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Vaps

Legacy MIT authorization system. Replaced by the Roles database on July 1, 1999.

Variance

In the Labor Distribution System (LDS), a difference between the Payroll and the LDS records.

Variant

A saved setting such as table settings or report selection criteria. See also Report Variant.

Vendor Justification

Government required justification for purchases from external vendors for $2,500.00 or more. Vendor choice and price justification are required.

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WBS Element

WBS elements are both research and fund accounts. Research accounts that are funded by outside sponsors and used to track costs of a particular research project over its entire span of activity. They are numbered 50000000 through 9999999. Fund accounts are sponsored accounts with a four-digit sponsor code. They are numbered 2000000 through 4999999.

Web Certificate

Authentication that you obtain from MIT Information Systems so that you and your computer can access applications on MIT's secure web services.

Work Item Replace

A function which allows you to put a work item such as a requisition or a JV back into the queue so it is available to all people such as credit card approvers, requisition approvers, JV approvers, and others who are authorized to process that item. For example, if an approver was working on a requisition but was unable to complete it for some reason, he or she could replace the work item so that another approver could finish it.

Workflow

A routing tool in SAP that forwards documents for review or approval. For example, a requisition that needs to be approved is sent to the appropriate approver's inbox. Workflow is also used to route journal vouchers in SAP.

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ZMIT

Prior to version 4.6 of SAP, the SAP User Menu screen was called the "MIT Financial System" screen or the "zmit" screen, and had the transaction code zmit (no longer a valid transaction code). See SAP User Menu screen.

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