Glossary for Common

In LN, accounting entities have a one-to-one relationship with financial companies.

Accounting entity is a mandatory field in Business Object Documents (BODs) for transactional data.

The actual calendar is linked to a calendar code, and inherits all the details of the its parent calendar.

For example, the actual calendar for calendar code A consists of the calendar lines from A. It also consists of the lines from its parent calendars plus, the lines from the standard calendar.

For example, an affiliated company can represent affiliated enterprises and sites of your enterprise in other countries.

To access and retrieve data from an archive company, you must change company to the archive company.

For example, if a work center is available for production on Monday through Friday and available for service activities on Saturdays, you can define two availability types, one for production and one for service activities and link these availability types to the calendar for that work center.

LN can be set to check bank account numbers when you enter them. If the account number does not pass the check, LN displays a warning message.

From a development perspective, a business object is a collection of tables, and functions that manipulate these tables, implemented simultaneously during the development phase. A business object is identified by the combination of a package code, module code, and business object code.

You address the business partner in the person of the business partner's contact. The business-partner status determines if you can carry out transactions. The transactions type (sales orders, invoices, payments, shipments) is defined by the business partner's role.

For example, you cannot enter a sales order for a business partner with status Prospect, or ship goods to a business partner with status Inactive.

A buyer role can be, for example, economic buyer, decision maker, influencer.

You can use calendar recurrences to define calendars.

The default capacity percentage is 100%.

For ordering and invoicing, you must define a carrier as a business partner.

You can link channels to sold-to business partners and to items. Channels can be used in connection with available-to-promise (ATP).

You can assign a certain ATP volume to a channel. This volume limits the ATP for that channel to a maximum.

In Enterprise Planning, clusters are used for groups of warehouses, connected by supplying relationships.

In a multisite structure, some of the database tables can be unique for the company and the company can share other database tables with other companies.

Manufactured items with the default supply source set to Assembly and Generic items are always configurable. Purchased items with a purchase schedule in use can be configurable. Configurable Purchased items can be used within Assembly Control only.

A configured item can have components that are also configured, for example, a bike with a bike light. If a configured item is an end item, it is configured with its configurable components and stored as a product variant.

You can have one contact for the business partner in multiple roles. For example, the same person can be both the invoice-to and the pay-by business partner's contact, but not the sold-to contact. The mask then consists of invoice-to and pay-by, whereas the other roles are not selected.

Cost items are not used for production and cannot be held in inventory. They are also referred to as expense items.

Countries are part of the data that you must set up for tax reporting. In addition, items can be grouped and selected according to their country of origin.

When you create orders, LN continually checks that the total amount of created and invoiced orders does not exceed the credit limit. When you exceed the limit, LN gives a warning message.

The credit rating is linked to an invoice-to business partner and defines a number of details such as, the action to be taken when a sales order is processed, and when the credit check must be repeated.

The default supply source determines what type of order is used to supply the item, but in general, you can override the default and specify an alternate source.

The supplier uses the delivery point in the shipment building process: the shipments are grouped by delivery point.

Currency rates are defined between the external currencies and the reference currency, and between the reference currency and the other home currencies. Transaction amounts are first converted into the reference currency and then the transaction amount in the reference currency is converted into the other home currencies.

A details session can contain a number of tabs to group related fields.

An EDI messages can concern, for example, an order acknowledgement or an advance shipment notice (ASN).

An effectivity series is identified by the unit series code and the from-sequence number.

You can link one or more effectivity units to a combination of end item, unit series code, and from-sequence number.

Efficiency factors influence the lead-time calculation in Enterprise Planning.

The engineering module is the top of a tree structure (BOM) of engineering items. If Assembly Planning generates the assembly orders, the Engineering Module item type is created in the Item Base Data tables in LN, if not yet present. The engineering module is part of the order content and the as-built structure.

