SAP terms

Purchase Order

Purchase Order in Materials Management is a Request or instruction from a purchasing

organization to a vendor (external supplier) or a plant to deliver a certain quantity of material or to perform certain

services at a certain point in time.

Sales & Operations Planning

Sales & Operations Planning (SOP) is a flexible forecasting and planning

tool with which sales, production, and other supply chain targets can be set on the basis of historical, existing, and/or

estimated future data. Resource planning can also be carried out to determine the amounts of the work center capacities and

other resources required to meet these targets.

Number Range Group

Number Range Group is a combination of one or more number range objects and one or more number intervals. It defines the

area (interval) to which a key assigned during posting of a document (object) belongs.

Archiving

Archiving is SAP’s terminology for the functionality that purges

transactions and master data from the SAP database. The SAP literature states that archived data can be restored to the

production system. For practical purposes however, this is not recommended.

IDoc

IDoc (Intermediate Document)

— An IDoc is a data container for data exchange between SAP systems or between an SAP

system and an external

system.

WBS

WBS Element

— Individual structural element in a work breakdown structure

OSS

OSS (Online Service System)

— SAP's Online Service System useful help for all problems in all the modules and

products of SAP. It is also the

basic element of communications between customers

ALE

Application Link Enabling

— Application Link Enabling

APO

APO

— Advanced Planner & Optimizer

AAA

AAA

— Materials Management Automatic Account Assignment