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What is “POSNR” for acronym or abbreviation?

I work with some data coming out of the SAP system. There's a field called

POSNR

which appears to be the position / database identifier. What is this abbreviation for? This is not too critical for what I am doing, but every time I look at this word, it looks like pure gibberish and can slightly distract attention.

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I’m not an SAP expert, but could it be the Sales Document Article Number "?

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Position number?

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If you look at, for example, the German VBAP table, POSNR is “Positionsnummer des Vertriebsbeleges”, so yes, POSNR is POSition NumbeR.

In SAP tables, it is very often used in combination with doc. Number for creating a primary key for items or subdocuments, especially in SD (sales) tables. Thus, you have VBAK-VBELN for the header of the purchase order and VBAP-VBELN + VBAP-POSNR for the items in the purchase orders. So, in LIKP / LIPS, VBRK / VBRP, VBUK / VBUP ...

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/1729615/

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