EDI Mapping Services: Transform Data With Confidence
Cogential IT's EDI Mapping Services translate complex EDI documents into the exact data structure your trading partners, ERP systems, and business applications expect. From new map development and partner-specific requirements to testing, validation, and ongoing maintenance, we make sure data gets from one system to another accurately and reliably.
Custom EDI Map Development
New maps are built around your trading partner specifications, document structures, business rules, and target application requirements.
Data Transformation
EDI segments and elements are transformed into the structures your ERP, WMS, TMS, CRM, or other business applications require.
Testing & Validation
Maps are tested against real-world partner requirements and expected business rules before production transactions depend on them.
Ongoing Map Maintenance
Partner specification changes, version updates, new requirements, and evolving business rules are incorporated without letting maps become outdated.
EDI mapping is more than connecting one field to another. Effective maps account for document standards, partner-specific requirements, transformation rules, validation, defaults, conditional logic, and the structure expected by the receiving application.
Source documents, segments, elements, qualifiers, loops, and partner-specific variations are reviewed before mapping begins.
Source values are translated, reformatted, defaulted, combined, split, or conditionally routed as required.
Partner-specific requirements and application logic are incorporated so the resulting data behaves as expected.
Test transactions are validated against source specifications, transformation rules, and target application requirements.
Maps evolve with trading partner changes, EDI standard updates, application changes, and new business requirements.
What Is EDI Mapping?
EDI mapping is the process of defining how data from an EDI document is interpreted, transformed, validated, and delivered into another system or document format. A map establishes the relationship between source EDI segments and elements and the fields, values, and structures expected by the receiving application or trading partner. Effective EDI mapping also handles conditional logic, code translation, required fields, data formatting, defaults, and partner-specific variations. Cogential IT helps design, develop, test, implement, and maintain these maps so your EDI data moves accurately between trading partners and business systems.
When mapping problems start becoming business problems
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Trading partner documents require frequent manual correction before they can be processed.
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New partner implementations repeatedly require custom development without a consistent mapping process.
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EDI errors are caused by unclear transformation rules, outdated maps, or undocumented partner requirements.
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Changes to ERP or partner specifications create unexpected downstream EDI failures.