1. Project Background Project Title
An eLogistics Appliance with Data Exchange and Conversion Technologies for Infrastructure Connectivity
Implementation Schedule
01 Jul 2007 – 31 Dec 2008
Funding Agent
Logistics and Supply Chain Management R&D Center

2. Objectives
To develop technical solutions to deal with the following challenges in logistic industry:
How can we make the development and maintenance of data mappings easier?
How can we make it easier to integrate DTTN with the users’ legacy systems?

3. Stakeholders DTTN Confirm requirement on the deliverables CECID
Conduct R&D on deliverables
DTTN/CECID
Conduct pilot projects to verify the deliverables
LSCM
Provide project funding, accept project and provide technology transfer support

4. Deliverables Technical Deliverables morphe jericho Deployment
A mapper for automating data mappings from flat files to DTTN Canonical XML files
jericho
A staging application for integrating DTTN and Users’ Systems
Deployment
Pilot projects to verify the above deliverables

5. Project Schedule 2007 2008 Project Planning Requirement R&D - Core9 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 5 6
Project Planning
Requirement
R&D - Core
R&D - Tuning
Pilot Projects
Scheduled
Finished

6. morphe

7. Total 30 Days DTTN BI Team and User 4 Days DTTN BI Team 6 Days
Development Team in China
10 Days
5 Days
Total
30 Days
Get Requirement
Write Specification
Development of mappings
Internal Test
User Acceptance Test

8. Conversion Preparation
Conversion Execution

9. Number of fields to be mapped (approx)
Test Data
We re-developed the mappings of 2 existing real cases using morphe
Wonten
GME
The result is as follows:
Case
Number of fields to be mapped (approx)
Time required
Wonten 38
1 hour
GME 36
2 hours

10. Development of mappings
DTTN BI Team and User
4 Days
DTTN BI Team
6 Days
Using morphe
2 Days
10 Days
5 Days
Total
22 Days
30 Days
Get Requirement
Write Specification
Development of mappings
Internal Test
User Acceptance Test

11. In the nutshell Given a flat file, how to
locate and pluck pieces of information precisely, and
put the plucked information to the target XML files

12. Challenge 1
Automation requires a highly structural mapping specification
to precisely locate the information in the flat file
to handle logical evaluation
Current Mapping Specification is semi- structural
Our approach:
Defining precise virtual zones on the flat files

14. Challenge 2
XML files are Tree-like data structures, where different information are put onto the corresponding nodes of the trees
Taking DTTN’s Commercial Invoice as an example, there are 88,117 nodes
Locating the right nodes is not easy
Our approach:
Provide multiple filters for locating XML nodes

15. DEMO

16. Conversion Preparation
Conversion Execution

17. Hardware Requirement In setup mode, morphe runs on standard PC
Pentium 4 2GHz or above
1GB memory or more
Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
In operation mode, the conversion program generated by morphe runs on B2B Connectors
Deploys as a networked file repository server

18. jericho

19. Message Staging Service

20. More Applications

21. Demo Scenario
We are here

22. DEMO

23. Deployment
The applications are deployed with B2B Connectors as a bundle
B2B Connectors are deployed in users’ premise as a network device
Customization effort may need:
Development of XForms for presentation (1-2 days)
Development of data inheritance logic (depends)
Customizations on Inbox/Outbox fields (1 day)