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

A hierarchical structure that organizes and defines the total scope of the project. Each level represents an increasingly detailed definition of a work project. In contrast to the element structure, the activity structure is activity time oriented.

User-defined fields of various field formats that can be added to various sessions, in which users can edit these fields. No functional logic is linked to the contents of these fields.

Additional information fields can be linked to database tables. When linked to a table, the fields are displayed in the sessions corresponding to the database tables. For example, a field defined for the whinh200 table is displayed as an extra field in the Warehousing Orders (whinh2100m000) session.

The contents of additional fields can be transferred between database tables. For example, the information specified by a user in additional information field A of the Warehousing Orders (whinh2100m000) session is transferred to additional information field A in the Shipments (whinh4130m000) session. For this purpose, additional information fields with identical field formats and field name A must be present for the whinh200 and the whinh430 tables (whinh430 corresponds to the Shipments (whinh4130m000) session).

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.

The actually built structure of a product including the serial numbers.

The automatic issue of materials from inventory, or accounting for the hours spent manufacturing an item, based on theoretical usage and the quantity of the item reported as complete.

An unfilled customer order, or partial delivery at a later date. A demand for an item whose inventory is insufficient to satisfy demand.

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 warehousing order that is generated during the creation of a push schedule or a production schedule and that contains:

• A position number and sequence number of zero.
• An item as defined on the purchase schedule or production schedule.
• An order quantity equal to the quantity as defined on the purchase contract line. If based on a production schedule, the order quantity of the blanket order is based on the quantity specified in the Transfer Quantity field of the Work List (tirpt4602m000) session.
• An empty planned delivery date and planned receipt date.
• A lot selection defined as Any.

1) A commercial cost estimate in the preproduction stage of projects. 2) A plan that includes an estimate of future costs and revenues related to expected activities.

The reason that can be assigned to a changed purchase document (line) or sales document (line).

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.

The only type of activity that can be linked to an organization breakdown structure. At this level functional responsibility for work and costs can be assigned. You can detail short-span jobs in control accounts and use it for the execution of a project.

The method that LN uses to control project costs.

Cost control involves:

• Recording actual costs against the expected costs entered in the budget.
• Reporting on any differences between budget, forecast, recorded costs and progress. If an element or activity uses cost control, the expected costs of the individual element as entered in the project budget are carried over to the control budget. If an element or activity does not use cost control, its budgeted costs are aggregated to the next, higher-level element in the budget structure for which cost control is applied.

Are used to break up and redirect costs related to a project, to project pegs that are linked to specific attributes, such as items, item groups, or work centers. The project costs are no longer linked only to the top demand project peg, but are spread over lower level pegs for the specified attributes (breaks), which improves project management.

An item supplied by the customer being used as material in the production of an end-item for that same customer.

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.

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 multilevel, multiparent, hierarchical tree-like structure of elements that can be the basis of a budget.

A way to distinguish project elements. A project with a Progress Invoice invoicing method can contain two types of elements: direct and indirect. If the progress is more than 100%, direct elements can have more than 100% progress. Indirect elements can never have more than 100% progress.

Inventory for which no demand is present. For example, excess inventory can result from fixed order quantities, when the received quantity exceeds the present demand.

Excess inventory can be:

• On hand

  Physically present in the warehouse

• On order

  Present on planned or scheduled receipts

A license required by the authorities before selling and/or shipping of items (high-tech, classified or potentially dangerous) which are regulated by law. Items requiring this license have restrictions applied to them in Enterprise Planning. Supply for export license required items or items containing an export licensed item can only be commingled with supply for the same project. Similar restrictions exist for cost transfer rules.

A method to calculate the inventory value.

The inventory is valued at either its standard cost or its actual receipt price. Because inventory value can change with time, the age of inventory needs to be noted. In LN, the following inventory valuation methods are available:

Valuation Method

The entire production process of an item is outsourced to a subcontractor.

An inventory valuation method for accounting purposes.

