Import Manager Remote Key issue

Dear All,
I have imported all the records from R3 system in Material repository. Since the full MATMAS xmls were of bigger size I devided it into 5 ports MARA, MARC, MARM, MVKE, MBEW.
Now while importing MARA, remote key was not mapped by mistake.
But we want local Material numbers (i.e. material numbers from R3).
so now do i need to reimport everything again or is there any workaround to it.
-Poonam

Hi Poonam,
In lines with what nitin has said
I feel is the right way to go about with the scenario when you have to deal with remote sytems and remote keys.
To explain:
When ever you are importing data from an external system you need to maintain a remote key which will identify that these set of records are coming from a differnt remote system.
For this we use Remote sytem mapping.
The unique key of the incoming source file is to be mapped with the remote key in the destination side in Import manger.
This remote key will then act as your primary key and can be used in the matching field tab.
The unique key then can be cloned to map it with its correcponding field in the MDM rep.
Eg Material no -> Remote key
Material no(cloned) -> Material no
Then when you syndicate these field you need to do proper mapping in the syndicator for the remote sytem and then on your local id will be store in the value field and global id in the remote key field
Hope it helped
Kindly reward points if found useful
Thanks
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