The smallest part of the activity structure used for a time-scaled budget. An entity that is used to represent a part of a project in an activity structure.

LN distinguishes these activity types:

• WBS Element
• Control Account
• Work Package
• Planning Package
• Milestone

Commands are distributed across the Views, References, and Actions menus, or displayed as buttons. In previous LN and Web UI releases, these commands are located in the Specific menu.

A company created for the purpose of archiving historic documents and data. You can store redundant data in an archive company.

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

The person or department that is responsible for removing a hold reason from a registered invoice and release the invoice for further processing.

A unique number used by the banks to reference each invoice. The bank reference number can be a string of 20 or more digits, composed in such a way that a number check can be performed to check its validity.

In some countries, the bank reference number is a critical component of payment and receipt transactions, especially if payment slips are used. If bank reference numbers are used, the bank reference number must appear on the invoice document, on the payment slip if applicable, and on the payment document.

A part of a business model that is built from a selection of business functions that are initially created in the repository.

A business related object, such as a purchase order or an organizational unit. A business object has information stored in the business object attributes, such as the purchase order number or the organizational unit name. A business object also contains a set of actions, known as business object methods, that can manipulate the business object attributes, such as Create Purchase Order and List Organizational Units.

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.

An order type in which goods are immediately issued from inventory upon order entry. The goods are then immediately collected by the customer. When the sales order lines are created, the related transactions are automatically concluded.

When you create and save a collect sales order, LN sets the sales order status to Closed. At the same time, LN creates a warehouse order and sets the status of the warehouse order to Shipped. The warehouse order type is the warehouse order type that is linked to the sales order type.

A common parent cost-object level, a level above the special cost object.

A control code is used for control purposes. For analysis, you can group cost objects of the same cost type under a control code. If you use a cost object to categorize a group of cost objects, it can be its own control code. You cannot have more than one control code in a tree. This is used for the frozen bottom-up budget.

A cost component is a user-defined category for the classification of costs.

Cost components have the following functions:

• To break down an item's standard cost, sales price, or valuation price.
• To create a comparison between the estimated production order costs and the actual production order costs.
• To calculate production variances.
• To view the distribution of your costs over the various cost components in the Cost Accounting module.

Cost components can be of the following cost types:

• Operation Costs
• Material Costs
• Surcharge
• General Costs
• Not Applicable

A type of cost carrier for the resources used in your project.

These cost objects are available:

• Material
• Labor
• Equipment
• Subcontracting
• Sundry Costs
• Overhead

Cost objects can be standard or specific for a project. The cost object is related to a control code for cost controlling purposes.

A way of categorizing cost objects and control codes according to the nature of the costs that they represent.

LN Project distinguishes these cost types:

• Materials
• Labor
• Equipment
• Subcontracting
• Sundry Costs
• Overhead

A user-defined group of countries.

The correction form for a (partly) returned purchase or sales order. The credit note states the quantity and value of the goods concerned and the reason for the credit.

A transport document that provides information on a consignment contained in one truck (or other vehicle) and refers to an order or a set of orders for one consignee at a delivery address. If the truck load contains shipments for various business partners, the load includes more than one delivery note. The information on a delivery note includes the delivery date and address, the customer's name, the contents of the consignment, and so on. In Italy, a delivery note is a legally required document, where it used to be called BAM (Bolla Accompagnamento Merci). Currently it is called DDT (Documento di Trasporto). In Portugal and Spain delivery notes are also used, but there they do not have the same legal status as in Italy.

The agreements with the business partner, concerning the way the goods are delivered. Relevant information is printed on various order documents.

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.

The smallest part of an element structure. An element is used to define the (structure of the) work of the project, so that you can carry it out.

The specific agreements within or in addition to the initial contract. An extension falls outside the initial contract with the sold-to business partner. Extensions can be assigned to the bottom-up budget.

LN distinguishes four extension types:

• Scope Change
• Provisional Amount
• Fluctuation Settlement
• Quantities to be Settled

Represents a ledger account and the corresponding dimensions. GL codes are used to represent ledger accounts to users who are not familiar with the structure of the chart of accounts.

To specific logistic transactions, you can link a GL code. Such integration transactions are mapped directly to the ledger account and dimensions of the GL code, they are not included in the mapping process.

To round the grand total amounts on legal documents that you send to your customers, such as sales quotations, service contracts, and sales invoices.

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.

A code attached to a purchase invoice to block the payment of that invoice.

A scheme that defines the ledger accounts and dimensions to which the integration transactions are posted.

A user-definable way to categorize invoices by their delivery method. LN prints invoices grouped by the invoice delivery method. Per invoice delivery method, LN sorts and prints the invoices within each ZIP/postal code by address.

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

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.

Defines the type and number of orders that you can select through the invoicing batch. For example, the types of orders can be Sales, Freight, Projects, or Service, and the number of orders of each type can be None, One, or Several.

This method is only used for contract projects to invoice to Financials.

Capital projects have no invoicing. Sales order projects use Invoicing for invoicing.

A set of parameters that defines, among other things, the types of orders and orders lines that can be combined on an invoice, and the type of invoice to be generated and the costs to be aggregated on Project invoices and Service invoices. You can define different invoicing methods for your invoice-to business partners.

Define the text and the layout of the printed invoices and whether or not you can overwrite the default transaction types and series used for the invoice document numbering.

An invoice without a related sales order or goods receipt and which is directly created in Invoicing.

A code that defines a set of priority-based additional criteria that must be applied when self-billed invoices are automatically matched with corresponding order data.

A monthly statement of the open sales invoices that you send to an invoice-to business partner. The business partner generates self-billed invoices and uses the monthly billing invoice for reference.

Defines a business object or business document, such as a sales order or a contract, in the context of document authorization.

An object type includes one or more tables and specifies this information:

• How the tables of the object type relate to each other.
• The actions to generate a request for document authorization, which will be processed in ION Workflow.
• What data of the object type must be sent to ION Workflow to perform the actual document authorization.

A collective name for the non-financial LN packages. Operations Management represents all the logistic LN packages.

Group of goods or services to which the same tax rules and calculations apply. Product categories are used by tax provider software to calculate the sales tax.

An invoicing method based on progress for elements and activities. The difference with unit rate is twofold.

Unit rate has:

• Invoices based on the progress and element or activity sales rate per unit.
• Invoices settled with the contract amount.

A set of one or more invoicing batches set up for recurring processing. If you process a recurring invoicing batch, LN selects the invoicing data according to the invoicing batches.

A list with information about the origin, value, etc., of invoices.

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.

A group of order numbers or document numbers starting with the same series code.

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 country in which the tax must be paid or reported. The tax country can be different from the country where the goods are issued or delivered.

The tax rates that are valid on this date are used to calculate the tax amounts.

A certificate issued by a tax authority to a specific business, exempting them from sales tax within the tax authority's jurisdiction. When you purchase goods or services, you must provide the certificate number to your supplier to authorize them not to collect the tax.

A third party application that facilitates the calculation of taxes.

Generic term for payment instruments such as bank drafts, checks, promissory notes, and bills of exchange. Trade notes can be used instead of cash payments if credit is extended to the customer. A trade note can replace the invoice. Because trade notes are negotiable, they can also be used as a credit instrument, for example, for discounting and endorsing.

Trade notes can exist on paper and on magnetic supports, according to local business practices and banking standards.

A user-defined three-position code used to identify documents. The series linked to the transaction type give documents the sequence number.

A special form of user assistance that automates a task by setting the parameter values within a business model and which directs the software to meet the specific requirements of an organization.