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 list of all parts, raw materials, and subassemblies that go into a manufactured item and show the quantity of each of the parts required to make the item. The BOM shows the single-level product structure of a manufactured item.

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

A change document that includes a proposal for the adjustment of an actual document. The change request is copied from and linked to the actual document. Changes are applied to the actual document after the change request is approved and processed.

To group a number of purchase orders that originate from different sources, into a single purchase order. Commingling reduces the number of purchase orders and enables you to obtain the best available prices and discounts.

An item that is sold, and invoiced in combination with other items as part of a kit.

The issue from the warehouse of consigned items by or on behalf of the customer. The customer's purpose is to use these items for sale, production, and so on. After the items are issued, the customer becomes the owner of the items and the customer must pay the supplier.

An agreement of one customer with one supplier, about both commercial and logistic conditions, related to the supply of one item, during a period of time.

A field that is not automatically copied from the source order to the target order and for which you must define a copy action.

A standard set of copy exceptions based on which existing orders are copied to target orders.

An item produced on a customer specification for a specific project. A customized item can have a customized BOM and/or a customized routing and is normally not available as a standard item. A customized item can, however, be derived from a standard item or a generic item.

The price on the document line, which is the sum of the item price and the total material price.

A reference number, for example a sales order line or a project deliverable line, that is used to model deviations for a unit effective item.

A virtual item that is used to model a fixed part of a product engineering structure in Assembly Planning in Manufacturing. The product engineering structure is used to generate assembly orders for the Assembly Control module of Manufacturing.

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.

A document type or material that must be excluded from the material price calculation.

A deviation of an effective item's standard configuration. An exception indicates, for example, whether a specific BOM line or a specific routing operation is used for an effectivity unit. Exceptions are often created as a result of customer requirements, or technology upgrades.

An item that exists in multiple product variants. Before any manufacturing activities are performed on a generic item, the item must be configured to determine the desired product variant.

Example

Generic item: electric drill

Options:

• 3 power sources (batteries, 12 V or 220 V)
• 2 colors (blue, gray).

A total of 6 product variants can be produced with these options.

Generic price lists form the basis for calculating the prices for particular product variants. For each generic item from the bill of material a price is computed separately. For each operation line a constraint rule may apply.

The quantity of a material that is part of an item.

A predefined list of items to be delivered together when ordered by the customer.

You can define kits to facilitate order entry. A kit includes a list of components and is ordered and priced as a single item. On the sales order line, the components are linked. The standard cost of the kit is the sum of the components' standard cost.

Example: The components of a PC kit usually include the main cabinet, a monitor, a keyboard, and a mouse. In the Do-It-Yourself market, a toolshed kit can contain the parts for the walls and the roof, a door with hinges, a door handle, and a lock.

A way to group list items. For example, you can use an SLS list group to group list items used on sales orders. A list item can belong to different list groups.

The substance of which an item is composed, such as wood, nylon, copper, and gold.

The real price of a material from a material exchange for a specific date.

The fundamental price of a material, which is used as a basis for computing material price surcharges.

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

Example

For the item Copper Wire with Plastic Coating, the major part of the price includes the copper price. The minor part of the price includes the costs of the plastic coating and the production costs for coating the copper wire with the plastic.

If one meter of plastic coated copper wire costs $8.00, the price parts would be as follows:

• One meter of copper wire (1 kg) = $6.978
• Plastic coating = $0.422
• Production costs = $0.600

To prevent the initial price being low with only $1.022 and the (variable) material price surcharge being high with $6.978, you can specify an (approximate) material base price for copper of $6.500. As a result, the initial price is $7.522 (0.422 + 0.600 + 6.500) and the material price surcharge is $0.478 (6.978 - 6.500), which represent more realistic figures.

A global standard for industrial materials trading and price-risk management from which actual material prices are retrieved.

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

The price of a material, which can be the following:

• The material base price, if material actual prices are not applicable (yet)
• The sum of these components: material base price + material price surcharge+ material price surcharge costs, if material actual prices are applicable

A general arrangement by price list or business partner(s) and item or item group that includes the dates and preconditions used to retrieve materials and calculate material prices.

A surcharge on top of the material base price, which is calculated by subtracting the material base price from the material actual price. Because material actual prices fluctuate, material price surcharges vary.

Costs to cover for additional material costs, such as administration costs. These surcharge costs are calculated by multiplying the material price surcharge by a surcharge factor.

Example

• Material price surcharge = €0.432
• Material price surcharge factor = 1.5

The material price will be increased with material price surcharge costs of €0.648 (€0.432 * 1.5)

The identification of the options and features for a configured item. The ID is used in the item specification to match supply and demand.

An assembly that is produced as part of a manufactured item, and that can have its own routing.

A phantom is usually not held in inventory, although occasionally some inventory can exist. The planning system does not create material requirements for a phantom, but drives the requirements straight through the phantom item to its components. Phantoms are mainly defined to create a modular product structure.

Example

The door of a refrigerator is defined as a phantom item in the bill of material of a refrigerator. The materials of the door are listed on the production order's material list for the refrigerator.

An order created in Sales that forms the basis for most schedule-related processes. Planned warehouse orders, which are created during sales schedule approval, decouple schedule updates and revisions from warehouse orders. They serve as the interface between Sales on one hand and Warehousing and Invoicing on the other hand.

A unique configuration of a configurable item. The variant results from the configuration process and includes information such as feature options, components, and operations.

Example

Configurable item: electric drill

Options:

• 3 power sources (batteries, 12 V or 220 V)
• 2 colors (blue, gray).

A total of 6 product variants can be produced with these options.

The agreement with a supplier about a certain item. A purchase contract line contains both commercial and logistic conditions related to the supply of one item, during a period of time.

In case of a corporate purchase contract, the purchase contract line is a Total line, because it has linked purchase contract line details.

The lines on purchase orders that record detailed information about, for example:

• The ordered items
• The price agreements
• The delivery dates
• Shipping
• Invoicing

You can have one or more lines on a purchase order.

Indicates when billing is applicable for purchased goods and contains the payable and invoicing details for an order or schedule. By means of purchase payable receipts, updates to and from the Accounts Payable module are handled.

If the payment for the purchased goods is set to Pay on Use, the payable receipt is generated when inventory related to a purchase order or a purchase schedule is consumed, that is, issued from the warehouse. If the payment is set to Pay on Receipt, the payable receipt is generated the moment the purchased goods are received.

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 response to a request for quotation line, which includes a bidder's bid for the RFQ line. A bid offers goods or services for a certain price and terms of sale and can be considered as an offer to sell.

A purchase or sales order on which returned shipments are reported. A return order can only contain negative amounts.

A response to a request for quotation, which includes one or more response lines with bids. A bid offers goods or services for a certain price and terms of sale and can be considered as an offer to sell.

A sales order contains items that are delivered to a customer, according to certain terms and conditions. The lines of a sale order are used to record the items ordered, as well as the associated price agreements and delivery dates.

A statement of price, the terms of sale, and a description of goods or services offered by a supplier to a prospective purchaser; a bid. The customer data, payment terms, and delivery terms are contained in the header; the data about the actual items is entered on the quotation lines. When given in response to a request for quotation, a bid is usually considered an offer to sell.

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 purchased item, material, subassembly, or finished product that is normally available.

All items that are not built according to customer specification for a specific project are defined as standard items. Opposite term is customized item.

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.