Glossary:
V, W, X, Y, Z Legacy MIT authorization system.
Replaced by the Roles database on July 1,
1999. In the Labor Distribution System (LDS),
a difference between the Payroll and the
LDS records. A saved setting such as table settings
or report selection criteria. See also
Report
Variant. Government required justification for
purchases from external vendors for
$2,500.00 or more. Vendor choice and price
justification are required. 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. Authentication that you obtain from MIT
Information Systems so that you and your
computer can access applications on MIT's
secure web services. 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. 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. 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. Copyright 2001 ©
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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From: 04/13/2001