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Calc

Code which identifies to the system how costs are to calculated. For work orders, costs can be calculated based on the duration entered or the start and stop times entered.

Calculate tax

Indicator for the system to calculate the tax.

Calculation key

Code which identifies to the system how costs are to calculated. For work orders, costs can be calculated based on the duration entered or the start and stop times entered.

Calculation Keys

Formulas used to calculate ordinary depreciation, special depreciation, and interest.

Call date

Date the maintenance work order or notification should be generated automatically by the system.

Call horizon

The amount of time, in advance of the due date, that the maintenance work order or notification needs to be created.

Called

Triggers the creation of a work order or notification from a maintenance plan.

Cancel dispatching due to error

Indicator used to specify that the system cancels the dispatching of an operation if it discovers an error during the date check, the availability check, or during scheduling.

Cancellation

Cancels out an original document by posting an equal but opposite document to offset the original definition. In billing, a cancellation document is a type of billing document which is used to offset an invoice.

Capacity

Equates to the hours per shift combined with the number of individual persons available to work that shift and acts as a tool for scheduling labor resources.

Capacity Category

Identifies the capacity as machine or labor.

Capacity leveling

Used to make work center load adjustments.

Capacity planner group

Key referring to the capacity planner group, which is responsible for planning the capacity.

Capacity planner grp

Key referring to the capacity planner group, which is responsible for planning the capacity.

Capacity planning

Assigning work orders to craftspeople according to their availability to complete work.

Capacity utilization

Capacity being used divided by the total capacity available.

Capacity variant

Variant of the capacity of a resource.

Capital investment program

Hierarchical structure that represents the total budgeted costs of capital investments.

Capital Work Order (PM50)

A type of work order used for minor modifications and installation work against capital accounts.

CAPP order

Key indicating that, at the time of creation, standard values are recalculated using CAPP depending on their order category.

Cash management

The evaluation of records pertaining to bank accounts and bank clearing clearing accounts for the purpose of determining statuses of funds.

Cat.

Areas to which material ledger data belong.

Cat.type

Code describing different catalogs. For example 1 = characteristic attributes, 2 = tasks, and 3 =n usage decisions.

Catalog

Collection of coded characteristics describing similar attributes such as tasks, usage decisions, or activities.

Catalog profile

Key that identifies the catalog code groups that apply to a functional location, equipment record, or assembly. The profile limits the catalog codes that can be used when processing notifications and orders.

Catalog type(s)

Code describing different catalogs. For example 1 = characteristic attributes, 2 = tasks, and 3 =n usage decisions.

Catalog type/code group

Combination field for catalog type and code group. A set of quality code groups that are entered in a particular catalog.

Category name

Name assigned to identify a category.

Cause code

Code for the damage cause from a catalog of damage causes.

Cause of damage

Code for the damage cause from a catalog of damage causes.

Cause text

Text describing the cause of the malfunction or breakdown.

CC Key

Cycle counting key.

CC phys. inv.

Cycle counting physical inventory. Method of physical inventory in which materials are counted at regular intervals during a fiscal year.

CcKey

Cycle counting key.

CCtr (new)

Represents the new cost center that is selected as a receiver object.

CCtr categories

Indicator that determines which cost center types an activity type is allowed for planning and as a sender in informal activity allocation.

CCtr(old)

Represents the old cost center that was selected as a receiver object.

CEIem category

Key identifying the assigned cost element category. The cost element category defines which cost elements can be used for which business transactions.

Cell

Used to perform calculations within a report. Cells pinpoint a particular location or range within the column - row matrix of a report.

Cert. profile

Template that establishes certain entry criteria when creating a certificate of analysis.

Certificate no.

Number identifying a certificate.

CertificateType

Key indentifying the type of certificate of analysis to be created.

Change number

Document number identifying the change record within the engineering change managment module.

Changed by

Indicates the last person to make a change in SAP to the record or document.

Changed date

Date the document was changed.

Changed object

Item or field that was changed.

Changed on

Date the change was made.

Char

In QM and MM it is a quantifiable attribute of a material. Examples of characteristics include color, odor, and texture. In reporting, it represents an underlying SAP data value such as company code, cost center, country, customer, material, etc.

Char.

Char. description

Text description of a characteristic.

Char. value

A schema used to define attributes of an entity or data object. For example, the thickness or length are characteristic values for paper.

Char.value

A schema used to define attributes of an entity or data object. For example, the thickness or length are characteristic values for paper.

Character for decimal point

Formatting for decimal point.

Characteristic

Characteristic combinations

Characteristic combinations define the valid relationships between characteristic values and for the basis for aggregation/disaggregation of key figure values. There are two ways to create the combinations: Individually, by defining a complete set of characteristic values, or Automatically, by generating combinations based on existing data present in the InfoCube.

