MAPICS/XA to JDE Enterprise 1

Hi group,

We have a new requirement at my company/division.  Our corporate owners
want us to start producing parts for a number of their products, as well as
a couple of their end items (travel trailers), since we have excess
capacity at our plant.  They run on JDEdwards Enterprise 1 (formerly known
as One World).  We, of course, run our entire facility on MAPICS/XA R6.
For this to work without massive duplication of keying (always a bad idea),
we will need to integrate JDE E1 to MAPICS for Item Masters and Bills of
Material (they don't use routings) in EPDM.  I'm sure I can accomplish this
through the EPDM File Maintenance off-line loads, but I was wondering if
any of you had experience with this so you could give me some ideas or
suggestions on how to streamline this.

As usually occurs, this is an immediate project - they already sent
Engineers into our plant to start loading drawings and such.

Any experienced tips or suggestions will be most welcome.

Dale Gindlesperger
IT Manager/Special Projects Leader
Fleetwood Folding Trailers, Inc.
258 Beacon Street
Somerset, PA  15501