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P

Plant.

P&L statmt acct type

Indicates G/L account is a profit & loss account in the G/L master record.

P.O. Box

Post Office Box.

P/A qty dev.

Planned versus actual quantity deviation. Difference (deviation) between planned quantity of production and goods receipt quantity.

Package description

Brief description of the maintenance package.

Packages

The planned stages of regular maintenance according to the selected strategy.

Paper requisition

A requisition created external to SAP for manual processing and eventual use in the manual creation of a purchase order in SAP.

Parameter

Data required to execute an object method (import parameters) or returned by the method after it is called (export parameters).

Parked document

A document that is not ready for posting for some reason, i.e. not complete or needs supervisory approval, and is stored in the system.

Part. div.

Partial delivery. A quantity of goods received that is smaller than the quantity ordered less the under delivery tolerance.

Part.dlv./item

Indicator used to specify whether the customer requires full or partial delivery for the item.

PartF

Partner Function. Key which defines the rights and responsibilities of each partner in a business transaction.

Partial delivery per item

Indicator used to specify whether the customer requires full or partial delivery for the item.

Partially ordered requisitions

Requisition for which purchase orders have been created for only some items.

Partn.funct.

Role business partner performs in order-to-cash process. For example, ship-to, bill-to, payer, etc.

Partner

Entity with which a business relationship exists.

Partner Function

Role business partner performs in order-to-cash process. For example, ship-to, bill-to, payer, etc.

Partner Number

Number assigned by SAP to each Partner.

Partner type

Classifies the partner functions. The partner type controls the type of master records in Customizing, in which a partner can be created.

Partners

Entity with which a business relationship exists.

PartnFunct.

Role business partner performs in order-to-cash process. For example, ship-to, bill-to, payer, etc.

Payer

Customer account number of the party that receives and pays the invoices.

Paym.guar.proc.

A method of assuring that an organization receives payment for products or services it sells or leases.

Payment method

Code identifying the method by which the customer will pay for the order, using the automatic payment transactions.

Payment proposal

A list of the open items proposed for payment by the system in the automatic payment program.

Payment run

Posts the payments related to the selected open items from the payment proposal. The payment run updates the account balances.

Payment terms

Terms agreed with a customer or vendor that apply to the clearing of goods supplied or services rendered.

Payment tolerance

Rules for processing payment differences. These rules specify the maximum permissible difference between the actual payment amount and the amount agreed for payment, as well as rules for posting residual items (in the case of these maximum amounts being exceeded).

Per

Each.

Per. unit price

The price of an item per unit.

Period

Unit that subdivides a fiscal year.

Period Category

Grouping of accounting periods that share the same requirements for data collection (that is, the level of detail and type of collected data) and consolidation processing in the system.

Period from

Beginning month to include in report.

Period indicator

Code used to identify the period of time in which consumption and forecast values will be managed for a production material.

Period To

Time period.

Period Type

The basic time unit of a period, such as calendar week, factory calendar day, in which evaluations are to be carried out.

Period/year

Month and year for which to display posted items.

Periodic accounting

The measurement of transactional financial data for a defined time-frame, and one basis for profitability analysis. Costs are identified in the period in which they occur, irrespective of the period in which the corresponding revenue occurs.

Periodic Analysis

An evaluation that is set to occur at a certain frequency like a month, a day , or an hour.

Periodic reposting

Function that lets you correct postings to cost centers. Periodic reposting is an allocation method that uses rules defined in the form of cycles to credit allocation cost centers. These allocation cost centers are used to collect the postings relevant for cost accounting.

Periodic valuation

Process of determining the cost of an order as it progresses toward completion.

Periods Forecast Horizon

The number of time blocks that equal the forecast horizon.

Periods History Horizon

The number of time blocks that equal the data history horizon.

Permit

A device used to control authorizations. A reminder to the work order Planner/Scheduler of required actions to be completed prior to a specific job being done.

Pers. No.

A unique, identification number for personnel assigned by the system.

Person respons.

Person responsible for the work center.

Person responsible

Person responsible for the work center.