When you carry out logistic transactions between enterprise units, these are posted in the financial companies to which each enterprise unit is linked. You can define the relationships between the enterprise units, and thus the goods transfer that can take place between the enterprise units. To use invoicing and pricing between enterprise units, you must link the enterprise units to internal business partners.

You can use enterprise units to do separate financial accounting for parts of your business. For example, you can define enterprise units for separate parts of your organization that belong to one logistic company, but that are located in different countries. The accounting of each enterprise unit is performed in each country's national currency, and in the financial company linked to the enterprise unit.

You can add up to 15 data fields to the Intrastat statistical data by defining them as extra Intrastat information set. You can assign the extra Intrastat information sets to warehouse order lines.

If the financial company of the administrative department has a tax number in the tax country of the order, the financial department is the same department as the administrative department.

Generated orders always have a fixed order quantity.

The tax provider determines the GEO code based upon the address information entered and the county and city selected.

For example, if the currency rounding factor is 0.01 and grand totals must be rounded on 0.05, you can use grand total rounding and define a grand total rounding factor of 0.05.

Currency rates are defined between the transaction currencies and all home currencies. Transaction amounts are converted directly from the transaction currency into the home currencies.

This price does not include material price surcharges.

Inspection is often performed on delivered goods upon arrival.

You must define the logistic companies as affiliated-company business partners and you must indicate that intercompany settlements can be performed for the business partner.

Usually, the intermediate sends a purchase order for the goods to the supplier and an invoice to the customer. In addition, the intermediary can receive an invoice from the supplier.

These statistics must be reported regularly with an EU Intrastat declaration. The EU Intrastat declaration is required by the national tax authorities in the framework of the European Common Market since 1993 (EC '93).

You can select a default invoice delivery method for each invoice-to business partner.

An item can also represent a set of items handled as one kit, or exist in multiple product variants.

In LN, landed costs can be part of multiple landed costs sets.

The landed costs set includes search attributes that link a set of landed cost lines to a transaction.

List items are used to speed up the order-entry process. The order lines for a list item can contain main items or components.

Location is a mandatory field in Business Object Documents (BODs) for transactional data.

The logistic company's enterprise units can be linked to a financial company within one financial group company. However, enterprise units can also be linked to financial companies within different financial group companies. Also, enterprise units within different logistic companies can be linked to one financial company. And finally, it is possible that some financial companies within a financial group company are not linked to an enterprise unit.

The end item is usually a high-tech standard product, configured according to customer specifications.

For materials with fluctuating prices, material base prices prevent high material surcharges and ensure realistic initial prices.

Examples of material exchanges are: London Metal Exchange (LME), Deutsche Elektrolyt-Kupfer-Notierung für Leitmaterial (DEL), and Singapore Metal Exchange (SIME).

Typically, these sites are located in various regions or countries, but they belong to the same group of companies.

These sites are modeled as financial or logistical companies within LN.

To select nonconsecutive records, click the first record, and then hold down CTRL and click additional records.

Within a number group you can define multiple series. Each series is identified by the series code. The series numbers that LN generates consist of the series code followed by the first free number in the series. Series codes of the same number group have the same length.

Series identify orders with certain characteristics, for example, all sales orders handled by the large accounts department start with LA (LA0000001, LA0000002, LA0000003, and so on).

Order types determine the character or function of an order and, consequently, of the message. Order types prescribe the chronological order of the sessions (order steps) in the order procedure. The main point is, that you must carry out order steps successively to process a purchase or sales order.

If you define branches of one company as different business partners, the business partners must all have the same parent business partner.

You can define pattern exceptions to exclude particular dates from a pattern, such as to exclude holidays from a working calendar.

These details are default values that you can change on the order or invoice as necessary.

Each line of the payment schedule defines a part of the invoice amount that must be paid within a specific period, the payment method used for the payment, and the discount conditions that apply to the payment.

Companies established in Spain are obliged to use this information, along with the information contained in the sales listing, to make a tax declaration for their goods and services transactions within the EU.

