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Subject : it-skills
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1. Hierachical structuring of a company's undertaking to create tangible assets or render services for an approval year.






2. 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.






3. Determines the latest dates






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






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






6. Determines the earliest dates.






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






8. Factors influencing Scheduling: Internal Processing - External Processing - ____________ - Relationships (ES Earliest Start - LS Latest Start - EF Earliest Finish - TF - Total Float - FF Free Float - FS Finish Start - SF Start Finish - SS






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






10. Plant Data Collection






11. 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.






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






13. A component of Materials Management with the following tasks; procuring materials and services externally - determining possible sources of supply for a requirement - monitoring goods deliveries and payment.






14. 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.






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






16. Factors that can have an influence on the __________ of networks: The transaction used to carry out the scheduling - Relationships to other networks - The control key for the activity - Dates of assigned WBS elements - The work center in activities






17. A neutral work breakdown strucutre that can be used several times over and only serves as a template for creating operative owrk breakdown structures.






18. 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.






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. Which fields do you want to display?






24. 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.






25. Overall Network Scheduling Transaction with selection options






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






27. A production order used in discrete manufacturing.






28. Which requirements do you want to display?






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






30. Actual Finish Date






31. What period will be evaluated?






32. Which period do you want to split?






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






40. Finally Confirmed






41. Are entered in networks using confirmations.






42. 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.






43. 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






44. Which data will be evaluated






45. Released






46. Comparison or evaluation of data?






47. 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






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






49. The system can checkthe heirachical consisteny co time scheduling within the project and extapolate dates within the project strucure automaticallly on saving using the planning methods "top down" "bottom up " and "strict bottom up."






50. 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.