Personnel area

Indicates organizational entity employee is assigned to (example: corporate offices - USA).

Personnel no.

A unique, identification number for personnel assigned by the system.

PGr

Purchasing Group. Key for a buyer or a group of buyers, who is/are responsible for certain purchasing activities.

PH1

Product Hierarchy Level 1.

PH2

Product Hierarchy Level 2.

PH3

Product Hierarchy Level 3.

PH4

Product Hierarchy Level 4.

PH5

Product Hierarchy Level 5.

PH6

Product Hierarchy Level 6.

PHASE

Identifies, along with the operation, the time sequence in which production is to occur. A phase is a subdivision of an operation.

Phys. inventory doc.

Document that serves as the basis for the physical inventory (stock) process.

Phys. inventory ref.

Physical inventory document to be referenced.

Physical inventory document

Document that serves as the basis for the physical inventory (stock) process.

Physical inventory number

Specifies the number or description that is used to group various physical inventory documents so that they can be managed more effectively.

Pick quantity

Quantity of an item which needs to be removed from its current storage location, prepared for shipping and appears on the printed picking list.

Picking

Material/ Product chosen from the plant that will soon be prepared for packing and shipping.

Picking area

A storage type or a section within a storage type in which all picking activities are carried out in the same way.

Picking date

Date which the material must be selected from the plant.

PK

Posting key. Two-digit numeric key that determines the way line items are posted. This key determines several factors including: account type, type of posting (debit or credit), and layout of entry screens

PL

Planning indicator. Indicates whether MRP list has been processed.

Placement stor. type

Storage unit type.

Placement storage type

Storage unit type.

Plan number

Number assigned to the plan.

Plan version

PIanning version

Plan. direction forwards

Indicator used to specify that when the system dispatches an operation, it automatically searches forwards in time, starting from the given date, looking for a possible dispatching date

Plan.qty

Plan quantity. Quantity of material to be produced whose production is planned.

Planned count date

Date on which a physical inventory is planned to take place.

Planned deliv. time

Number of days required to procure a material through external procurement from the date of ordering.

Planned delivery time

Number of days required to procure a material through external procurement from the date of ordering.

Planned Order

Order proposals created during MRP or by the MRP controller. These may be converted into purchase requisitions or production/process orders.

Planned qty

Quantity of product scheduled to be delivered.

Planned Quantities

Quantity of product scheduled to be delivered.

Planned Safety Stock

The level of stock held to prevent material shortages from occurring.

Planned service

A service entered in a PO with either a description or no description and only a set of value limits.

Planned time from

Planned start time.

Planned to from

Planned finish time.

Planner

Person who created the plan.

Planner group

Individuals within the organization responsible for running MRP.

Planner profile

Contains standard planning layouts for cost center, profit center, and internal order planning.

PlannerGrp

Individuals within the organization responsible for running MRP.

Planning

Assigns estimates of the costs for all activities that will be required to carry out the business of an organizational unit over a planning period. Planning is usually a bottom-up processing. After plan values are collected and summarized, top-down budgeting may occur.

Planning area

Central data structure of Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning. If you store actuals or other data in an InfoCube, the InfoCube is attached to the planning area. The planning area is created as part of the Demand Planning/Supply Network Planning setup.

Planning board profile

Defines the following settings for the detailed scheduling planning board: the structure of the detailed scheduling planning board; and the selection and display of the objects to be displayed.

Planning book

Defines the content and layout of the interactive planning screen. You use planning books in Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning. They allow you to design the screen to suit individual planning tasks. A planning book is based on a planning area.

Planning bucket profile

Defines the time buckets in which data is displayed and planned in Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning, for both past and future planning horizons.

Planning buckets profile

Defines the time buckets in which data is displayed and planned in Demand Planning and Supply Network Planning, for both past and future planning horizons.

Planning document

Line item for documenting planning changes.

Planning group

Customers and vendors are allocated to categories reflective of particular characteristics, such as, geographic location, industry, risk elements, and behaviors. This allows for the determination of cash flow and business relationship evaluation. Examples are, domestic customers, foreign customers, delinquent customers, etc.

