Initial-/full-sync performance improvement - parallel communication with SAP FSM

The hereby described performance improvement is handled by the upgraded transporter. The minimum required version of the FSM Cloud Connector add-on is 200.

The initial and full-sync process performance can be significantly improved. To achieve this, enable parallel upload flow of the SAP FSM Transporter component by increasing the number of allowed upload batches.

Click to read more about the SAP FSM Transporter component

The transporter component is responsible for connecting SAP FSM with ERP connectors such as the FSM Cloud Connector. The Transporter has the following functionalities:

Download new/changed/deleted objects from SAP FSM
Upload of ERP new/changed/deleted objects to SAP FSM
Upload of logs
Upload of system information to SAP FSM
Download of metadata from SAP FSM
Support for "request objects" - objects that are not persisted in the SAP system, but calculated and then uploaded back to SAP FSM (e.g. prices for a Sales Order)

How to enable the parallel mode for initial and full-sync

Ensure that the SAP FSM company setting ‘TransporterSettings.MaxParallelUploadBatches’ has value higher than 1.

0 - the upload is stopped (on hold)
1 - the parallel upload is disabled, the batches are uploaded sequentially (default value)
n - the maximum parallel upload batches is n

Performance improvement example

The following table presents the test results of full-sync process carried out for around 55 000 objects (Equipment and Address objects were used):

No. of threads	Duration	Speed up factor
1	18 min. 42 seconds	Regular speed
5	06 min. 09 seconds	3x
10	03 min. 49 seconds	5x
20	03 min. 32 seconds	5x