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Figure 1 – Diagram on left illustrates flow of transactions between trading partners. It starts with a PO which has three schedules for a line. The partial shipments were processed successfully, but invoice for second and third shipments failed. Payments were pending for these invoices, leading to loss of revenue. When the problem was identified and analyzed, it was found that partial-ship-flag was not set to “Y” for failed transactions. This caused partner to reject invoices as duplicate. Such issues are likely to be missed during testing due to inefficiencies in current B2B solutions.
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Introduction
Testing is a multi step activity when on-boarding partners. It begins with technical and functional validation of mapping relationships followed by end to end testing with other stake holders. While the importance and significance of each step is essential to ensure a successful map, these steps are often compromised.
Challenges
A vital first step is to independently test the map for compliance with business rules. The mapping relationships have to be tested for boundary conditions before engaging other teams for testing. With most B2B solutions, a map cannot be independently tested without additional setups in place. Complex setups are required to mock up trading partners for passing test files. Since solutions are setup to send map output to fulfillment systems, these have to be intercepted to analyze test results. In order to test multiple scenarios, values in source file has to be modified and submitted for testing. It is a challenge for analysts to make these complex setups and manually mock up huge business documents for every test run.
Faster onboarding of B2B partners
It takes longer to onboard partners because critical tasks are executed manually and outside the B2B solution. Cartopret automates these tasks ensuring quick partner onboarding.
Another challenge analysts face is to debug mapping relationships, as current tools do not provide an easy interface for debugging. Hence they have to make changes in the map to temporarily store result of individual mapping rules for analysis. This is not only time consuming but also leads to other problems if changes are not reverted back properly.
Owing to these challenges, map testing is given minimal importance during on-boarding process leading to gaps in meeting functional requirements. Often end to end testing does not cover every boundary condition due to timeline pressure. Hence business is exposed to the risk of breakdown, leading to loss of opportunity and higher costs.
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.
How Cartopret address the challenges
Cartopret offers an integrated test bed for testing and debugging maps. It enables maps to be tested at granular level without having to make additional setups. Cartopret lets analyst’s to selectively test or debug a set of mapping rules, while hiding complexity of the entire map. Selected rules can be individually validated by providing input values and results can be viewed instantaneously on the screen. Boundary conditions can be tested by just varying input values without having to prepare complete test file.
Cartopret provides another comprehensive way to test the map as a whole. Input data can be imported from a sample file or provided on the screen against desired source elements. Upon executing, results are populated against destination elements, which can also be downloaded to an output file. Cartopret allows internal processes to be tested without having to involve partners. It allows analyst to simulate partner by just selecting from a list and providing input file that needs to be tested.
While technical validation is taken care by automatically validating mapping relationships, Cartopret’s integrated test bed empowers analyst to functionally validate the map. This not only helps create robust maps, but also significantly reduces end to end testing effort as maps are already tested and proven.
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Summary
It is imperative to deploy proven maps for trading partner integration in order to ensure continuity of business operations. Cartopret through its integrated test bed helps analysts thoroughly test maps thereby reducing risks that businesses face while exchanging data electronically.
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Cartopret supports the life cycle of onboarding and maintaining B2B partners. The supported processes include mapping, testing, deploying and transaction reporting.
Faster onboarding of B2B partners
It takes longer to onboard partners because critical tasks are executed manually and outside the B2B solution. Cartopret automates these tasks ensuring quick partner onboarding.
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.
