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 work center of the type Costing that is used to determine the enterprise unit for a project, or production order and also has an administrative function.

Categories that are used to register the type of costs. Cost types enable you to have a more detailed view of the source of costs.

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 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.

Part of an LN database in which you can store all data concerning financial transactions.

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 warehouse with warehouse type Financial. A financial warehouse is used to show the inventory levels and enable financial processing of owned inventory that is actually stored in a physical, that is, "real," warehouse belonging to another business unit or branch office within the same organization. The owning unit and the unit storing the inventory have their own p & l accountability.

A "from and to" relationship between two parts of an organization. When an intercompany trade relationship is defined, the transactions between the from and the to-part of the relationship are regarded as intercompany trade. Consequently, specific cost and revenue bookings are posted for the from and the to-part.

The from-part incurs costs for goods delivered or services rendered to the to-part. The to-part is indebted to the from-part. The from-part invoices the to-part to be compensated for the costs incurred, if specified in the intercompany trade agreement.

The parts constituting an intercompany trade relationship can be:

• A financial company
• An enterprise unit
• An entity

A trade relationship between two parts applies to the underlying entities linked to these parts. For example, a trade relationship between two enterprise units applies to the entities linked to these enterprise units.

An intercompany trade relationship is linked to one or more intercompany trade agreements. In turn, each intercompany trade agreement is linked to an intercompany trade scenario. In this way, transfer pricing rules are defined for each trade scenario that is linked to the trade relationship. The transfer pricing rules determine the amounts of the intercompany trade transactions and, if specified, the internal invoices.

A group of items with similar characteristics. Each item belongs to a particular item group. The item group is used in combination with the item type to set up item defaults.

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.

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.

The number of machines of a machine type in a work center and its logistical and planning properties.

The definition of the machine at company level. For example: A Haas turning lathe ST30.

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 item with the order system Planned.

The production, distribution, or purchase of these items is planned in Enterprise Planning based on the forecast or the actual demand.

You can plan these items by means of the following:

• Master-based planning, which is similar to master production scheduling techniques.
• Order-based planning, which is similar to material-requirements planning techniques.
• A combination of master-based planning and order-based planning.

Plan items can be one of the following:

• An actual manufactured or purchased item.
• A product family.
• A basic model, that is, a defined product variant of a generic item.

A group of similar plan items or families is called a product family. The items are aggregated to give a more general plan than the one devised for individual items. A code displayed by the item code's cluster segment shows that the plan item is a clustered item that is used for distribution planning.

A planned order in Enterprise Planning to purchase a certain quantity of an item from a supplier (buy-from business partner).

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.

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.

An item that is purchased, subcontracted, manufactured, or assembled.

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 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 operation is an activity performed by a machine. A list of reference operations is a library of available operations for job shop production orders.

A reference operation may be defined on multiple levels:

• Operation Code

  The reference operation can be executed on all sites, in all work centers and on all machines linked to the company.

• Operation Code + Machine Type

  The reference operation can be executed on all sites that have one or more machines of the specified machine type.

• Operation Code + Site

  The reference operation can be used in all work centers and all machines linked to the specified site. Note: Recommended if a site has its own setup logic for specific operations. This type of reference operation can be used in a work center without machines.

• Operation Code + Machine Type + Site

  The reference operation can be used on all machines of a specific machine type and in all work centers and all sites which have the machine type present. Note: Recommended if the machine type has its own setup for specific operations.

• Operation Code + Site + Work Center

  The reference operation can be used for specific work center and site combination. Note: this operation can only for work centers without machines.

• Reference Operation + Machine Type + Site + Work Center

  The reference operation can only be used for one specific machine type on one work center/site combination.

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

The sequence of operations required to manufacture an item.

For each operation, the reference operation, machine, and work center are specified, as well as information about setup time and cycle time.

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.

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 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).

An activity to manufacture or repair an item. For example, sawing, drilling, or painting.

A task is carried out on a work center, and can be related to a machine.

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

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.