Planning hierarchy

A user-defined combination of characteristics from an information structure that is used in sales and operations planning.

Planning ID

Grouping of materials to aid with planning in Repetitive Planning.

Planning mode

Used to control the manner in which production planning will occur.

Planning Obj Structure

Contains plannable characteristics for use in one or more planning areas.

Planning object structure

Contains plannable characteristics for use in one or more planning areas.

Planning period

Time period in which the schedule in the DS planning board or in the production planning run can be changed.

Planning plant

Plant where maintenance work is planned.

Planning run

Identifies the execution of materials planning. The planning run calculates the component requirements during the explosion of the bill of material.

Planning start

Identifies the start of materials planning.

Planning Version

In Sales & Operations Planning (SOP), one or more versions of the planning data in an information structure can exist. This allows you to maintain multiple plans of the same information structure in parallel. In APO, for simulation purposes, it is possible to create different planning versions of each supply chain model, but at any point in time, only one model and one of its versions is active. The active model and active version are both labeled 000.

Planning/production plant

Planning plant.

PlanOrders

Number of maintenance orders that are planned.

Plant

A physical definition of a group of manufacturing processes.

Plant Code

The code that defines a specific plant.

Plant for mat.

Plant for material.

Plant Maintenance

Process of repairing and maintaining equipment and buildings in optimum operating conditions, thereby achieving high levels of reliability and quality in the manufacturing process, and maximizing the available production capacity to fully support business needs and growth.

Plant Maintenance Assembly

A group of parts which when assembled constitute a major sub-section of a piece of equipment. They may be stocked as spare repair parts to assist in the rapid replacement and restoration of equipment. Also used to collectively refer to the plant maintenance master data records for assemblies.

Plant section

Sub-division of maintenance plants into production areas.

Plant stock

Plant inventory.

Plant(s)

A physical definition of a group of manufacturing processes.

Plcmnt stor. ty.

Type of storage unit for deciding where to place incoming stock.

Plnd delivery time

The planned lead time from order placement to delivery.

Plnd dely time

Number of calendar days needed to obtain the material or service when it is procured externally.

Plnd order

Production order proposal.

Plng Plant

Plant where maintenance work is planned.

Plng version

Plnned order profile

Used to assign default values for the planned order.

Plnt

A physical definition of a group of manufacturing processes.

PM activity type

Type of plant maintenance activity such as, inspection, planned maintenance, repair, or service contract.

PM master data

Fundamental data which describes the plant and is used by the plant maintenance module to organize the work. This includes functional locations, equipment records, BOMs, work centers, etc.

PM notification

Document used to identify the need for corrective maintenance and to capture information regarding the repair.

PM Notifications and Work Orders Process

Method by which maintenance needs are documented, planned and scheduled, and saved to history.

PM order

A document that is used primarily to track the costs associated with the maintenance and repair of plant equipment, but can also be used to track the costs of non-maintenance related activities.

PM order system status

Automatically assigned codes that identify what PM order activities have occurred.

PM order user status

A manually updated code that identifies the stage in the PM work order process that the PM order has reached.

PM plan group

Group of employees in a plant who plan and perform the maintenance tasks.

PM planner group

Group of employees in a plant who plan and perform the maintenance tasks.

PM planning plant

Plant number where all plant maintenance tasks are planned. Maintenance plants are part of a planning plant.

PMActType

Plant Maintenance Activity Type. Code that groups similar activities to be performed on an object (e.g Repair, Inspection, etc.).

Pmnt block

Payment block. Indicator that allows you to block an account or individual items for payment.

Pmnt meth.

Payment method. Code identifying the method by which the customer will pay for the order, using the automatic payment transactions.

Pmnt method

Payment method. Code identifying the method by which the customer will pay for the order, using the automatic payment transactions.

Pmnt terms

Payment terms. Defines cash discount percentages and payment periods.

PO date

Purchase order date.

PO Forecast Qty

Purchase order forecast quantity.

PO FORECASTED QTY

Purchase order forecasted quantity.

