| A | B |
| Purchase Requisition Creator | A person who has the ability to assign a desired vendor to a requisition. |
| Purchase Order | Request or instruction from a purchasing organization to a vendor. |
| PCard | Used to purchase non-stock materials or travel related expenses. |
| Requisition | A request to Purchasing to procure a certain quantity of a material to be available for a certain point in time. |
| Blanket purchase order | A longer term purchase order. |
| Stock Overview | Gives you the ability to view inventory on hand at the Plant and Storage Location. |
| MMBE | Transaction Code used to run a Stock Overview |
| Contract | A longer-term type of outline purchase agreement. |
| Quantity | This type of contract is regarded as fulfilled when release orders totalling a given quantity have been issued. |
| Value | This type of contract is regarded as fulfilled when release orders totalling a given value have been issued. |