• Overview
• SAP CPS General Information
• SAP CPS Fast Track Implementation (Basic Version)
• SAP CPS Best Practice Implementation and Planning Workshop
• SAP CPS Training and Education
• SAP CPS Managed Service
• SAP CPS Offsite Development
• SAP CPS Bespoke Modules and Scripts
• SAP CPS and Run Book Automation
• SAP CPS Resource Links
• SAP Fast Financial Close

SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood - General Information

SAP Central Process Scheduling (CPS) for NetWeaver 7 is a culmination of 5 years joint development by SAP and Redwood Software to radically enhance the native job scheduling and
workload management capabilities of SAP. SAP CPS is licensed, validated and supported directly by SAP and is a true extension of the core SAP environment being now fully embedded within
NetWeaver 7 and tightly integrated with Solution Manager.

SAP CPS delivers unprecedented improvements over SM36/SM37 scheduling and, most importantly, SAP customers are entitled to download a free (basic) version of SAP CPS from
the SAP Marketplace which will enable them to migrate their existing SM36 schedules to SAP CPS. Once installed SAP CPS Basic will provide;

• A graphical user environment in which to create and execute true dependency based job chains
• The ability to parallelize existing job schedules to considerably improve throughput
• The ability to specify SAP events as well as dates & times to trigger the execution of job chains, thus providing event based scheduling
• The ability to intercept non-scheduled workloads (user jobs etc.) and dynamically apply rules to govern when (or if) they should be allowed to run
• Workload Management via multiple queues allowing you to separate, prioritize and control different types of workloads
• The automatic ability to associate spawned child jobs with their parent job (for instance BI Process Chains) and create true successor relationships on completion of all of the spawned processes.
• The ability to dynamically specify (or create/replace) variants for a job at the time of execution thus significantly
  reducing the number of job definitions whilst also providing extended logic capabilities.
• Solution Manager Integration for SAP Job Monitoring

SAP also sell an enhanced version of SAP CPS which is chargeable and includes; cross system scheduling with centralized management and monitoring, extended Solution Manager and BI capabilities and Hardware Virtualization.

Please see our white paper “Unraveling SAP Background Process Scheduling and Workload Management” for more details of the capabilities of both versions of SAP CPS.