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EDI Document Exchanges are made Easier and Cost-Effective from Oracle Applications EDI SIG Session
Presenter: Kris Gazula,
Sirvisetti Systems
April 24 (Thursday); 03:30 to 04:30 pm Delta Island E |
| Abstract
The current method of exchange of EDI documents with Oracle E-Business Suite involve two steps: - Translating EDI Document to Oracle format and mapping the documents to Oracle specific formats; and
- Importing or exporting the translated and mapped documents to or from Oracle EBS using Oracle eCommerce Gateway or XML Gateway. Although the process works well, the challenges are the following:
- Need two sets of experts to import or export translated and mapped documents using eCommerce or XML Gateway; and
- Need experts who understand different types of EDI documents to map from Oracle documents. Moreover, the above two steps are disconnected and very often involve manual intervention. Hence exchange of EDI Documents with Oracle EBS at best semi-automated that lead to errors and inefficiencies.
The alternative is to use XML capabilities of Oracle EBS. We will present a cost effective alternative method that provides nearly complete automation of exchange of EDI Documents with Oracle EBS. The method leverages inherent XML capabilities of Oracle EBS to provide the alternative to the traditional approach described above. The method uses translations involving EDI to XML (EDI2XML) or XML to EDI (XML2EDI) while exchanging the documents. Then the automated exchange of XML documents with Oracle EBS is implemented using Oracle standard APIs. The translations (EDI2XML or XML2EDI) can be achieved using any standard XML tool sets that are available in the market. We will present Order-to-Cash as an example that involves EDI Documents 850 (Inbound), 855 (Outbound) and 810 (Outbound) to show you the advantages of the alternative approach. The presentation will demonstrate how the method simplifies the exchange of documents; reduce costs for implementation, maintenance and support; and scalability capabilities for expanded transactions for the enterprises. The alternative method that is nearly automated minimizes errors and improves efficiencies will save implementation and maintenance costs at minimum of 50% and 30%, respectively. |
