A full set of address-related details, which include the postal address, access to telephone, fax, telex numbers, and email, Internet address, identification for taxation purposes, and routing information.

A task for which hours lines are defined. For example, a weekly recurrent meeting.

An indication of the type of activity for which a resource is available. With availability types, you can define multiple sets of working times for a single calendar.

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.

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

A party with whom you carry out business transactions, for example, a customer or a supplier. You can also define departments within your organization that act as customers or suppliers to your own department as business partners.

The business partner definition includes:

• The organization's name and main address.
• The language and currency used.
• Taxation and legal identification data.

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

A set of definitions, that are used to build a list of calendar working hours. A calendar is identified by a calendar code and availability type combination.

A list of workable days, that is used to build a calendar.

The horizontal lines in a calendar table, which group planning data by date.

The percentage of the available production capacity that is the basis for work center utilization views and reports. For example, if a work center's working times are 06:00 - 16:00 (10 hours), the effectivity factor is 1.0 and the capacity percentage is 80%. 8 hours of production order execution corresponds with a capacity utilization of 100%.

The default capacity percentage is 100%.

The number of hours that a resource is used for production.

Alternatively, a percentage indicating the capacity use as a proportion of the total available capacity.

The amount of money to be paid to an employee (sales representative) or buy-from business partner (agent) for closing a sales order.

A working environment in which you can carry out logistic or financial transactions. All the transaction data is stored in the company's database.

Depending on the type of data that the company controls, the company is:

• A logistic company.
• A financial company.
• A logistic and a financial company.

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

In this period project-related costs and revenues are booked.

A company's organizational unit that carries out a specific set of tasks, for example, a sales office or a purchase office. Departments are assigned number groups for the orders they issue. The department's enterprise unit determines the financial company to which the financial transactions that the department generates are posted.

In LN, the date that a payment or receipt is required.

A variable that LN uses to take into account differences in the daily availability of a resource, such as when working overtime, hiring extra staff, or working in different shifts. For example, if an employee works six hours out of a possible eight hours on a project, the efficiency factor is 0.75.

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

A person who works at your company who has a specific function such as sales representative, production planner, buyer, or credit analyst.

A financially independent part of your organization that includes entities such as departments, work centers, warehouses, and projects. The enterprise unit's entities must all belong to the same logistic company, but a logistic company can contain multiple enterprise units. An enterprise unit is linked to a single financial company.

When you carry out logistic transactions between enterprise units, the resulting financial transactions are posted to the financial companies to which each enterprise unit is linked.

A schedule of recurring fixed delivery moments.

Enterprise Planning uses calendar recurrences to create fixed delivery patterns.

A set of serialized items that have the same location and are owned by the same business partner. Grouping serialized items into an installation group enables you to maintain them collectively.

The time between the production start date and the delivery date. The lead time can include order preparation time, transportation time, and inspection time.

A template that specifies the structure of an identification code. A mask is used to generate the identifiers for objects such as serial numbers, handling units, or shifts.

A schedule on which forecasted information is provided about shipping times, delivery times, and quantities.

In general, a material release can be considered as a planning release. However, the material release can also contain the actual order.

Time worked beyond the regular working hours.

You can use overtime for the following purposes:

• For maintenance activities on objects not available for maintenance during regular working hours.
• To increase production capacity.

A calendar linked to a child calendar, one level higher in the derivation hierarchy, and from which the child calendar inherits the properties.

A scheme on which you can define the day of the week, day of the month, or day of the year, and the time of the day you want an activity, such as a release or a delivery, to be carried out.

The code used to identify the pattern for your activities. The pattern defines the date and time, such as the month or the day of the month, on which you want to carry out the activity.

A particular time on a particular date, defined by using patterns, times of day, and exceptions.

Periods divide a year into regular intervals, such as weeks, months, or quarters, that can be used for statistical, hours accounting, planning, and cost controlling purposes.

A table that consists of any number of time units, for example, months or weeks.

A period is used to define the time horizon during which, for example, a schedule is valid.

The date for which delivery of a shipment is planned.

A supply order in Enterprise Planning that is created for planning purposes, but which is not an actual order yet.

Enterprise Planning works with planned orders of the following types:

• planned production order
• planned purchase order
• planned distribution order

Planned orders are generated in the context of a particular scenario. The planned orders of the actual scenario can be transferred to the execution level, where they become actual supply orders.

