Relationship-Centric View
In the relationship-centric view, MDM treats the relationships from the standpoint of the links between groups or pairs of related records:
· Sibling. Each link record defines the set of links for an entire set of related sibling records; each sibling record will appear in at most one link record.
· Parent/child. Each link record defines a single link between a parent/child pair; each parent record and/or each child record will likely appear in multiple link records.
An example of the relationship-centric view is the import and export file format for defining related records, as shown in the figure below.
SKU <Kits> |
Part No <Parts> |
Quantity |
Required |
135-A |
1234 |
3 |
0 |
135-A |
5678 |
2 |
1 |
135-A |
9012 |
1 |
1 |