Characteristic no.

Characteristic number. Used to identify an attribute for a material or object.

Characteristic value

A schema used to define attributes of an entity or data object. For example, the thickness or length are characteristic values for paper.

Characteristic: Location

Characteristic location.

Characteristics

Characteristics group

A user-defined group of characteristics.

Charateristics

In QM and MM it is a quantifiable attribute of a material. Examples of characteristics include color, odor, and texture. In reporting it represents an underlying SAP data value such as company code, cost center, country, customer, material, etc.

Chars group

A user-defined group of characteristics.

Chart of Accounts

A classification scheme consisting of a group of general ledger (G/L) accounts. A chart of accounts provides a framework for the recording of values, in order to ensure an orderly rendering of accounting data.

Chart of depreciation

Document containing the rules used to determine an asset value as a function of useful life remaining.

CIass

A class is a grouping of similar objects according to common characteristics.

CIass type

A description of the sort of a class.

CIient

In commercial, organizational and technical terms, a self-contained unit in an R/3 System with separate master records and its own set of tables.

City

City where the company is located.

Class type

Top-level unit of control for classes. Each class must be assigned to exactly one class type. The class type is used to define a number of parameters in the Classification System. Specifically, class type is used to form logical grouping of characteristics, such as characteristics for batch or configurable materials.

Classification

Material master record view containing data for classification such as class and characteristics. Relates to the classifying of characteristics to a particular type of functionality within SAP. In QM, process of describing objects using predefined characteristics.

Classification View

Material master record view containing data for classification such as class and characteristics. Relates to the classifying of charateristics to a particular type of functionality within SAP. In QM, process of describing objects using predefined characteristics.

Clearing

Matching credits and debits in an account and marking them as cleared items.

Clearing date

Date on which items from an account are to be marked as cleared.

Clearing document

Document created to clear open items in an account.

Close gaps

Key used to specify how the system is to deal with the situation where a gap arises in the commitment of available capacity.

Closed requisitions

Requisition for which purchase orders have been created for all items.

CM number

A company is assigned a CM number if it has operations in more than one province. The same CM number applies in all provinces. If it only has operations in one province, it is assigned an NIP number instead.

CnTy

A price-determination element in SAP, such as standard price, net price discount, gross price discount, sales tax on an order, or quantity surcharge.

Code

Identifier used to provide the system with unique information. They are used for activities, tasks, damage, and cause. They allow for quick and efficient searching.

Code group

Collection of codes that identify the same attribute (i.e., code group: color; code: red).

Code group damage

Code for the type of damage.

Code group(s)

Collection of codes that identify the same attribute (i.e., code group: color; code: red).

Code group, activity

Code for the type of damage symptoms.

Collective number

Number used to link all RFQs for a specific material or project.

Collective RFQ

Number used to link all RFQs for a specific material or project.

Column width

Distance between columns.

Comm Ptr

Customer number for the commission partner.

Committ. dat

Date for the committment.

Committed

Current quantity committed or planned for future use.

Committed qty

Quantity committed or planned for future use.

Committed quantity

Quantity committed or planned for future use.

Communication structure

The communication structure is independent of the source system and has the structure of an InfoSource. It contains all the InfoObjects that belong to an InfoSource.

Company area

Production area sub-division of a maintenance plant.

Company code

Independent accounting unit; in most cases is a legal entity. You can prepare a balance sheet and income statement for each company code. Several company codes can be set up to manage the accounts of independent companies simultaneously.

Company codes

Compl.ords

Number of maintenance orders that are completed at the time of analysis.

Complete delivery reqd by law

Indicates whether a sales order must be delivered completely in a single delivery or whether the order can be partially delivered and completed over a number of deliveries.

Component

A subdivision of an SAP module. For example, the components of the Financial Accounting (FI) module are: General Ledger (FI-GL), Accounts Receivable (FI-AR), Accounts Payable (FI-AP), Legal Consolidation (FI-LC), Financial Controlling (FI-FC), Financial Assets (FI-FA), and Funds Management (FI-FM). The components of the Controlling (CO) module include Profitability Analysis (CO-PA).

Component description

Text description of the component.

Component quantity

Quantity of the component to be allocated.

Component scrap (%)

Percentage of scrap that is always expected to occur when a component material is used in production.

Component type

Code identifying whether the material is a stock or non-stock item.

Component unit

Code for the unit of measure of the component.

Condition after Malfunction

Number identifying the condition of the equipment after the malfunction.

Condition after Task

Number identifying the condition of the equipment after work was performed to repair the malfunction.

Condition before Malfunction

Number identifying the condition of the equipment before the malfunction.