PO history

Details on goods receipts effected by the PO.

PO invoice

Document posted in SAP when a purchase order but no goods receipt is received. Examples would be for contract services.

PO items

Number of all items in the purchase orders that have been recorded.

PO Net Selling Price

Purchase order net selling price.

PO number

Purchase order number.

PO price

Average value of the purchase order.

PO quantity

Quantity of materials to be purchased.

PO statistics

Information relating to procurement of a material such as total value of orders or number of orders entered.

PO. vendor no.

Purchase order vendor number.

PO.deliv.plant

Plant where the material is to be delivered.

Pooled capacity

Available capacity that can be used by several work centers. An example of a pooled capacity is a group of setup personnel who carry out setups for many work centers.

POrg

Code identifying the purchasing subdivision within the company.

Portion/percent

Fixed portions/percentages used in the sender/receiver combination fields.

POs

Purchase orders.

Pos.

Designator used to distinguish each maintenance item associated with a specific maintenance plan. In HR, this field represents individual employee assignments within the company.

Post.change qty

Posting change quantity in alternative unit of measure.

Postal code

A zip code.

Postal code/City

Zip code and city name.

Post-capitalization

Correction of the value of an asset, which was either set too low due to not carrying out a capitalization in the past, or which was treated entirely as expense.

Postg date

The date on which a transaction in SAP will be posted to the appropriate accounts. SAP will default this field to be the current date, but changes are allowed. For items to be posted in a future or past period, you must enter the posting date.

Posting block

Block for posting a material movement.

Posting date

Posting key

Two-digit numerical key that controls how line items are posted.

Posting period

The fiscal period in which a transaction in SAP will be posted to the appropriate accounts; the period is determined from the posting date.

PP/DSP PPM

A PPM that can be used only in the PP/DS time continuous planning module.

PPL.

Procurement plant, internal source of supply for a material.

PPM

Name of a recipe or plan to manufacture an item in-house.

Prd. Orders

Number of production orders.

Prd.orders

Number of production orders.

Predictive maintenance

Verifies equipment operation.

Preventive maintenance

Keeps equipment operating properly and optimally.

Preventive maintenance plan

Plant maintenance plan to prevent breakdown of equipment.

Preventive Maintenance Work Order (PM20)

A type of work order, with automatic work order release, used for preventive maintenance work.

Preventive Maintenance Work Order (PM25)

A type of work order, with manual work order release, used for preventive maintenance work.

Preventive or Predictive Maintenance

Captures the recurring maintenance that keeps equipment operating properly and optimally.

Price

Value assigned to material or service when transferring from one company to another. The price of materials sold is usually greater than the cost. The price of materials purchased usually provides the basis for their cost in SAP.

Price condition type

Type of price condition as defined by the system. For example, in pricing, different condition types are used to distinguish between a discount which refers to a net price and a discount which refers to a gross price.

Price control

Indicator determining the procedure used for material valuation.

Price group

Grouping of customers used for pricing purposes.

Price history

Series of prices charged or quoted by a vendor for a material or service over a certain period extending up to the present time. These prices may be derived from vendor quotations or from purchase orders issued to the vendor.

Price indicator

Indicator showing how SAP calculates the price of a business process or activity type for a cost center.

Price unit

Unit to which the valuation price in the material master record relates.

Pricing condition record

All of the day-to-day pricing elements are defined in SAP as pricing condition records. They are subdivided into four general categories: prices, discounts and surcharges, freight charges, and sales taxes.

Pricing date

Date on which a condition record will apply.

Pricing ref.material

Material master record that the system uses as a reference for pricing. If this pricing reference is entered in the master record for a material, all conditions defined for the pricing reference material apply to this material. A material master record must be created for each pricing reference material.

Pricing types

An indicator that controls whether pricing must be performed again when copying a document or whether the process must be transferred unchanged.

Primary cost

Costs incurred from primary cost elements. Primary costs include materials, labor, and externally procured services.

Primary cost element

Object to which material, labor, or external service costs are posted.

