EDI Transaction Mapping

PeopleSoft applications store transaction data in tables in the PeopleSoft database. For an application to process an EDI transaction, it needs the transaction data in its tables. So the first step in processing an EDI transaction is transferring the data from an incoming EDI Transaction Set file into the application tables. Similarly, the first step in generating an EDI transaction for delivery to a trading partner is getting the transaction data out of the application tables into an EDI Transaction Set file.

You specify how the EDI agent transfers data between EDI Transaction set files and application tables by creating electronic commerce maps. Two kinds of electronic commerce maps are available:

• Inbound maps, which transfer incoming transaction data into your PeopleSoft database.

• Outbound maps, which create outgoing EDI documents from transaction data in the database.

Map profiles specify the maps to which your trading partners have access.