SAP Glossary

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BC

Basis

Backflush

Material is issued for use in an order. Automatic posting of a goods issue for these components some time after their actual physical issue is termed as backflush. During confirmation, the goods issue posting of backflushed components is carried out.

Background Processing

To schedule a process to happen without coming onto the screen. Data can be processed in the background while other functions are being carried out in parallel on the screen. Some programs can be schedules to run on week ends at a particular time. This is particularly useful for batch processing, taking back-up of data etc.

BAPI

Business Application Programming Interface

Batch Input

Interface to facilitate the transfer of large amounts of either old data or external data to an SAP system.

Batch Processing

The procedure to process large volumes of data at once. The processing can not be modified once processing has begun.

BBP

Business-To-Business Procurement

BDC

Batch Data Communication. Used to define processing mode for a batch input sessions like Displaying all records, Displaying error dialogs, Process sessions in background etc.

BW

Business Information Warehouse