Air Freight Details and Invoice, 204 Load Tender, 210 Invoice, 214 Transportation Carrier Ship. This workshop will show you how to use this information to track shipments and optimize your transportation management system.
Section Two: Advanced EDI Mapping
File Spec Creation:A file spec is a critical success factor for any EDI project. In this example we will analyze an EDI mapping specs for three EDI transactions.
Loops and Nested Loops:In this section we’ll cover loops and nested loops. In addition we will discuss the HL segment (hierarchy level). We’ll explain how to structure and set the same maximum usage (loops) on the input and output side of the map.
XML Mapping:In this segment of the Advanced EDI mapping class we will conduct XML-EDI and EDI-XML mapping..
Mapping Best Practice:In this section you will learn a lot of mapping best practices, for example, connecting elements/segments at the same hierarchal level is very important. For example, you will learn to connect header level segments on the input side to the header level segments on the output side of a map, you will also learn how to map detail-to-detail, and summary-to summary sections.
In this section we will also cover the best practices of connecting elements/segments with the same data type. For example, you will learn how to map from numeric fields to numeric fields, date-to-date, string-to \-string. The instructor will illustrate the importance of using the same data type in both the input and output section the same map when possible.
In the process of mapping the instructor will explain that all segments/elements on the input side of the map will be in the file. For example, if in the CSV file a certain column is not being used, map it anyway. Some translators require all the fields be mapped and this is a good practice for troubleshooting.