Scheduling a job with different variants

i have a program to be run daily for three company codes and different materials. If i give all the three company codes at a time then the program is taking a lot of time and giving a run time error 'time limit exceeded' .Can i create variants for that program and make it run sequentially with all the variants.

hi Deepthi,
Yes you can do that .. i even suggest to modify your select statements to reduce the processing time .
Refer
http://www.sap-img.com/abap/performance-tuning-for-data-selection-statement.htm
Regards,
Santosh
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