Why Central Process Schulding?

Question

Hi All,
Client is using SAP 4.6 c and  they want to implement SAP Central Process Schulding .
So i have some questions about CPC.
1)What does the functionality consist of?
2)Benefits of implementing such functionality with respect to SM36 SM37?
3)Pre-requisites to such implementation?
Regards
Trilochan

Answer 1

Hi Trilochan,
Two versions of CPS are available:
- a NetWeaver integrated version, requiring a NetWeaver 7.0 or higher Java stack somewhere
- a standalone version, not requiring any NetWeaver Java stack but requiring an Oracle database somewhere
The requirements only apply to the system where you install the central components of CPS, not for the systems CPS connects to: the SAP systems you connect to CPS to monitor and control jobs can be of SAP versions going back to 3.1 approximately.
So if you already have or can install a NetWeaver 7.0 Java stack, you can deploy the latest version of CPS there and use it to handle the jobs in your NetWeaver 2004 system (and/or the 4.6c system you mentioned earlier).
If not, you can start with the standalone version. If possible, I'd recommend to start with the NetWeaver integrated version, this saves you an upgrade of CPS later.
Regards,
Anton.