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Figure 1 – This flow diagram shows tasks involved in analyzing and implementing mapping relationships. Highlighted portion shows the manual steps performed by analyst to identify gaps in mapping rules, since current B2B tools do not support these steps. This introduces inefficiency in the process and increases cycle time to onboard trading partners
Improve B2B operational efficiency with Cartopret
Introduction
Enterprises are under constant pressure to reduce operating costs by integrating with customers and suppliers. While they desire to onboard more partners quickly to their B2B platforms, they are challenged by long cycle time of on-boarding process. This is primarily due to tedious manual effort involved in analyzing maps as current tools don’t support this process.
Challenges
In partner on-boarding process, map analysis is an important activity that is performed once partner is engaged and standards identified. During this process, mapping is established between source and destination documents and gaps are investigated. For mapping two business documents, analyst has to refer to multiple tools like Microsoft excel, XML viewer, guideline documents to visually compare elements and map them. It is a challenge for the analyst to correlate business document in multiple tools before mappings can be established in a spread sheet.
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Once the mapping is complete, mapping relationships are analyzed to identify gaps in them. Here every mapped element of source and destination document is compared for consistency. Properties like mandatory/optional, data type, length, repeat count, hierarchy of involved elements are analyzed for compatibility. This process is done mostly by visual comparison of document properties in multiple tools, making it tedious and error prone. Since knowledge and expertise of the business analyst is required to map two documents, gap analysis is a time consuming manual process with current B2B tools.
Since most enterprises are under aggressive deadlines to onboard partners, the process of analyzing maps is often compromised and skipped. This makes the maps faulty and break when pressed into service.
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How Cartopret addresses these challenges
Cartopret automates the process of analyzing maps and identifying gaps. The process of analyzing maps is also simplified in Cartopret. It presents a complete view of source and destination documents along with its properties. These documents are presented side by side along with the hierarchical view making it easier for the analyst to correlate them for analysis. This eliminates the need for additional tools and improves the productivity of mapping process.
The established mapping rules are automatically validated in Cartopret. This validation is performed, based on document definition repository and validation repository. Properties of source and destination elements are compared for consistency and exceptions are logged. All logged exceptions have to be resolved by the analyst before the map can be deployed. This ensures that time spent by the analyst goes toward addressing the problem and not wasted on detection.
For example, mapping an optional field to a mandatory field might cause an error if the optional field does not appear in the data. With validation in place, it will trigger an exception for such mapping and highlight the potential problem to the analyst. Analysts can fix the issue to resolve exceptions or choose to ignore it. Audit trails of all such exceptions are maintained for quality control.
With Cartopret technical validation of mapping relationships are performed at design time, which significantly reducing testing effort. This improves operational efficiency of partner on-boarding process.
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Summary
Ability to quickly onboard trading partners is a critical factor for delivering ROI in B2B projects. Cartopret can help improve operational efficiency by reducing the time taken to integrate with supply chain partners.
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Do you wish B2B integration were simple?
The process of integrating B2B partners relies heavily on technology, thus limiting business analyst's ability to work alone. Cartopret helps by masking the technical complexity behind B2B integration.
Cartopret - Modular view
Cartopret supports the life cycle of onboarding and maintaining B2B partners. The supported processes include mapping, testing, deploying and transaction reporting.
Lower risk of B2B transactions
B2B transactions are at risk because setup complexities make it difficult to thoroughly test all scenarios. Cartopret reduces the risk by providing an integrated test environment.