Condition granter

Granter of condition. This is the entity such as, vendor or vendor's corporate group, with which agreements are made.

Condition records

Data record that stores a condition, or condition supplements. (ie - prices, discounts, taxes, output).

Condition type

Price-determination element in SAP. Examples of condition types are standard price, net price discount, gross price discount, sales tax on an order, and quantity surcharge.

Confirmed

A communication sent to the relevant business partner upon the conclusion of a financial transaction.

Confirmed dates

The date on a document item that the system can confirm as available, after performing a check when a sales document is created or changed.

Confirmed qty

The quantity of a document item that the system can confirm as available, after performing a check when a sales document is created or changed.

Confirmed scrap

Quantity of material confirmed as scrap.

ConfirmQty

Quantity of a document items which the system can confirm as available, after carrying out a check when a sales document is created or changed.

Consgt ordered

Request by an enterprise (the ultimate purchaser) to a consignment vendor to replenish stocks of material held in consignment stores by supplying the stipulated quantity.

ConsgtStock - Quantity

Quantity of consignment stock.

Consignment

A stock of material at a plant that the vendor retains ownership of. Payment is only made when the material is withdrawn from stock.

Consignment Stock

Stock made available by vendor which is stored on the purchaser's premises but remains the vendor's property until withdrawn from stores for use or transferred to the purchaser's own valuated stock.

Consolidation

Process of incorporating the financial statements of companies within a group into a single financial statement that complies with legal requirements.

Consumable

A material used in the production process that does not become part of the finished product.

Consumption

A quantity usually updated by the system when a material is withdrawn from the warehouse or stores, indicating how much of the material has been used or consumed over a certain past period.

Consumption mode

In Material Requirements Planning and in APO, this identifies the methodology of how materials consumption with respect to a SO are used.

Container ID

The id corresponding to a piece of equipment in the Plant Maintenance (PM) application component.

Contract

Document used to define the terms of a sale agreed to by the vendor and the company. Can specify the amount of material and timeframe of the sale.

Contract end

Date the contract is completed.

Contract Number

Number assigned by SAP when a contract is created.

Contract price

Price specified in a contract.

Contract start

Date the contract begins.

Contract Type

Sales document type.

Contractor Performance

Indication of the performance of a person or organization providing services.

ContrItems

Number of items in all contracts that have been created.

Control Key

Code used to identify operational processes. Examples of operational processes include costing, scheduling, and completion confirmations.

Control Rec Dest

Process control system, process operator, or operating group to which a control recipe is transferred for processing.

Controlling area

Self-contained organizational unit for cost accounting.

Conversion ind.

Indicator in the AFS Basic data used to define the conversion of grid values in the AFS MRP list and AFS stock/requirements list.

Conversion mode

The conversion mode describes the procedure of the oil quantity calculation. It defines whether the oil quantity calculation is performed in the background or in the foreground, thus enabling manual changes.

Co-product

Valuable materials generated during a production run together with other valuable materials.

Copy from

Data to be copied when creating the new record.

Copy from: FunctLocation

The functional location that will be used as a template while creating a new one.

Copy from: Plant

The plant data that will be used as a template when creating a new functional location.

Copy from: Ref. work center

The work center that will be used as a template for creating a new work center.

Copy master data and transaction data

Master and transaction data to be copied when creating a new record.

Corrected value

Displays either the total or unplanned consumption correction value.

Corrective Maintenance

Maintenance needed to repair malfunctioning equipment; for example, a piece of rotating equipment having excessive vibration or noise.

Cost center

An area of responsibility for capturing costs.

Cost center (From)

Beginning range of cost centers to be selected.

Cost center (To)

Ending range of cost centers to be selected.

Cost center category

An attribute that determines the type of cost center.

Cost Center Group

Hierarchical grouping of cost centers created to facilitate data entry and reporting.

Cost Center Group Description

Text description of the cost center group.

Cost Center Group Name

Name used to identify a cost center group.

Cost ctr

An area of responsibility for capturing costs.

Cost elem.

Primary cost elements have a one-to-one relationship with general ledger expense accounts. Whenever costs are posted, they must be assigned to a specific cost element. Secondary cost elements, used to record internal allocations, have no counterpart in the financial accounts and are maintained exclusively in cost accounting.

Cost element

Cost element (From)

Beginning range of cost elements to be selected.

Cost element (To)

Ending range of cost elements to be selected.

Cost element group

Hierarchical grouping of cost elements created to facilitate data entry and reporting.

Cost element planning

Creating a plan based on estimated primary and secondary costs to be incurred on a cost center, order, or project.

Cost object

Cost collector in SAP providing various means to collect and manage costs. Examples of cost objects include cost centers, project work breakdown structure elements, internal orders, and maintenance work orders.