You can also define a default warehouse where goods ordered by the purchase office must be delivered.

To give additional information about an action, you can select and enter a reason from a list. LN can also print the reason in the relevant report.

For example, two warehouses can have a relationship of the relationship type Internal Trade Details. This relationship contains information that is used when goods are transferred between those two warehouses.

You can make a repair price book distinctive by its description.

You can arrange addresses by routes to print picking lists and shipping notes sorted by route.

Companies established in European Union (EU) countries are obliged to use this document to make a tax declaration for their goods transactions within the EU.

LN bases the sales listing on the financial transactions that result from export transactions when the related invoices are processed.

The quantity on demand, in stock, and so on, during a specific period of the seasonal pattern is the standard quantity multiplied by the seasonal factor for the period. This information is used for forecast and advice.

If the quantity for this period is normal, the factor is 1.0.

If the quantity for this period is more than the standard quantity, the factor is >1.0.

If the quantity for this period is less than the standard quantity, the factor is <1.0.

Examples of serialized items are cars (Vehicle Identification Number), airplanes (tail numbers), PCs, and other electronic equipment (serial numbers).

Serial numbers can be generated for items and for tools.

Series identify orders with certain characteristics. For example, all sales orders handled by the large accounts department start with LA (LA0000001, LA0000002, LA0000003, and so on).

The code of a session consists of a package code, a module code, four digits that indicate the main table number and the session type, an m or an s, and three additional digits, for example, Countries (tcmcs0510m000).

Business-partner signal

A warning message displayed if you select a business partner to which a signal is linked.

Sites are used to model the supply chain in a multisite environment.

In LN, a site is represented by means of a three-digit company code.

LN uses the specification to match supply and demand.

In some countries, such as Spain and Japan, to pay the stamp tax, you must stick a stamp on the trade note document. In other countries, to pay the stamp tax, you must buy an official form for the trade note.

The reorder point is usually calculated by adding the safety stock and the forecasted requirements during the replenishment lead time.

SIC items are planned by Warehousing.

(Formerly called subcontracting item)

After specifying the desired schedule number, you can specify the defaults for a number of stage payment lines. The time fence between the order date and the invoice date, and the percentage of the total net amount are specified on a stage payment line.

Instead of specifying the ledger account for each type of tax amount in the Tax Codes by Country (tcmcs0136s000) session you can specify the ledger accounts at once by selecting a tax account group for the tax code by country combination.

Usually, the tax base value is the net order amount or the net invoice amount. However, for types of tax such as social contributions that can be charged on a part of the invoice amount, the tax base value can be a percentage of the net amount.

Some enterprises are exempt from sales tax within the jurisdiction of certain tax authorities. Invoices for sales to a customer with a valid tax exemption must have zero tax amounts. If you are exempt from sales tax, your suppliers must not include the tax amount on their invoices.

For more information, refer to Search Order Tax Defaults

No data is shared between tenants. The tenant is the top level container for all data.

In LN, the tenant is always a constant value for an LN installation.

Tenant is a mandatory field in Business Object Documents (BODs).

Search attributes not linked to the attribute set cannot be entered on the terms and conditions agreement for the terms and conditions type.

Explanation: A 5 kg sample will be tested by testing 1 kg at a time.

The exact text of this rule is: Monetary amounts to be converted from one national currency into another shall first be converted into a monetary amount expressed in the euro unit, which amount may be rounded to not less than three decimals and shall be converted into the other national currency unit. No alternative method of calculation may be used unless it produces the same results.

The term "withholding tax" generally refers to withholding income tax and social contributions.

In LN, working hours types are user-defined time elements to structure a calendar.

ZIP codes are printed on forwarding documents on which no further address data is printed. The ZIP/postal code does not appear in the address lines on order documents.

You can use a zoom session to enter the code of an existing record (for example, an item, order type, or warehouse) in another session.