Primary Resource

For APO, a process unit or part of a plant in which an operation is carried out. It is assigned for the duration of the operation in which all activities in the operation automatically receive the same primary resource as the operation. You maintain the usage of primary resources by specifying the duration of the activity. For PP, the primary resource is the processing unit or reaction vessel at which an operation is carried out. It is committed for the duration of the operation, which means that all the phases of this operation are automatically carried out at this primary resource.

Printer

Equipment used to print documents.

Priority

Relative importance of the work. Used to rank orders for scheduling purposes. In HR, identifies the attendance booking priority of an attendee or the processing priority of a garnishment.

Pro forma invoice

Billing document that informs importing authorities that goods will be arriving in the future. It does not affect the normal billing process.

Problem

Code for the problem from an assigned catalog.

Proc. order type

Code used by the system to identify the process order type.

Process manufacturing production

A method of production based on the successful completion of a routine.

Process Medium

The format (e.g. paper print-out, file, etc.) of the output of the process.

Process Order

Numerical value used to identify a particular process order.

Process order type

Code used by the system to identify the process order type.

Process sales documents

The sales documents created during the process.

Process stock transfer docs

The stock transfer documents created during the process.

Processing

The measures necessary for clearing merchandise through customs.

Processing date

Date on which the MRP list was processed.

Processing key

Indicator used by the system to identify the MPS or MRP run type.

Processing status

Processing status for document.

Processing type

Determines if process is carried out online or in the background.

ProcessStatus

Status with which you can represent phases of measurement document processing in the Plant Maintenance module.

Procurement plant

Internal source of supply for a material.

Procurement type

Classification that determines whether a material is procured internally, externally, or both.

Prod hierarchy

Code for grouping materials together by combining different characteristics.

Prod. version

Key which determines the various production techniques according to which a material can be manufactured.

Prod.hierarchy

Alphanumeric character string for grouping materials by combining various characteristics used for valuation and pricing purposes.

Prod.sched.profile

Can be assigned to a production order designated whether the production order should be automatically released.

Producing plant

Plant where the materials are produced.

Product

Output from manufacturing assembly process.

Product allocation

The availability check against allocations, which is one application of the check against plans. It is one of the basic methods.

Product Category

SAP-technical volume of marketable products that have very similar attributes and functions.

Product cost element

Cost element directly contributable to the production of a material.

Product cost estimate

Estimated costs to produce a unit of output.

Product group

Group to which the product or material belongs.

Product hierarchy

Alphanumeric character string for grouping materials by combining various characteristics used for valuation and pricing purposes.

Product name

Name of product.

Product no

Unique number assigend to a product.

Product number

Unique number assigend to a product.

Product proposal

List of materials that are frequently ordered together. Can be copied into an order to reduce data entry requirements.

Product View

This is a view equivalent of stock requirement list of R/3 system. This lists all the requirements and supply elements for a product/location combination.

Product:

A market-oriented entity derived from a product category for the business operations between business partners.

Production

Operation and scheduling of the actual production of goods and services.

Production date

Date production was completed.

Production hor.

The system does not plan SNP production within this horizon. That is, the Supply Network Planning does not create SNP planned orders in the SNP key figure for (planned) production, but shifts production to the first day beyond the specified production horizon. In contrast to the time stream, this horizon determines when Supply Network Planning ends and PP/DS begins.

Production Horizon

Production line

Location in which production is to occur.

Production plan

A manufacturing goal that may focus on specific materials, product groups and characteristic values from an information structure.

Production planner

Individual responsible for the production plan.

Production Planning Table

A capacity viewing and leveling tool in tabular format.

Production plant

Plant for the planning material from where the planned independent requirements are used to calculate the customer requirements for the assigned material.

Production process

A procurement process.

Production scheduler

Person in charge of production control.

Production scheduling profile

Assigned to a production order to designate whether the production order should be automatically released.

Production strategy

Determines how quantities forecasted in APO Demand Planning are produced, and how the demand forecast is consumed with sales orders.

Production time

Time required for production to be completed.

