Case Study: Biesterfeld Group optimizes SAP batch job scheduling with HONICO BatchMan

Biesterfeld‘s migration from IBM TWS to BatchMan in no time

Biesterfeld Group, through its IT service provider BIT-SERV GmbH, needed to replace IBM Tivoli Workload Scheduler ahead of a SAP ERP 6.0 EHP 8 and SLES 15 upgrade. Over years of growth, their SAP batch-job dependencies had become inconsistent, sometimes causing issues in business processes, so they were looking for a modern alternative for scheduling and monitoring SAP background jobs.

HONICO’s BatchMan was chosen for its seamless SAP integration and broad functionality. After a smooth proof-of-concept and just 3 days of consulting support, the first critical jobs were running in BatchMan; within the following month, BIT-SERV migrated all jobs from the old scheduler. The result was greater transparency, centralized monitoring, and cleaner job control, with room for further optimization through parallelization and corrected dependencies.

Biesterfeld Group

Sabine Haarich

Head of SAP Consulting