A
ARun Allocation run ATP Available-to-promise
B
BAPI Business Application Programming Interface BOM Bill of material
A complete, structured list of the components that make up a product or assembly. The list contains the object number of each component, the quantity, and unit of measure. The compo-nents are known as BOM items. You can create the following BOM categories in the SAP System.
Material BOM, Document structure, Equipment BOM, Functional Location BOM, and Sales Order BOM
Bundle Apparel industry term for all pattern pieces in a marker that will be sewn together to form a gar-ment in a certain size, multiplied by the number of fabric plies in a stack. The information on bundles is maintained in the planned orders and production orders.
C
CAD A data processing system for computer-aided design and drawing.
Category Characteristic of an AFS product that allows a division into different qualities or countries of origin, for example.
CO Product Controlling
Company The smallest organizational unit of financial Code accounting for which a complete self-contained
set of accounts can be drawn up for purposes of external reporting. This includes recording of all relevant transactions and generating all support-ing documents required for financial statements.
D
Delivery A delivery program is defined by one of the Program following combinations: Season; Season –
Collec-tion; Season – Collection – Theme. You specify dates so that the delivery program is delivered during a certain period.
Dimensions Product characteristics usually referred to in the apparel and footwear industry as style/color/size.
A freely definable element of an AFS grid. An AFS grid is composed of up to three dimensions.
Dimensions are, for example, length, color, size, or width. Each dimension is composed of dimen-sion values that are all valid entries for a particu-lar dimension.
E
EAN International Article Number EDI Electronic data exchange ETA Estimated time of arrival
F
FOB Free on board
G
Grid Important element of the AFS basic data that maps the characteristic values of an AFS material in grid values and permits combinations consist-ing of up to three dimensions (for example color, size, length). The use of master, purchase, and sales grids facilitate the valuation, procurement, and sale of AFS materials at SKU level.
GLOSSARY
H
Heart Grid Description for the grid values of a material Value that you sell or purchase very frequently.
(heart size) When maintaining the grid control data for a material, you can flag these grid values as heart grid values.
I
InfoCube A central object on which reports and analyses in SAP BW are based. An InfoCube describes a self-contained data set (from the reporting view), for example, for a business-oriented area.
InfoSource An InfoSource describes a quantity of all available data for a business event, or type of business event (for example, Cost Center Accounting). An InfoSource is a quantity of information that has been grouped together and can be said to belong together logically from a business point of view.
InfoSources can either contain transaction data or master data (attributes, texts, and hierarchies).
L
LIS Logistics Information System
M
Marker The optimal placement of pattern pieces to achieve the best fabric utilization for the cutting process. Unique markers are defined by the name and repetition of the size or dimension they con-tain. They can be plotted on paper or stored in a file that is used to drive a numerically controlled cutter. SAP AFS uses marker data to:
– Adjust quantities in a planned or production order
– Identify unique bundle numbers Material Product/Article
MM Materials Management
MRP Material requirements planning mySAP.com SAP’s e-business platform.
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O
ODS Operational Data Store
Object used to store consolidated and cleaned-up transaction data at document level (basic level).
An ODS object describes a consolidated data set comprising one or more InfoSources.
OLAP Online analytical processing
Analytical, multidimensional reporting based on multidimensional data sources. OLAP reporting allows several dimensions to be analyzed simulta-neously (such as time, place, product, and so on).
The aim of OLAP reporting is to analyze key fig-ures, such as for an analysis of the sales figures for a certain product in a particular time period.
P
Plant A place where materials are produced, or goods and services are provided.
PP Production planning
R
RFQ Request for quotation
A request from a purchasing organization to a vendor (external supplier) to submit a quotation for the supply of materials or the performance of services.
S
Seasons/ In the apparel and footwear industry, several Collections/ materials that share certain traits such as color Themes or texture can be combined to form a theme.
Themes can be part of a collection, which in turn can belong to a season. The combination of the theme, collection, and season forms a delivery program. You can define dates for the delivery period for this delivery program.
SD Sales and Distribution SKU Stock keeping unit
The most detailed schedule line of an AFS prod-uct with its grid value (for example 38/yellow) and category values (for example quality A/
country of origin D).
SKU Period in which the AFS MRP carries out plan-Level ning at SKU level. Requirements outside of the Horizon SKU horizon are planned only at material level.
Planning at material level and at SKU level in the SKU horizon is carried out separately. That means that requirements at material level cannot be satisfied by procurement at SKU level.
SOP Sales and Operations Planning
U
UPC Universal Product Code
V
VAS Value-added-services.
Services that improve the appearance, attractive-ness and processing of a product, for example, packing, ticketing and special service.
W
WM Warehouse Management
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