Within the automotive industry, it is often difficult to organize supplier and/or competitor data across different automotive industry standards and data models. The Data Onboarding solution helps to provide tools for suppliers and retailers to be able to map data from one industry standard to another, or to and from your own data model. This is done be setting up mapping configurations to onboard or offboard objects from one standard to another standard as defined by the user.
The mapping functionality can copy and/or transform data from one STEP object to another STEP object. The data can be as simple as copying attribute values, or as complex as retrieving data from the source object to create an entirely new product or classification hierarchy.
The actual data mapping is executed via Business Rules and/or Background processes inside a workflow or upon approvals. After initial configuration, Web UI users can view, edit, and create Mapper Configuration setup entities and Mapper plugins to better handle the automation of data onboarding.
The Data Onboarding solution is used within an Onboarding Mappings Detail Screen.
This section addresses
- Prerequisites
- Configuring Data Onboarding solution here
- Configuring Web UI for Data Onboarding solution here
- Executing Mapper Configuration setup entity here
- Mapping plugins here
- Mapping plugins use case overview here
Prerequisites
Prior to implementing the Data Onboarding Automation solution, the following items included in the list below should be carefully considered when planning the data onboarding solution.
- Source Object Type
- Target Object Type
- Reference Type