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Subject : it-skills
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1. A term from Inventory Management denoting a physical inward movement of goods or material from a company - usally with reference to a purchase order or production order.






2. List some ________: Internal processing - External processing - costs -service






3. Which data will be evaluated






4. A request or instruction to Purchasing to procure a quantity of a material or service so what it is available at a certain point in time.






5. Released






6. A customer request to a compnay for the delivery of goods or services at a certain time. The request is received by a sales area that is then responsible for fulfilling the contract.






7. CJ29 - Project Scheduling Transaction - OSPU - Used to set control keys.






8. An organizational unit in Accounting that reflects a management-oriented structure fo the organization for the purpose of internal control.






9. Predfined cost framework for a task or project within the specific period. Budgeting differs from cost planning in that it is bindiing. Whereas you must estimate your project costs as accurately as possible during project cost planning - it is the ap






10. Overall Network Scheduling Transaction with selection options






11. The smallest organization unit within a company - used to represent a closed system for cost accounting purposes. A controlling area may include single or multiple company codes that may use different currencies.






12. A request or instruction from a purchasing organization to a vendor (external supplier) or a plant to deliver a quantity of material or render a service at a certain point in time.






13. Object representing events that are particularly important for the progress of the project or are of special interest. You can assign milestones to individual acitvities or WBS elements.






14. Order for detaled planning and associated documetnation of measures during maintenance.






15. Finally Confirmed






16. Objects Maintained in _______: Work Breakdown Structures - Network - Milestone - Project Definition






17. Are entered in networks using confirmations.






18. A structure element of the work breakdown structure. It describes a concrete task or a partial task that can be further subdivided. Planned and actual values for a project are defined and aggregated in WBS elements.






19. Hierachical structuring of a company's undertaking to create tangible assets or render services for an approval year.






20. Network activities can only be linked to each other by means of relationships in the project system. The work breakdown structure has a purely hierachical structure however.






21. A binding framework for all the organization elements created in a project. The project definition contains default and control values. When you create a work breakdown structure - you automatically create a proejct definition.






22. Comparison or evaluation of data?






23. Sets of dates - Planning form - Scheduling - Planning Different Calendars - Shift - Extrapolation - Inherit - Check dates






24. Lifecycle of _________: Progress - Structure - Bottlenecks/Comparison - Analyses - Machines - Persons - External assignment - Work Center






25. Which requirements do you want to display?






26. Which period do you want to split?






27. An organizational unit within a company - used to represent a closed system for cost accounting purposes. A controlling area may include single or multiple company codes that may use different currencies.






28. An organizational unit within a controlling area that represents a defined location of cost incurrence. The definition can be based on funcitonal requirements - allocation criteria - physical locations or responsibility for costs.






29. Describes the chronological sequence of and dependencies between events and activites in a project - and maps the actual flow of the project.






30. The network structures that are not directly associated with a project and can be used as templates for creating other standard networks or operative networks.






31. Determines the latest dates






32. Internal cost allocation procedure where by the valuated atcitives (allocation bases) carredi out by cost centers are reallocated to the cost receiver according to the cause. In internal activity allocation - the service carried out by thte cost cent






33. Actual Start Date






34. What period will be evaluated?






35. Task in a network that has a defined start and finish. Project Systems has the following activity types Internal processing - external processing - costs - service.






36. A production order used in discrete manufacturing.






37. The actual dates for a WBS element can only be entered either - Manually - Calculateted by extrapoaltion of actual dates of lower ranked WSB elements - Derived from the provisional actual dates of assigned activities.






38. Only affects the activities for which a reduction strategy has been stored






39. Project-specific notification category. A claim is used to document varioances form the project plan. You can use claims to plan costs incurred by variances - as well as initiate and monitor follow up activities.






40. A list of dates from which down payment request and sales relevant invoices are sent to customers. The planned revenues and planned incoming payments are automatically derived from the billing plan and recorded in the relevant WBS element.






41. Controls how actual dates from partial confirmations affect further scheduling runs






42. Top Down - Bottom Up - Free Planning - Strict Bottom Up






43. Determines the original direction in which scheduling is carried out. Networks are always scheduled forwards and backwards. They are used for both network and WBS scheduling.






44. An organizationl unit that defines where and by whom an activity is to be carried otu. The data in the work center can be used for scheduling - costing - and capacity planning.






45. A way of describing the link between the start and finish points of two activities in a network. Relationships determine the sequence of activities.






46. Dates in ____: Network header (Basic and Forecast Dates) - Network activity Constraints (Earliest and Latest Dates) - Activity element






47. A model of the project that shows the project activities to be fulfilled in the hierarchical form. It divides the project into clearly-structured sections. The individual elements of the work breakdown structure are called WBS elements.






48. Automatically calculated by the system for materials during the project based on the projected finish date of the activity.






49. Actual Finish Date






50. A complete - structured list of the components that comprise an object. Bill of materials. The list contains a description - the quantity and the the unit of measure. The components are known as BOM items.