Industry: Automotive Manufacturing (Tier One Supplier to Global OEMs)
Region: Germany (EMEA Operations)
Business Driver: Rising HANA licensing costs and degraded Universal Journal performance, compounded by the complexity of safely compressing and archiving ACDOCA data
Overview
A Germany-based Tier 1 automotive supplier operates 47 plants across 19 countries, supplying precision components to OEMs including BMW and Volkswagen. Following its S/4HANA migration, the company processed over 180 million financial postings annually. Within 18 months, the ACDOCA table grew to 14.2TB, consuming 68% of available HANA memory and triggering recurring licensing escalations and slowing overall financial reporting.
Challenges
- Data expanding at 3 to 4TB annually due to high-volume intercompany postings and material ledger activity
- HANA memory consumption is driving continuous licensing increases with no sustainable reduction strategy
- Month-end close queries extending beyond 6 hours, impacting statutory reporting timelines
- SAP data aging retains data within HANA, offering minimal memory relief
- Regulatory requirements mandating 10-year retention, preventing deletion of historical financial data
- Inability to safely execute compression runs during archiving, where line items are aggregated into totals (BSTAT = “C”), creating risk of losing financial traceability and audit-level detail
Business Requirements
- Offload ACDOCA data older than 24 months from HANA while preserving full financial document integrity
- Restore financial reporting performance without impacting current operations
- Provide fast, audit-ready access to archived journal entries
- Ensure compliance with EU financial regulations through governed retention and secure data access controls
- Establish a scalable data lifecycle strategy ahead of future S/4HANA upgrades
Solution
The organization implemented Archon Data Store for SAP to execute an application-aware archiving strategy for ACDOCA.
- Archived 12.1TB of historical ACDOCA data based on retention policies aligned to fiscal periods, company codes, and business activity, while managing compression runs to ensure accurate aggregation of line items into totals without loss of financial context
- Preserved full document relationships across ACDOCA, BKPF, and related financial tables, ensuring both line-item detail and compressed totals remained fully traceable for audit integrity
- Moved historical data out of HANA into a compressed, query-optimized archive repository
- Enabled business users to access archived data through a web interface with SAP-like structures and drill-down capability
- Enforced governance through role-based access, retention policies, and immutable data storage to ensure audit readiness
Business Outcomes
If ACDOCA growth is increasing your HANA costs and slowing financial reporting, Archon helps you offload historical data while maintaining governance, compliance, and audit-ready access.
Speak with our team to assess your current footprint and define a scalable archiving strategy.
