A department that a financial company uses to group financial data on a more detailed level than by enterprise unit.

You can typically use accounting offices to group the following types of financial data:

• Manually entered sales invoices
• Trade notes
• Business partner financial data

You can link an accounting office to several business partner roles.

A set of consecutive line stations in which FAS (Final Assembly Schedule) items are manufactured. The items are manufactured by passing the items from line station to line station and by carrying out operations at each line station. An assembly line is subdivided into a number of line segments separated by buffers. An assembly line can be either a main line or a supplying line.

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

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.

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.

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 separate and independent building block for a planning cluster, site, or enterprise unit. For example, warehouse, work center, employee, sales department, purchase department, project, customer, supplier, financial company.

A company that is used for posting financial data in Financials. You can link one or more enterprise units from multiple logistic companies to one financial company.

A work center that is part of an assembly line. A line station is used in the production of FAS (final assembly schedule) items. A line station can have multiple positions, which enables more than one item to be present in one line station.

The physical location that is associated with the data or transaction, such as a warehouse, production facility, city, or country.

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

An LN company used for logistic transactions, such as the production and transportation of goods. All the logistic data concerning the transactions is stored in the company's database.

In LN, a mechanical object on which operations can be carried out to produce items.

Machines are linked to operation rates. The operation rate and the labor rate together form the basis for the actual costing of production orders.

Refers to the management of multiple sites within a single (logistic) company.

In a multicompany structure, which includes several companies, multisite applies to each of the logistic companies.

An object used to group warehouses for which the inbound and outbound flow of goods and materials is planned collectively. For this purpose, the demand and supply of the warehouses of the planning cluster is aggregated. Within a planning cluster one supply source is used, such as production, purchasing or distribution.

If multisite is implemented, a planning cluster must include one or more sites. The site or sites include the warehouses for which the planning processes are performed. A site is linked to one planning cluster.

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

An order to produce a specified quantity of an item on a specified delivery date.

You can use the project management office (PMO) to group projects by department or to link employees to the department.

A department in your organization that is responsible for buying the materials and services required by your organization. You assign number groups to the purchase office.

An agreement that indicates which items are delivered by a buy-from business partner according to certain terms and conditions.

A purchase order contains:

• A header with general order data, buy-from business partner data, payment terms, and delivery terms
• One or more order lines with more detailed information about the actual items to be delivered

A repair cell is a dedicated work cell linked to a production model.

A department that is identified in the company business model to manage the business partner's sales relations. The sales office is used to identify the locations that are responsible for the organization's sales activities.

An agreement that is used to sell items or services to a business partner according to certain terms and conditions. A sales order consists of a header and one or more order lines.

The general order data such as business partner data, payment terms, and delivery terms are stored in the header. The data about the actual items to be supplied, such as price agreements and delivery dates, is entered on the order lines.

A department clearly identified within the company business model to manage the services provided to a customer. The service office is used to identify the locations that are responsible for the service activities within the organization.

A department that is responsible for the organization of transportation for one or more warehouses. When goods are moved from or to a warehouse, the responsible shipping office plans the transportation of these goods or subcontracts the transportation of the goods. In direct delivery scenarios, the shipping office provides planning or transport subcontracting services for external suppliers or customers.

In Freight, a shipping office plays a key role in load building and freight order clustering. Freight orders are grouped by shipping office. The groups of freight orders by shipping office are used by the load building engine to build shipments and loads, or by the freight order clustering engine to build freight order clusters.

A business location of an enterprise that can maintain its own logistical data. It includes a collection of warehouses, departments and assembly lines at the same location. Sites are used to model the supply chain in a multisite environment.

These restrictions apply to sites:

• A site cannot cross countries. The warehouses and departments of the site must be in the same country as the site.
• A site is linked to one planning cluster. Consequently, all warehouses and work centers of a site must belong to the same planning cluster.
• A site is linked to one logistic company.

You can link a site to an enterprise unit or an enterprise unit to a site.

If an enterprise unit is linked to a site, the entities of the site belong to the enterprise unit. Conversely, if a site is linked to an enterprise unit, the entities of the enterprise unit belong to the site.

The business partner who orders goods or services from your organization, who owns the configurations you maintain, or for whom you perform a project. Usually a customer's purchase department.

The agreement with the sold-to business partner can include:

• Default price and discount agreements
• Sales order defaults
• Delivery terms
• The related ship-to and invoice-to business partner

The sum of the following item costs as calculated by the standard cost calculation code:

• Material costs
• Operational costs
• Surcharges

Prices that are calculated against other price simulation codes are simulated prices. The standard cost is used for simulation purposes and in transactions when no actual price is available.

Standard cost is also an inventory valuation method for accounting purposes.

A reference to an LN package, such as Manufacturing or Warehousing. For example, items by subentity refer to sessions such as Items - Planning (cprpd1100m000), or Item Data by Warehouse (whwmd2510m000). Similarly, site by subentity refers to site data by LN package, which is available in sessions such as Warehousing Settings by Site (whwmd2101m000) or Production Settings by Site (timfc0180m000).

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

All actions related to the receipt, storage, treatment, and issuing of goods within a warehouse.

The Warehousing package coordinates all transactions of goods in the warehouses by using warehousing orders. This relates to inbound and outbound of goods, transfer of goods, cycle counting of goods, ABC analysis, inventory commitments, and various kinds of inventory reporting.

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 production unit consisting of one or more work stations in a fixed sequence.

A work cell is used in repetitive manufacturing for the production of a repetitive item.

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.