I'm working with some data that's coming out of an SAP system. There's a field named
POSNR
that appears to be a line item/database identifier of some kind. What is this an abbreviation for? It's not hyper-critical to what I'm doing, but every time I stare at the word it looks like pure gibberish and can be slightly distracting.
I'm not an SAP expert but could it be "Item number of sales document"?
If you look at, for example, VBAP table in german, POSNR is "Positionsnummer des Vertriebsbeleges" so yes, POSNR is POSition NumbeR.
It's very common in SAP tables to use it in combination with doc. number to create the primary key for positions or subdocuments, especially in SD (sales) tables. So you have VBAK-VBELN for purchase order header and VBAP-VBELN + VBAP-POSNR for items in purchase orders. So on in LIKP/LIPS, VBRK/VBRP, VBUK/VBUP...