This acronym stands for American National Standards Institute. ANSI is the central body responsible for the identification of a single consistent set of voluntary standards called American National Standards. ANSI is also the US representative to nontreaty standards organizations.

To call up goods from a business partner based on a purchase schedule. Call-off involves sending a message (EDI) to notify a business partner that the scheduled items must be delivered. The message contains the item quantity and the date and time they must be delivered.

A means used to identify the reason for a change to a sales or purchase order, for example, a contract limitation, feasibility issue, or transportation limitation. A change reason is identified by a code.

A user-defined code that can be used to identify types of changes made to orders, such as a price change or quantity increase.

This acronym stands for Electronic Data Interchange for Administration, Commerce, and Transport. A worldwide organization developing standards for electronic data interchange.

There are other similar organizations (for example, Odette), each using its own subset of standard EDIFACT messages.

When you define messages, you can use the naming convention that coincides with the standard naming conventions to which you are accustomed.

A protocol defined at national and international levels to define the process, procedures, and format of electronically transmitted data (messages) between two business partners.

The computer-to-computer transmission of a standard business document in a standard format. Internal EDI refers to the transmission of data between companies on the same internal company network (also referred to as multicompany). External EDI refers to the transmission of data between your company and external business partners.

Selects the order types and orders to be invoiced. If you process an invoicing batch, LN selects the invoicing data and generates the invoices for the order types and orders selected through the invoicing batch.

A demand-pull system of just-in-time production that regulates the supply of items to shop floor warehouses.

Kanban uses standard containers or lot sizes (also called bins) to deliver items to shop floor warehouses. In the shop floor warehouse, two or more bins are available with the same items. Items are only taken from one bin. Typically, if a bin is empty, a new bin is ordered and the items are taken from the (second) full bin. To each bin a label is attached. The line stations use the label to order a full bin with the required items.

Sometimes, not every bin is provided with a label. For example, a label is attached to every second bin. When both bins are empty, the user scans the label of the second empty bin to generate a supply order for both empty bins.

A schedule that contains lines without a reference number. Because no specific requirement exists for the schedule line, nonreferenced schedule lines can first be clustered and then ordered, shipped, and received together.

A list of items to be picked-up at the supplier’s location by a specific carrier for transport to the customer on a specific day.

A purchase release is used to send out, under one release number, those schedules that share the following common characteristics:

• Buy-from business partner
• Ship-from business partner
• Ship-to address
• Release type (material release/ shipping schedule/ sequence shipping schedule)
• Shipment based schedule/ receipt based schedule
• Communication method
• Warehouse

A timetable of planned supply of materials. Purchase schedules support long-term purchasing with frequent deliveries and are usually backed by a purchase contract. All requirements for the same item, buy-from business partner, ship-from business partner, purchase office, and warehouse are stored in one schedule.

A schedule that contains lines with reference numbers. When goods are shipped, received, and invoiced, the reference numbers are used to communicate with suppliers and other LN packages.

A classification used to specify the type of the release based on which schedule requirements are grouped and EDI messages can be generated. These messages are indicated by the used schedule.

Three requirement types exist that represent a requirement in time, used for scheduling.

The available requirement types are:

• Immediate
• Firm
• Planned

For non-referenced schedules, requirement types are linked to segments.

For pull forecast schedules, the requirement type is always Planned or Immediate. For pull call-off schedules, the requirement type is always Firm.

Identifies, by one release number, those sales schedules that share the following common characteristics:

• Sold-to business partner
• Ship-to business partner
• Ship-to address
• Release type (material release/ shipping schedule/ sequence shipping schedule/ pick-up sheet)
• Shipment based schedule/ receipt based schedule
• Schedule quantity qualifier
• Forecast horizon start and end
• Sales release origin
• Customer release
• (Customer order)
• Customer contract reference

A timetable of planned supply of materials. Sales schedules support long-term sales with frequent deliveries. All requirements for the same item, sold-to business partner, ship-to business partner, and delivery parameter are stored in the same sales schedule.

A number that uniquely identifies the revision of the sales schedule. The sales schedule revision number indicates the sales schedule updates that are sent by your business partner.

The periodic creation, matching, and approval of invoices based on receipts or consumption of goods by an agreement between business partners. The sold-to business partner pays for the goods without having to wait for an invoice from the buy-from business partner.

A shipping schedule with precise information about the production or deliveries of the requirements. This schedule can include the production or delivery sequence, and the order, the place, and the time of unloading after shipment.

Subcontracting instructions constitute the subcontracting order for a carrier. The subcontracting instructions list the goods for which the carrier is to carry out the transportation.

Acronym for Verband der Automobilindustrie; A standard for automotive electronic interchange of business transactions in Germany. This particular standard uses a fixed length field/record format.