Saint-Gobain Abrasivos optimized the performance of their SAP R/3 environment which reduced month-end closing times from 65 hours and 45 minutes to 32 hours and 49 minutes. Several transactions and programs saw performance improvements of 50-100% after addressing expensive statements, terminated processes, and hardware resource exhaustion. The optimization provided benefits like decreased response times, increased hardware capacity, and improved business processes.

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performance in SAP R/3 environment
Case Saint-Gobain Abrasivos

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Content
• Saint-Gobain Abrasivos;
• Before optimization;
• After optimization;
• Benefíts;
• Snapshots;

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Success Case Saint-Gobain Abrasivos
Performance SAP R/3 environment
 Performance Gain - Month closing
 Performance Gain - Daily process

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Saint-Gobain Abrasivos
• 8 Productive Plants and 11 Sales point;
• Sales Order 50.000/month;
• Production Order 12.000/month;
• Material 260.000

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Before optimization
Month closing times
JOBS January/05
CCA Process 04:21:00
CO-PC Process 27:11:00
Material Ledger Process 29:57:00
ABAP WIP 04:16:00
Total 65:45:00

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Before optimization
Transactions / Programms with
Performance loss
 MIRO
 FBL1N/ 3N / 5N
 CO88
 Programm “Z “ Vendor ( transaction F110)
 Programm “Z “ Reliability Report
 Programm “Z “ WIP

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After optimization
Month closing times
JOBS July/05
CCA process 04:05:00
CO-PC process 08:08:00
Material Ledger process 20:05:00
ABAP WIP 00:31:00
Total 32:49:00

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After optimization
Transactions / Programms
Transactions / Programms Performance
Gains
MIRO 100 %
FBL1N/ 3N / 5N 60 %
CO88 50 %
Programm “Z “ Vendor (Tr. F110) 100 %
Programm “Z “ Reliability Report 100 %
Programa “Z “ Contabilização WIP 100 %

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Benefits
 Avarage response Time decreased;
 Month closing execution in 2 days;
 Increased Hardware capacity;
 Best IT image and increased all business process
(ROI);

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MAR/2005:

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MAR/2005:

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MAR/2005:
EarlyWatch
Area Indicators Value Trend
System Performance Active Users 281 up
Avg. Response Time in Dialog Task 1625 ms up
Max. Dialog Steps per Hour 25580 up
Avg. Response Time at Peak Dialog Hour 1478 ms steady
Avg. Availability per Week 96 % up
Database Performance Avg. DB Request Time in Dialog Task 768 ms steady
Avg. DB Request Time in Update Task 753 ms up

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MAR/2005:
EarlyWatch
Priority Description New Alert
High Some expensive statements were found. New
High Terminated update processes were found in your system. New
High The hardware resources are exhausted. New
Medium Performance problems exist or are expected. New
Medium Update your SAP R/3 Plug-In to the latest release available. New
Medium We found many ABAP dumps in your system. New

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JUN/2005:

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JUN/2005:
EarlyWatch
Area Indicators Value Trend
System Performance Active Users 296 up
Avg. Response Time in Dialog Task 1087 ms down
Max. Dialog Steps per Hour 26670 down
Avg. Response Time at Peak Dialog Hour 1157 ms down
Avg. Availability per Week 100 % up
Database Performance Avg. DB Request Time in Dialog Task 511 ms down
Avg. DB Request Time in Update Task 578 ms down

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JUN/2005:
EarlyWatch
Priority Description New Alert
High At least one ABAP dump of type 'SAPSQL_ARRAY_INSERT_DUPREC' was found. New
High Terminated update processes were found in your system. New
Medium Missing indexes were identified in the database. New
Medium Update your SAP R/3 Plug-In to the latest release available. New
Medium Some checks could not be performed. New