How to view SAP support pack schedule?

 

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§      How to view SAP support pack schedule?

§      Where can we get SAP support pack schedule information?

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In real time, you may wish to perform support pack upgrade for an application like ECC. In those cases, you may be interested to know, when is the next support pack stack release for specific application, so that you can plan upgrade accordingly.

You can get SAP support pack schedule from Service Market Place(SMP).

To view the SAP support pack schedule, please navigate as follows:

In SMP, Go to “Software Downloads” tab  -> “SAP Software Download Center” -> “SAP Support package stacks” -> SP Stacks maintenance schedule

Please refer below screenshot which shows the navigation

On the right side of the above screen, you can view the release week of every application. The week number on which support package stack will be released for each application will be given. The week number starts at 1 (indicating 1^st week of Jan) and it goes on.

You can have complete view of the schedule by collapsing the left side window.

In the above screenshot, you can view that SAP ERP 6.0 ,  support pack level 23 will be released in 16^thweek of 2013 in Quarter 2.

Similarly SAP Netweaver 7.0, support pack level 28 will be released on 4^th week of 2013 in Quarter1