Account determination System function that determines automatically the accounts in financial accounting to which the amount(s) in question should be posted for the user during any posting transaction.
AM Asset Management Module
Application Link Enabling Application Link Enabling (ALE) supports the creation and operation of distributed applications and application integration is achieved via synchronous and asynchronous communication , not via a central database. Provides business-controlled message exchange with consistent data on loosely linked SAP applications.
APO Advanced Planner & Optimizer
ARIS-Toolset Tool for creating the graphical models that describe the functionality and integration of the SAP R/3 System.
ATP Available-to-promise is the quantity of a material or part still available to MRP which can be used for new sales orders.
Authorization Allowing a person/system/module to have a specified access limitations. An authorization specifies one or more permissible values for each of the authorization fields that are listed in an authorization object.
Backflush Material is issued for use in an order. Automatic posting of a goods issue for these components some time after their actual physical issue is termed as backflush. During confirmation, the goods issue posting of backflushed components is carried out.
BDC Batch Data Communication. Used to define processing mode for a batch input sessions like Displaying all records, Displaying error dialogs, Process sessions in background etc.
BW Business Information Warehouse
CATT SAP tool for grouping and automating repetitive business transactions for test runs and text modules.
Company Code The smallest organizational unit for which a complete self-contained set of accounts can be drawn up . Will be able provide data for generating balance sheets, profit-loss statements.
EDI Electronic Data Interchange
GI Goods Issue.
GL General Ledger
GR Goods Receipt.
GT Goods Transfer posting.
IR Invoice Receipt.
Job A continuous chain of programs, using control commands.
KANBAN Production control System used for organizing production that aims to reduce stock levels in the warehouse, thus reducing production costs.
LES Logistics Execution System
LIFO Last in First Out is a valuation procedure according to which the stocks of a material that were last received are the first to be used or sold.
Matchcode A tool for finding specific record Mainly used to find possible entries for an input field
MAP Moving Average Price.
MPS Master Production Scheduling takes care of those parts or products which greatly influence company profits or which take up critical resources.
MRP Material Requirements Planning takes into account and plan every future requirement during the creation of order proposals (independent requirements, dependent requirements etc).
MVP Material’s Valuation Price. The standard price for a standard price material, the moving average price for a moving average price material.
OLAP Online Analytical Processing
OSS On-line Service System that helps in users to get fast and effective help from SAP. The user may log-in to OSS system to find a possible solution for a ‘bug’. Get the patch ,if any, download and apply to correct the problem.
PCC Pre-Configured Client. The R/3 Simplification Group’s pre-configured client.
PO Purchase Order.
PR Purchase Requisition
PRP Product Requirement Planning
RFC Remote Function Call. Allows to call and process predefined procedures/functions in a remote SAP system.
RFQ Request For Quote
RI Reversal of goods Issue.
RMA Return Material Authorizations
RR Reversal of goods Receipt.
RT Reversal of goods Transfer posting
SADT Structured Analysis and Design Technique
SAP Retail Includes more than 200 new business processes that have been designed specifically for retail purposes. This is the integral part of R/3 release 4.0.
SAPscript SAP-own word processing system. The text editor supplied with the R/3 System for creating and editing documentation.
Session Log Record of a batch input session run. For each run, a session log is created.
SO Sales Order
SOP Sales & Operations Planning Sales & Operations Planning (SOP) is a flexible forecasting and planning tool with which sales, production, and other supply chain targets can be set on the basis of historical, existing, and/or estimated future data. Resource planning can also be carried out to determine the amounts of the work center capacities and other resources required to meet these targets.
UPC Universal Product Code
WBS Work Breakdown Structure is a model of a project, that represents in a hierarchy the actions and activities to be carried out in a project.
WF Business Work Flow: Tool for automatic control and execution of cross-application processes. This involves coordinating the persons involved, the work steps required, the data which needs to be processed (business objects). The main advantage is reduction in throughput times and the costs involved in managing business processes. Transparency and quality are enhanced by its use.
XXL List Viewer Tool used to configure Microsoft Excel for display and further processing of R/3 application data. The XXL List Viewer facilitates presentation of R/3 data in Excel, taking into account information delivered by R/3 on the structure of the data
Year-end closing Annual balance sheet and profit and loss (P+L) statement, which must both be created in accordance with the legal requirements. All assets, debts and accrued and deferred items (balance sheet) as well as all revenue and
Zero Stock Check Check or inventory procedure used to increase the level of accuracy in stock figures. If a storage bin becomes empty after a goods movement, the bin is checked as to whether it is really empty or not.
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SAP Planning: Best Practices in Implementation
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