Process chains can be scheduled as processes in additional process chains, which are also called meta chains. In this case, a remote process chain is a local process in the BW system called. This system calls up a process chain that needs to be run by using a destination in another BW system. The remote process transfers the communication with the other system and synchronously starts the executed process chain. After terminating the process chain in another BW system, this is confirmed for the meta chain in the BW system called.

Before you can run a process chain in another BW system, you have to execute the following steps:

• Define the process chain, which needs to be run, in the BW system to be called.
• Maintain a destination for the BW system to be run.
• Maintain a destination, which is displayed back in your BW system, in the BW system to be called up.

With the help of the remote process chains, you can then schedule process chains from other BW systems in a chain in the BW system called.

In addition to remote process chains, you can also schedule local process chains as processes in a meta chain. A local process chain consists of processes that are scheduled in the same BW system as the meta chain. You schedule it as a process in the same BW system as the meta chain.