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Backflush qty

Amount of materials consumed based on actual production and the bill of materials.

Backflushing

Non-manual posting of an issue of components some time after their actual physical withdrawal for an order.

Backlog work center

Designates the person or crew who is responsible for processing a PM work order; referred to as the main work center in SAP.

Backorder

Sales document whose items cannot be confirmed due to availability.

Balance

Balance of debits and credits for the specified period.

Bank transfer

Electronic transfer of funds between bank accounts.

Bas. Start

Basic start.

Base quantity

Quantity of material referenced by the standard values.

Base sample quantity

Quantity of material referenced by the standard values.

Base unit

Unit of measure in which the stock of a material is managed.

Base unit of meas.

Base unit of measure. Unit of measure in which the stock of a material is managed.

Base unit of measure

Unit of measure in which the stock of a material is managed.

Baseline date

Baseline Date. Date from which the system calculates the payment due date, based on the terms given.

BaselineDt.

Baseline Date. Date from which the system calculates the payment due date, based on the terms given.

Basic data

Material master record view containing data common to all parts of the organization such as the material number and description.

Basic dates

Dates used to schedule activities assigned to WBS elements.

Basic fin.

Date when the notification was finished, malfunction was corrected, or maintenance work was completed.

Batch

Number that uniquely assigns a material manufactured in a lot. The batch material is managed separately from other sets of the same material. Also, used to describe the running of multiple non-manual transactions in SAP.

Batch / Valuation type

Code that uniquely identifies separately valuated batches of a material.

Batch management

A function that allows partial quantities of a material handled in batches to be managed separately in stock.

Batch Number

Number identifying a unique roll, bale, or pallet.

Batch split allowed

Indicates that customer accepts multiple batches per item.

Batch status

An indication of the usability of a batch. A batch can be either usable or non-usable.

Beta

Beta Factor; Smoothing factor for the trend value.

Bill of lading

Tansportation contract that governs movement of freight by a common carrier.

Bill to

Customer who receives the invoices.

BillBlkDes

Code that identifies that the sales document is blocked for billing.

Billing

The activity of issuing an invoice after goods have been issued and/or shipped to the customer.

Billing adjustment

Credit or debit to a billing document.

Billing block

Code identifying if the sales document is blocked for billing.

Billing block header

Header level code identifying if the sales document is blocked for billing.

Billing date

Date of customer billing.

Billing date from

The billing date from which the system begins the selection of documents.

Billing date to

The billing date from which the system ends the selection of documents.

Billing docs from / To

Date range in which the system begins and ends the selection of billing documents.

Billing document

A general term for invoices, credit memos, debit memos, and cancellation documents. A billing document consists of a document header, which contains of data that applies to the whole document, and of one or more line items.

Billing run

The process of collectively creating billing documents with reference to the billing due list.

Billing run note

Note created in the billing log that identifies errors that occurred that prevented the billing document from being created.

Billing type

Type of billing document as defined by the system. The type controls how invoices, credit memos, debit memos, and cancellation documents are processed.

Bills of material

List spare components.

Bill-to

Person or company that receives the invoice for a delivery or service.

Bill-to customer

Person or company that receives the invoice for a delivery or service.

Bill-to party

Individual or company that receives invoice for goods or sevice provided.

Birth date

The person's date of birth.

Blk

Block

Blk reason

Block reason. Explanation on why something is being blocked from further processing.

Blk.reason

Explanation on why something is being blocked from further processing.

Block

Item is stopped from further processing until certain conditions exist.

Blocked

Indicates that item is blocked from further processing until certain conditions exist.

Blocked order

Order that has been stopped from further processing until the block is removed.

Blocking reason: date

Document is blocked for processing for a reason tied to the date.

Blocking reason: item amount

Document is blocked for processing for a reason tied to the item amount.

Blocking reason: OPQ

Document is blocked for processing for a reason tied to OPQ.

Blocking reason: price

Document is blocked for processing for a reason tied to the price.

Blocking reason: qty

Document is blocked for processing for a reason tied to quantity of the material.

Blocking reason: quality

Document is blocked for processing for a reason tied to quality of the material.

BOM application

Procedure to automatically explode the BOM for a specific section of a company (such as sales and distribution).

BOM group

Allows the system to link BOMs together for functional location, equipment, or materials. Materials can be linked together even though the materials within each BOM are not exactly alike.

BOM text

Text description of a BOM.

BOM usage

Code that identifies how the BOM is to be used. For example: sales BOMs, equipment BOMs, engineering BOMs, manufacturing BOMs, and costing BOMs.

BOp

Number of the branch operation.

Break

Break time available to the employee during the operation.

BrkdnReptd

Number of breakdowns of a technical object that have been recorded.

Bucket capacity

The capacity of a time period in APO.

Budget

Used to designate allowable spending limits to organizational structures for a set period of time. Budgeting is a top-down process usually following the bottom-up planning process. For example, budgets can be created for each cost center and used to set periodic benchmarks to compare with actual cost center results.

Budgeting

Allocating funds to an activity (such as a project) over a given period of time. Budgeting is normally a top-down distribution of funds. See Planning.

Building Number

Number on a building in a customer or vendor address.

Bulk material

Code to indicate that the material is a bulk material and is likely stored in bulk storage rather than a specific bin location.

BUn

Base unit of measure in which stocks of the material are managed

Business

Business unit or division for which an internal balance sheet and profit and loss statement can be prepared.

Business Explorer

Business Explorer can be used to do reporting in Demand Planning.

Business Explorer Analyzer

Using MultiCubes, it is also possible to report on planned data in APO and actual data in a BW system.

Business navigator

Tool used by the SAP R/3 system to present the R/3 Reference Model. This tool is a standard piece of SAP. Some material contained in the R/3 Reference Model is displayed in the form of diagrams and some in the form of lists.