Redwood’s RunMyJobs Powers SAP S/4HANA Investment

⇨ Historically, SAP allowed extensive customization of its ERP source code, leading to maintenance challenges. With SAP S/4HANA, the core business processes such as order to cash, design to operate, procure to pay, are optimized to function without custom code.

⇨ While customization needs can be met through the SAP BTP platform, where users can develop custom process logic, ensuring the ERP core remains streamlined and efficient, the solution to this is a comprehensive workload automation platform that enables mission-critical processes to keep the organization growing.

⇨ Redwood Software’s RunMyJobs (RMJ) enables and maintains a clean core by providing out-of-the-box connectors to SAP S/4HANA, pre-built automation templates, and advanced automation capabilities that define business rules, intelligent reactions, and SLA management, all without the need for custom code.

RISE with SAP is a comprehensive offering designed to facilitate the transition of SAP customers from legacy ERP systems to the advanced SAP S/4HANA cloud ERP. Recognizing the significant investments customers have made in their existing ERP solutions over decades, SAP aims to ease this transition through RISE with SAP by addressing key challenges and providing a holistic solution. The program includes components such as Cloud ERP SAP S/4HANA, SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP), and other cloud services to meet complex requirements while using standard capabilities.

A critical aspect of the transition to SAP S/4HANA is maintaining a “Clean Core,” a concept SAP promotes to minimize customization within the ERP itself. Historically, SAP allowed extensive customization of its ERP source code, leading to maintenance challenges. With SAP S/4HANA, the core business processes such as order to cash, design to operate, procure to pay, are optimized to function without custom code. While customization needs can be met through the SAP BTP platform, where users can develop custom process logic, ensuring the ERP core remains streamlined and efficient, the solution to this is a comprehensive workload automation platform that enables mission-critical processes to keep the organization growing.

Redwood Software’s RunMyJobs (RMJ) enables and maintains a clean core by providing out-of-the-box connectors to SAP S/4HANA, pre-built automation templates, and advanced automation capabilities that define business rules, intelligent reactions, and SLA management, all without the need for custom code. Its modern SaaS architecture supports fully automated processes seamlessly. Given that legacy job schedulers often contain custom code due to years of use and adaptations, switching to RMJ allows companies to transition to SAP S/4HANA without adding any custom code to either RMJ or SAP S/4HANA.

This integration ensures a streamlined and efficient ERP environment, aligning with the goals of the RISE with SAP program. Redwood’s RunMyJobs Enterprise Workload Automation addresses the issues of fragmented and isolated IT and business operations. By supporting digital transformation, it enhances efficiency and agility in hybrid, digital enterprises. Utilizing a SaaS-based architecture, RunMyJobs offers a highly flexible automation solution. It enables secure and reliable orchestration across various applications, services, and servers, whether in the cloud or on-premises, all through a unified enterprise platform built for scalability and growth.

As SAP’s trusted partner for job scheduling since 2004, RunMyJobs offers seamless integration, as the platform integrates effortlessly with pre-built connectors for SAP S/4HANA, BTP, and other SAP solutions, along with an extensive catalog of system integrations. RunMyJobs offers flexibility and future-proof connectivity with unrestricted connections to any application, system, or environment.

Built for the hybrid cloud, it ensures performance, reliability, and security with 99.95% uptime, lightweight agents, and a single-tenant architecture, making it a robust solution for scaling and growth. For example, Kaeser Compressors, a leading manufacturer and supplier of compressed air products and services, after relying on SAP BPA on-premises for a decade to manage system automation, discovered that SAP was ending support for its custom Java stack, affecting many products, including BPA.

Kaeser decided to transition from SAP BPA to Redwood’s RunMyJobs, moving from an on-premises setup to a SaaS model. This switch allowed Kaeser to continue using familiar automation technology while freeing the IT team from tedious updates and maintenance. Redwood optimized Kaeser’s critical business processes, including sales and distribution logistics, accounting, and their Global Trade System (GTS). Redwood improved automation efficiency and reduced administrative efforts, enabling a small core team to centrally manage all automation tasks and quickly intervene when necessary.

RunMyJobs by Redwood can deliver on this and also help keep operations going while going thru a RISE with SAP transition.