in process chain

[Former Member]

Hi

whats the techinical difference between PROCESS CHAIN & MASS PROCESSING? I know about mass processing how it works creating activity and assing activity to job and scheduling the job after an event or immediate or a spcefic time... but when it come to MASS PROCSSING- RSPC. here also we need to create a varient we need to assing an varient to program varient.. but i am not able to find the difference.. can anybody make me clear..

Thanks

Deepali

[Former Member]

Hi Deepali,

Following link gives the detailed meaning of process chains:

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/8f/c08b3baaa59649e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm

Mass processing: Here individual jobs are run, we define activity for it and create a job & schedule it.

Manily job activites like forecast release, running macros, forecast creation etc.

Link below has steps for creating mass processiing jobs.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_apo/helpdata/en/0d/429bdb38ee11d3982b0000e8a49608/frameset.htm.

Main difference in these two is that process chains is related with BI while massprocessing is not.

In APO through process chains we can trigger loading of data in the infocubes and do all the activities related with BW which we cannot do through massprocessing.

Regards,

Chetana

[Former Member]

Hi Deepali,

Mass Processing is the collective management of processing an

application or a job or a set of fields so as to perform or execute

an activity

Process Chain:- As of SAP Supply Chain Management (SAP SCM) 4.1,

you can use this SAP NetWeaver Business Intelligence function together

with SCM transactions. It allows you to set up chains of background jobs.

For example, in Demand Planning you could program a chain that uploads

data from a data source to an InfoCube, generate any new characteristic

value combinations, upload the data from the InfoCube to a planning area,

carry out a forecast, and release the data to SNP. Each step should only

be carried out if the previous step finished without errors.

A process chain is a sequence of processes that are scheduled to wait in

the background for an event. Some of these processes trigger a separate

event that can, in turn, start other processes.

Regards

R. Senthil Mareeswaran.

[Former Member]

Dear Deepali

In the mass processing you cerate a one job with activity. In the process chain we put multiple created jobs in the sequence. Once we execute this process chain, jobs get scheduled one after another.

I hope this help you.

Amol