CASE STUDY/GLOBAL PLYWOOD MANUFACTURER

>50% faster SAP reporting through autonomous AI

Autonomous AI refactored a DB-heavy SAP report into HANA-aligned execution, cutting runtime in half while preserving 100% functional accuracy.

Pattern
Performance
~52%faster
Manual ABAP Intervention
Zerohuman refactoring
Delivery Velocity
1 dayvs 7 days
Functional Parity
100%post-optimization
THE CHALLENGE

Outdated ABAP Creating Performance and Migration Risk

As part of its S/4HANA migration initiative, the organization uncovered a growing risk inside its SAP ECC landscape: years of custom ABAP code written for legacy databases, not HANA.

Business-critical reports were running significantly slower than acceptable, impacting finance and operational teams. Many programs relied on outdated coding patterns that degraded performance as data volumes grew.

Traditional remediation estimates ranged from 1-2 weeks per program, making large-scale optimization impractical. The approach depended heavily on specialized ABAP expertise, increasing both delivery risk and cost.

With migration timelines under pressure, the organization needed a faster, safer alternative-without expanding teams or delaying transformation.

THE APPROACH

AI-Driven ABAP Optimization for S/4HANA Readiness

Sookti AI deployed autonomous agents to analyze and optimize the client’s custom SAP programs end-to-end.

The agents automatically:

Identified legacy ABAP patterns incompatible with HANA performance
Rewrote programs using modern, HANA-optimized structures
Applied SAP clean-core best practices by default
Validated outputs through automated regression testing to ensure accuracy

Each program was transformed in days instead of weeks, producing optimized, fully documented code ready for S/4HANA-with no human intervention required.

THE RESULTS

Measured on live enterprise workloads, Sookti AI restored performance to critical custom reports.

PROGRAM / REPORT
ZDSALEMIS_GST Report Runtime
BEFORE (LEGACY)
~8.63sec
AFTER (SOOKTI AI)
~4.16sec
PROGRAM / REPORT
DB Time Share
BEFORE (LEGACY)
~80.8%
AFTER (SOOKTI AI)
~52.9%
PROGRAM / REPORT
Outcome
BEFORE (LEGACY)
DB-boundexecution
AFTER (SOOKTI AI)
HANA-alignedscalable execution
PROGRAM / REPORT
Processing Balance
BEFORE (LEGACY)
ABAP waitingon database
AFTER (SOOKTI AI)
App-layerefficiency optimized
PROGRAM / REPORT
Scalability
BEFORE (LEGACY)
Fragileunder scale
AFTER (SOOKTI AI)
Predictableunder load

Execution shifted from DB-bound behavior to balanced, HANA-optimized processing through structural code refactoring.

Code refactored
4,889lines
STABILITY
ZEROregressions
OPERATIONAL RISK
100%eliminated
DOCUMENTATION
Automatic
WHAT CHANGED

Pro-Level Parallel Cursor Logic

Before
O(n²) Nested Loops
LOOP AT it_final1 ASSIGNING <gv>.
  " Legacy: Nested loop causes O(n*m) complexity
  LOOP AT it1_final ASSIGNING <gv1> 
    WHERE delv_no = <gv>-delv_no 
      AND length = <gv>-length.
    <gv>-bundle = <gv>-bundle + <gv1>-bundle.
  ENDLOOP.
ENDLOOP.
After
Parallel Cursor (O(n+m))
" Sort once for Parallel Cursor logic
SORT it1_final BY delv_no length.
DATA(lv_curr_idx) = 1.

LOOP AT it_final1 ASSIGNING <gv>.
  " Parallel Cursor: Linear traversal (O(n+m))
  LOOP AT it1_final ASSIGNING <gv1> FROM lv_curr_idx.
    IF <gv1>-delv_no < <gv>-delv_no.
      CONTINUE. " Skip to start of match
    ELSEIF <gv1>-delv_no > <gv>-delv_no.
      EXIT. " Early exit: No more matches possible
    ELSE.
      lv_curr_idx = sy-tabix. " Update starting point
      <gv>-bundle += <gv1>-bundle.
    ENDIF.
  ENDLOOP.
ENDLOOP.

For massive nested datasets, agents implement parallel cursors to scan two sorted tables simultaneously, avoiding repeated lookups.

ENGAGEMENT DETAILS

Aspect Details

Industry
Manufacturing (Plywood)
Landscape
SAP ECC S/4HANA (Brownfield)
Timeline
1 day vs 7 days
Delivery Partner
SGN Software

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