The date on which the goods are expected to arrive in the destination warehouse.

The physical location in the work cell where materials are stored before use. The point of usage is defined as a shop floor warehouse.

A group of production resources, work centers and work cells, physically related to each other. For example, a production hall is a production department.

A predefined configuration that specifies the production method, list of materials, time and capacity required and reporting method.

A production model contains the following:

• Production process
• Time and capacity required
• Production process reporting
• Materials supply process
• Item inspection method
• Required tools

If the Multi-Product Production check box on a production model for repetitive manufacturing is selected, a list of products is added to the production model that specifies which items are produced.

A period of time in which product is manufactured in the Repetitive Manufacturing module for a specific reason and linked to a cost document. The period length can be defined by the user.

Purchased goods that are received, inspected (if required), and posted to inventory are placed on a purchase invoice. You must pay the buy-from business partner for the quantity on the invoice.

The buy-from business partner, order, item data, prices, and discounts are printed on the invoice. You can compare the data on the invoice to the invoice you receive from the buy-from business partner.

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.

The amount of money to be paid to a sold-to business partner as a kind of discount for closing a sales order.

A set of recurring dates for which exceptions are defined per calendar code/ availability type combination.

Example

Every last Friday of the month is a non-working day. This exception is used in the Update Calendar Working Hours (tcccp0226m000) session to generate calendar working hours.

A repetition of dates, such as “Biweekly on Mondays and Fridays”, “The 27th of each month”, or “The first Monday in June of every 5th year”.

An item with the default source Repetitive that are created based on a predefined configuration.

Items best suited for repetitive manufacture are:

• Standard items
• Low costing
• Have minimal variants
• Are complex
• The bill of material (BOM) is flat.

Both end items as sub-assemblies can be manufactured using repetitive manufacturing.

A bill that relates to the sale of goods or services. A sales invoice is a document, sent by the seller to the buyer, for each sale containing details on the goods sold.

The identification of an overall planning solution.

Each scenario represents one overall planning solution, and involves particular settings for the planning of items and resources. You can use scenarios to analyze and compare various planning options and to find the best planning solution. For example, you can vary demand forecasts or sourcing strategies.

One of the scenarios is the actual scenario, which corresponds with the actual planning situation. You can only transfer planned orders and production plans from the actual scenario to the execution level of LN.

The date and time, calculated by the issue pattern, which, for non-referenced schedules, is used to define the moment at which:

• Schedule lines are clustered.
• A purchase release is sent.

A department that consists of one or more persons and/or machines with identical capabilities, that can be considered as one unit for the purposes of service and maintenance planning.

The production work force can be organized in shifts. The most common models are one, two or three shifts models, but more complicated models are possible with different shift divisions planned for various days of the week.

A shift has the following properties:

• An unique key that identifies it.
• The key is generated based on a mask.
• The start and end dates and times are specified.
• The shift net time is specified.

A schedule on which detailed information is given about shipping times or delivery times and quantities. A shipping schedule facilitates just-in-time (JIT) management.

A way to group employees for planning and authorization purposes. If you assign roles to a team, all the employees assigned to the team have the authorizations that correspond to the roles.

An inventory management method according to which the supplier usually manages the inventory of his customer or subcontractor. Sometimes, the supplier manages the supply planning as well. Alternatively, the customer manages the inventory but the supplier is responsible for supply planning. Inventory management or inventory planning can also be subcontracted to a logistics service provider (LSP).

The supplier or the customer may own the inventory delivered by the supplier. Often, the ownership of the inventory changes from the supplier to the customer when the customer consumes the inventory, but other ownership transfer moments occur, which are laid down by contract.

Vendor-managed inventory reduces internal costs associated with planning and procuring materials and enables the vendor to better manage his inventory through higher visibility to the supply chain.

A place for storing goods. For each warehouse, you can enter address data and data relating to its type.

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.

A specific production area consisting of one or more people and/or machines with identical capabilities, that can be considered as one unit for purposes of the capacity requirement planning and detailed scheduling.

A type of time interval such as Monday morning, Wednesday afternoon, or service weekend. For a working hours type, you can define defaults for start time and end time.

The seven days of the week, for which the available and non-available hours are defined.