Production version

Key which determines the various production techniques according to which a material can be manufactured.

Products

A market-oriented entity derived from a product category for the business operations between business partners.

ProdVersion

Key which determines the various production techniques according to which a material can be manufactured.

Prof Name

Name identifying a profile.

Profile

Records default values in the master record that describes an objects characteristics. Can contain several sub-profiles.

Profit Center

Area of responsibility within a company for which an independent operating profit can be calculated.

Profit center document

Document created in SAP as a result of a manual posting made to a profit center.

Profit center group

Hierarchy of profit centers used for planning and reporting.

Profit center name

Text description of the profit center.

Profit ctr

Profit Center. Organizational unit in Accounting that reflects a management-oriented structure of the organization for the purpose of internal control.

Profit Ctr Group

Profit center group.

Program

Identification of the ABAP program.

Project

A business undertaking involving a predetermined goal to achieve with prescribed funds and operating resources, to an agreed level of quality, and by a particular date.

Project def.

Framework of data that is binding to the entire project.

Project definition

Framework of data that is binding to the entire project.

Project execution

Process of carrying out a project. In this phase, expenditures are posted to WBS elements.

Project planning

Process of determining scope, costs, and outcome of a project.

Project production

A method of production based on the successful completion of an activity.

Project profile

Summary of system parameters with defined values used in project creation.

Project stock

Material allocated to a WBS element for use in a project.

Project type

Code used to group projects with similar characteristics.

Project/WBS status

Represents the phase in the project life cycle and controls the activities that can be performed at each stage of the project.

Promotion

A high-level organizing structure for a series of sales deals used to stimulate sales volume and to create incentives for customers to buy.

Propagation Range

Specifies which resources and products you or the system can plan in production and detailed scheduling.

Proportion

Some amount of the total.

PstKy

Two-digit numerical key that controls how line items are posted.

Pur. order

Document used to purchase materials and services from vendors.

Purch. group

Purchasing group. Number used to identify a buyer or group of buyers.

Purch. grp

Purchasing group. Number used to identify a buyer or group of buyers.

Purch. organization

Code identifying the purchasing subdivision within the company.

Purch.order no.

Unique number identifying the purchase order.

Purch.org.

Code identifying the purchasing subdivision within the company.

Purch.req.

Document used to request materials and services. Purchase requisitions are converted to purchase orders so materials can be procured externally.

Purchase document

Instrument used by the purchasing department to procure materials or services.

Purchase order

Document used to purchase materials and services from vendors.

Purchase order date

Date on which PO was created.

Purchase order no.

Unique number identifying the purchase order.

Purchase order number

Unique number identifying the purchase order.

Purchase order/scheduling agreement

Document used to purchase materials and services from vendors. Or, outline agreement on the basis of which materials are procured at a series of predefined points in time over a certain period.

Purchase Requisition

Document used to request materials and services. Purchase requisitions are converted to purchase orders so materials can be procured externally.

Purchasing

Material master record view containing information on a material relevant to procurement including delivery tolerances and purchase order unit of measure.

Purchasing document

Instrument used by the purchasing department to procure materials or services.

Purchasing group

Buyer or group of buyers responsible for purchasing activities

Purchasing info category

Purchasing information record category such as, standard, subcontracting, and pipeline, based on order type.

Purchasing info record

Purchasing information record. Record that links a material to a vendor and is used to assign a source to a purchase requisition.

Purchasing information record

Record that links a material to a vendor and is used to assign a source to a purchase requisition.

Purchasing Org

Code identifying the purchasing subdivision within the company.

Purchasing org.

Code identifying the purchasing subdivision within the company.

Purchasing organization

Code identifying the purchasing subdivision within the company.

Purchasing value key

Key defining intervals of reminders used to notify the vendor for not sending the material on-time; tolerance limits of what percentage of over delivery and under delivery will be accepted; whether unlimited over delivery will be accepted; and whether acknowledgement of the purchasing document by the vendor is required.

Purchasing VIEW

Material master record view containing information on a material relevant to procurement including delivery tolerances and purchase order unit of measure.