The MAUC is the average value for each unit of the current inventory. For each new receipt the MAUC is updated.

A BOM that lists the subcomponents of the components, and any eventual subcomponents.

In the multilevel BOM, the final product is at level zero.

The work on one or more operations in an item's production process is outsourced to a subcontractor.

Used by a sales person to record and monitor sales information related to a business partner with the purpose of selling a product or service to this business partner.

Generic term to indicate parent and child elements in any multilevel structure. For example, this relationship is used for companies, financial accounts, dimensions, product families, customers, suppliers.

A combination of project/budget, element and/or activity, which is used to identify costs, demand, and supply for a project.

An order in Enterprise Planning for an internal supplier or sister company to deliver a quantity of an item.

The expected changes in the inventory levels due to planned orders for items.

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 planning group is used for segregation in planning for project specific demand and supply. Commingling rules and cost transfer rules can be defined at planning group level to control supply planning behavior of project pegged items within the planning group as well as with other planning groups.

An endeavor with a specific objective to be met within the prescribed time and financial limitation, and that has been assigned for definition or execution.

Identifies purchasable items. A purchase catalog is defined as a main category and as a purchase category.

A list of time-phased requirements, generated by a central planning system, such as Enterprise Planning or Project, that are sent to the supplier. Push schedules contain both a forecast for the longer term and actual orders for the short term.

A push schedule can use one of the following release types:

• Material Release: only material releases are sent. Shipping is performed based on the Firm and Immediate requirements in the material release.
• Shipping Schedule: both material releases and shipping schedules are sent. Shipping is carried out based on the Firm and Immediate requirements in the shipping schedule. The material release only sends forecasting data.
• Shipping Schedule Only: only shipping schedules are sent. Shipping is carried out based on the Firm and Immediate requirements in the shipping schedule. No forecasting data is sent to the supplier.

A user-defined standardized description of the reason for a particular decision or choice. A reason's type determines for which purpose you can use that reason.

To include additional information about an action, you can select and enter a reason from a list. LN can also print the reason in the relevant report.

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.

For a given contract, revenue recognition is the process that leads to the calculation (and subsequent posting to the General Ledger) of the total revenue that is estimated to have been earned, on the basis of the progress of the contract.

The buffer inventory necessary to meet fluctuations in demand and delivery lead time. In general, safety stock is a quantity of inventory planned to be in inventory to protect against fluctuations in demand or supply. In the context of master production scheduling, safety stock is the additional inventory and capacity planned as protection against forecast errors and short-term changes in the backlog.

An intermediary product in a production process that is not stored or sold as an end product, but that is passed on to the next operation.

For subcontracting purposes, a manufacturer can send a subassembly to a subcontractor to carry out work on the subassembly. This subassembly has its own item code defined in the Item Base Data.

After work is finished, the subcontractor sends the subassembly back to the manufacturer. Also this reworked subassembly has its own item code defined in the Item Base Data.

Allowing another company (the subcontractor) to carry out work on an item. This work can concern the entire production process, or only one or more operations in the production process.

An extra unit in which the quantity of goods must be reported for the EU Intrastat declaration. The main reporting unit is kilogram in all cases. For some goods, a reporting unit must be used such as pairs (of shoes and so on), liters, head or pieces (for cattle), or square meters. Quantities of goods to which kilograms do not apply are only reported in the supplementary unit.

A distribution link between a supplying planning cluster and a receiving planning cluster. The planning clusters involved can be in the same company, or in different companies.

Enterprise Planning uses supplying relationships for distribution planning: the supplying relationships represent valid supply paths for particular items or groups of items. You can specify supplying relationships at the level of individual items, but also at more general levels.

The supplying relationships also determine the costs of supply, lot size rules, and other parameters.

A warehousing order to move an item between warehouses.

A warehouse transfer consists of a warehousing order of inventory transaction type Transfer.

A type of activity. You can detail short-span jobs in work packages and use it for the execution of a project.