open revenues

07:06 Sep 15, 2014 

To be fair, I would like to know whether the asker could provide some additional information, e.g., which type of SAP system we're talking about? That may change my disagreement to one of the answers.

Yes, Obligoerlös seems to have been used within R/2 - but the era of R/2 was two decades ago, so it seems quite unlikely (and that's probably the reason why Oliver has never heard of the term). Of course, the asker can correct me here.

You also have to think about:

1) Obligo as a term in financial management means Gesamtverpflichtungen of a company. Turning that around to say I get Erlöse from the Gesamtverpflichtungen of another company seems quite odd.

2) In R/3, SAP only seems to use the term for cost incurred, meaning the companies have Obligos that they have to pay back to someone else. That's why you probably don't see the term in sales. Thus, starting the translation with Obligo does not seem like a good choice.

3) The second instance of "open revenues" I added to my agreement to Oliver. It's from SAP Business One.

The only time you can throw out old terminology is when you're designing a new system, which is what they've done, apparently.