Cost of sales accounting

The measurement of transactional financial data in terms of unit sales transactions and related direct costs in support of the unit sold.

Cost schedule (Proj. def.)

Plan/Budget value of the chosen object for the period shown.

Costing data

Includes material costs, material overhead costs, production costs, and production overheads.

Costing date from

Date from which the costing estimate is valid.

Costing run

Identifies group of material costed collectively.

Costing run date

Date of the costing run.

Costing Run Name

Name used to identify a costing run.

Costing run Reference

Costing run to be referenced.

Costing run text

Text description of the costing run.

Costing variant

Identifies the cost components used when creating a cost estimate. Examples of cost components include materials, activities, labor, and overhead.

Costing version

Planning version posted to during creation of cost estimate. For example version 0 represents the initial plan and actual postings; versions 1 through 999 represent alternative plan values.

Costs

Value of use of economic goods both tangible and intangible for the creation and sale of goods and services, as well as the acquisition and maintenance of plant and machinery.

Count date

Date of the physical inventory.

Counted quantity

Quantity counted during the physical inventory.

Country

Country name.

County

Region or geographical area.

CRD

Key which identifies a control recipe destination within a plant.

Create MRP Iist

Indicator used within MRP to designate that an MRP list is to be created based on planned orders.

Create purchase req.

Create purchase requisition. Indicator used within MRP to designate that purchase requisitions are to be created automatically based on the planned orders.

Create variant

Selection that indicates the system should create a variant.

Created

Date that a report or query was created.

Created by

Initials of user who created the report or query.

Created on

Date the document was created.

Credit

Total of the credit postings for the month.

Credit account

Customer account number.

Credit control area

Organizational unit used to centrally control credit.

Credit ctrl area

Credit control area. Organizational unit used to centrally control credit.

Credit memo qty

Quantity of goods being processed with a credit memo.

Credit memos

Posting that reduces the balance of receivables or payables.

Credit representative group

A customer can be allocated to a credit representative group for credit control. This credit representative group is copied into the order and can be used as a selection criterion for evaluations and release functions.

CredMemos cost

Stock value of credit memos.

Critical parts

A flag on the material master used to indicate that the material is important. Serves as information only except for Inventory Sampling where these materials will be included in the complete-count area.

CShpIn1

Vendor's score for compliance with shipping instructions in the current period. The current period can be a day, week, or month.

CShpIn2

Vendor's cumulative and smoothed score for compliance with shipping instructions for all periods included in the analysis.

CTM Profile

Provides access to the CTM control panel and contains all settings necessary for a CTM planning run. Use the CTM profile to determine which version to use for simulation purposes, and to establish specific CTM settings, including the choice of planning strategies.

CTM Profile name

Name assigned to identify a CTM Profile.

CTyp

Category of certificate of analysis. Examples of categories include: certificates of analysis, certificates of compliance, and certificates of conformancy.

Currency

Monetary unit. The currency of the entity processing transactions.

Currency/rate

The rate of the currency as updated in the currency table.

Current stock value

Current value of the total quantity of a material held in stock under a certain material number and belonging to the company holding it.

Cust material

Identifier a customer prefers to use for a material when they don't use the material number assigned by SAP. SAP uses the customer material value to map to the correct material master number.

Cust. material

Identifier a customer prefers to use for a material when they don't use the material number assigned by SAP. SAP uses the customer material value to map to the correct material master number.

Cust.material

Identifier a customer prefers to use for a material when they don't use the material number assigned by SAP. SAP uses the customer material value to map to the correct material master number.

Cust.pric.proc.

Process used to accumulate balances in an account, for example, in support of rebates.

Cust.stats.grp

Customer status group.

Customer

SAP code that identifies a customer. A customer is a business partner who orders goods and services.

Customer credit group

Freely definable grouping term.

Customer description

Text that describes a customer.

Customer group

A group of customers that purchase our products for similar reasons or are in similar businesses.

Customer material

Identifier a customer prefers to use for a material when they don't use the material number assigned by SAP. SAP uses the customer material value to map to the correct material master number.

Customer price proc.

Defines the pricing rules for a certain sales document and the order and manner in which the rules are applied.

Customer purchase order number

Numeric identifier assigned to purchase order.

Cycl.length

Cycle length. Number that identifies how many time units are in the maintenance package.

Cycle

Header information relevant to distributions and assessments that groups allocation segments and identifies version number, currency information, date information, and controlling area.

Cycle modification factor

Factor by which the cycle length for the maintenance plan is increased or decreased.

Cycle ShrtTxt

Short text that describes a cycle.

Cycle/Unit

Unit of measurement associated with a cycle.

CycModifFactor

Cycle modification factor is the factor by which scheduling cycle can be increased or decreased.