SAP FCc Evolution
SAP FCc (note the lower case c in cockpit) has three main roots:
- Schedule Manager to schedule and execute specific job chains, with limited additional functionality.
- Closing Cockpit (note the capital C in Cockpit) to define, schedule, execute and monitor task lists, with quite some functionality.
- SAP CPS, for advanced scheduling of process chains (not only batch jobs, any activity and across multiple systems)
Schedule Manager:
Available since R/3 4.6, using transaction SCMA (creating templates and task lists, executing task lists), straight within one SAP client only.
Closing Cockpit:
Uses transactions CLOCOC and CLOCO (creating templates and task lists, executing task lists), within one SAP Client. No advanced scheduling functionality; batch tasks are started at the indicated start date and start time. Contains monitoring and simple reporting functionality.
SAP Financial Closing cockpit:
Contains old Closing Cockpit functionality to perform your local close, and many enhancements centrally, like defining responsibilities and scheduling individual tasks. It introduces to run Closing Cockpit through a portal (web based application) to manage and execute tasks in your task list for the closing process, to adjust the schedules and responsibilities afterwards, and to access all information concerning a close (including the status, duration, logs, comments, and documents) for each task.
You can easily accomplish all tasks for a local close from and within a single central ERP system, accessing multiple systems.
It has the possibility to call 'Remote tasks' (CPS process chains). This enables you to centrally run and manage the local close in a distributed system landscape, storing the evidence in the central system.
Until EhP3 Closing Cockpit was developed independently from CPS, with independent ramp up. Nowadays the development, ramp up and delivery are integrated.