Process chain in BW for specific day starting programm in ERP

Hi guys,
I have created a process chain in BW which works fine.
Now I have to think about to include a step in this process chain which starts for one specific day one program in ERP.
When this program in ERP is finished with updating data the process chain should continue and then the ERP data should be uploaded in BW.
For example. Every 10th of a month a program in ERP should be started for the last day of the month before (for example 31.1.11). The program runs about 7 hours. When the program is finished the process chain shoul continue.
Is that possible to handle with process chains?
Thank you in advance!

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1. Make your existing chain as local chain.
2. Create a process chain PC1 with a start variant and add above local chain.
3. Schedule PC1 every day and restrict it not to run on 10th day of every month.
4. Create a program or function module in ECC to execute your logic.(last day of last month as range).
5. create a event in ECC.
6. create a back ground job with step1 as program and step2 as event created in step 5.
7. Create process chain PC2 in BI with start variant with event created in step 5.
8. schedule the back ground job created in step 6 in ecc to run on evry 10th day of the month.
If you do not want 2 pcs you can create only one PC based on variant from ECC. Add lIF condition in your ECC program
to check if it is 10th of the month or not. If it 10th day execute your logic else complete the program with out executing any logic.
so that back ground job will trigger step 2 (which is event) which will inturn trigger BI load.
Thanks,
Kalyan.
Edited by: Kalyan.Undavally on Feb 8, 2011 6:30 PM

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