ABAP/4 :

Advanced business application programming/4

Fourth generation programming language developed by SAP for application
programming purpose.

ABAP/4 development workbench:

Integrated programming workbench that offers all the necessary tools for creating and
maintaining business applications in the R/3 system
The ABAP/4 Programming is used to program development.

ABAP query:
Facility that allows users without knowledge of the ABAP programming language or
table or field names to define and execute their own reports.
To determine the report structure the user only has to enter texts and select fields and
options. fields are selected from functional areas and can be assigned a sequence by
numbering.
There are three types of report format are available
1.basic lists
2.statistics
3.ranked lists

ABAP repository:
All ABAP development workbench objects are stored in the ABAP repository. These
objects include ABAP programs,scenes,documentations etc…

ABC analysis:
Procedure to determine the imp of an object such as a material, vendor or plant.
You use an ABC analysis to classify objects according to specific criteria or performance
measures. Each object is assigned one of the following indicators.
1.important
2.less important
3.relativly unimportant
ABC analysis is used in material management, plant maintenance, the logistics
information system and ABAP query.

ABC indicator:
Indicator that is assigned by the procedure of ABC analysis. You perform an ABC
analysis for an object such as a material, vendor or plant.

Acces sequence:
An access sequence identifies the document fields used by the system to search for a
condition record.

Account determination:
Automatic system function which determines automatically for the user during any
posting transactions the accounts in financial accounting to which the amount(s) in
question should be posted.

Account determination procedure:

Procedure where all permitted account determination types are stored in a particular
sequence.

Account determination type:

Key that determines the access sequence and other conditions under which revenue
account determination takes place in the sales document.

Account group(FI):
A collection of properties of accounts which determine the creation of master records.
The account group determines the data that is relevant for the master record and a number
range from which numbers are selected for the master records.
Each master record must be assigned to a master record.
Account reconciliation:
Procedure for ensuring the adequacy of the accounting.
For G/L accounts, account balances are compared with the balances of the posted
business transactions.
For current accounts, account balances are compared with the balances of the
reconciliation accounts and posted transactions.

ATP quantity:
Available to promise
This is a quantity of a material or part still available to MRP which can be used for new
sales orders. This quantity is calculated for warehouse stock as well as for planned
receipts(production orders, planned orders etc). so that a correct availability check is
possible for sales order processing.

Back order processing:

With the back order processing function , you can process materials for which there are
missing quantities. In this process you can commit the requirements upto the amount of
the current ATP quantity or you can re-allocate quantities that have already have been
committed

Batch management:
It serves to manage partial quantities of a material separately in a sock.

Batch split:
Transfer posting of the certain amount of one batch to another batch.

BDC:
Batch data communication
BDC options define the processing mode for a batch input secession.
Examples of modes used for processing secessions are
∙display all records
∙display for error dialogues only
∙process secession in the background
∙process secession on the screen.

Bill to party:
Person or company that receives the invoice for a delivery or service. The bill to party is
not necessarily the payer who settles the bill.

Billing block:
Billing blocks are used to prevent the releasing of billing documents to the financial
accounting. Blocked billing documents can be released manually after they have been
checked

Billing document:
Generic term for invoices for credit memos, debit memos and cancellation documents. A
billing document is made up of a header, which contains data that applies to the whole
document, and of any number of items.

Billing schedule:
Calendar that determines the dates on which the customer is to be billed. If the customer
requires a collective invoice, for ex u can define d billing schedule in a calendar in the
sydtem. During billing the system automatically proposes the corresponding date from
the calendar.

Billing type:
Controls the processing of invoices, credi memos, debit memos and cancellation
documents.

Business area(Fi):
It is an organizational unit within financial acconting which represents a separate area of
operations or responsibilities within an organization. Financial accounting transactions
can be allocated to a specific business area.

Business data:

Imp data at header or item level of a sales document that is relevant for sales, shipping
and billing transactions.

Calculation base(co):
Group of calculational values to which overhead is to be applied. In customizing you
assign single cost elements or single origins or a range of origins to the calculation bases.
Calculation type:
Key that specifies if the rate is defined either as an absolute amount, as an amount
reffering to a quantity , weight or volume or as a percentage value.

Cash discount:
Reduction in a payment. If payment is made with in a certain time period.

Chart of accounts:
It is a classification scheme defined for use in accounting, whose purpose is to provide a
frame work for the recording of values or value flows in order to guarantee an orderly
rendering accounts.

Client:
A self contained unit in an R/3 system with separate master records and its own set of
tables.

Condition:
Data element is used to define prices, taxes and output according to the criteria selected
by the user.

Condition base value:

Amount to which the discount or surcharge in a scale refers. A discount is substracted
from the condition base value where a surcharge is added to the value.

Condition category:
Classification of conditions according to the pre defined criteria.

Condition class:
Grouping that allows you to control each condition type differently. For ex the condition
type”taxes” defines that the taxes in a discount must be recalculated if the country of the
ship to party changes.

Condition record:
Data record that stores a condition, possibly with condition supplements.

Condition step:
Number that specifies the sequence of the conditions with in the pricing procedure.

Condition supplement:
Condition that the system takes in to account when determining a condition to be used for
a document. Condition supplements are used with a main condition in the condition
record

Condition table:
Table that defines the structure of condition records. The consists of a variable part which
represent one or more fields and of a fixed part which is identical for all Condition
records.

Condition type:
Identifies the characteristics of a condition. For ex in pricing different condition types are
used to distinguish between a discount which refers to a net price and discount which
refers to a gross price.

Condition value:
The value resulting from for a particular condition ,total or sub total in document.

Consignment stock:
Stock mode available by the vendor which is stored on the purchaser’s premises but
remains the vendors’ property until withdrawn from store.

Credit control area(FI):

Organizational unit in an org that specifies and checks credit limits for customers. It can
include one or more company codes. It is not possible to assign a company code to more
than one credit control areas.

Credit memo request:

Reference document for creating credit memo

Customer group:
A freely definable grouping of customers for pricing or statistical purposes. For ex it
could be made of wholesalers or retailers.

Customer scheduling agreement:

Customer outline agreement in which order quantities and delivery dates are stipulated.

Customer material info record:

Customer specific info for a sales material. The user can speed up the data entry process
by using a customer material info record during sales order processing.

Debit memo request:

Document that serves as a basis for the creation of a debit memo

Delivery group:
Group of sales documents that are to be delivere together to the customer.

Delivery type:
Indicator that controls delivery processing. For ex a normal delivery and returns delivery
are assigned different delivery types. As a result the system processes each of these
documents in a different way.
Departure zone:
Regional zone where the shipping point is located and from wher merchandise is shipped.
The system uses it and other delivery related info to determine the route.

Distribution channel:
The channel through which salable materials or services reach customers.

Division:
An org unit based on responsibility for sales or profits from salable materials or services.

Document header:
The part of a document containing info that applies to the entire document.such as for ex
the document date and document number.

Document pricing procedure:

Indicator that, in combination with the customer pricing procedure and other org elements
defines which pricing procedure is to be used in pricing

Dunning procedure:
Pedefined procedure specifieng how customers or vendors are dunned.

EDI:
Electronic data interchange
Companywide electronic interchange of structured data business partners at home and
abroad.

Fiscal year variant:

It decides how many periods and special periods belong to a fiscal year and how the
system determines the assigned posting periods. It is entered and checked in currency
translation.