Safe Space Labs AI

Safe Space Labs AI — Custom Code Intelligence

Turn undocumented custom ABAP into a modernization decision system.

Discover what your custom developments do, where they matter, what they depend on and which migration path deserves investigation before committing resources to remediation.

Safe Space Labs AI transforms custom-code evidence into a structured catalog that architecture, functional and engineering teams can use throughout an S/4HANA program.

Custom code is difficult to modernize when nobody can confidently explain why it exists.

A mature SAP environment may contain developments created across many years, projects and implementation partners.

Some remain business critical. Some duplicate functionality that has since become available elsewhere. Some have dependencies nobody wants to disturb. Some may no longer be used.

The first modernization decision should therefore not be: How quickly can we rewrite this?

It should be: What is this development doing, who depends on it, and what is the right future-state treatment?

Safe Space Labs AI Custom Code Intelligence is designed to organize the evidence needed to answer that question.

Capabilities

Seven stages of custom-code intelligence

Discover

Create a structured inventory of custom development.

Normalize available information about custom SAP objects into a searchable catalog rather than leaving teams to work from disconnected spreadsheets and individual knowledge.

  • custom reports
  • interfaces
  • conversions
  • enhancements
  • forms
  • workflows
  • user exits
  • BADIs
  • custom classes
  • custom function modules
  • custom transactions
  • background programs
  • custom tables
  • custom APIs
  • other customer-developed objects

Output: Custom Development Catalog

Understand

Connect technical objects to the business processes they support.

A program name alone rarely tells an S/4HANA team enough. Custom Code Intelligence should help identify likely functional domains, related process steps, impacted applications, dependencies and relevant business context.

  • Order-to-Cash
  • Procure-to-Pay
  • Record-to-Report
  • Plan-to-Produce
  • Hire-to-Retire
  • Asset Management
  • Supply Chain
  • Warehouse Management
  • Finance
  • Sales
  • Procurement
  • Human Resources

Output: Business Process Impact Map

Document

Reconstruct the knowledge that disappeared with the original project team.

Where reliable source information is available, AI-assisted analysis can help create a first-draft explanation of custom development. Each generated object record should be capable of containing purpose, functional summary, technical summary, inputs, outputs, key logic, tables accessed, interfaces, dependencies, enhancement points, authorization considerations, batch dependencies, error handling, potential business owner, related processes and migration considerations.

Output: AI-Assisted Functional and Technical Documentation

Generated documentation should be validated against source code, system behavior and qualified business or technical review before being treated as authoritative.

Connect

See what could break before changing what looks obsolete.

Retirement decisions require more than understanding an object's primary purpose. The analysis model should support relationships between programs, transactions, tables, classes, function modules, interfaces, batch jobs, enhancements, APIs, business processes, downstream systems and upstream systems.

Output: Technical Dependency Map

Decide

Evaluate the future of each custom requirement, not just the code.

The platform should support a structured assessment of future-state treatment using Safe Space Labs categories: RETIRE, STANDARDIZE, CONFIGURE, EXTEND, MODERNIZE and INVESTIGATE when evidence is insufficient for a defensible decision.

Output: Clean-Core Decision Record

Prioritize

Separate business-critical custom development from expensive technical baggage.

Create an analytical model capable of considering usage frequency, business criticality, technical complexity, change frequency, dependency count, support effort, upgrade impact, security considerations, data sensitivity, availability of alternatives and migration complexity. When usage data is unavailable, clearly show: Usage data not provided.

Output: Custom Code Modernization Scorecard

Execute

Convert analysis into an actionable S/4HANA remediation backlog.

Analysis becomes valuable when a program team can turn it into work. Allow conceptual grouping by retire, replace with standard, configuration change, in-app extension, developer extensibility, BTP side-by-side extension, integration redesign, ABAP modernization and further assessment activities.

Output: S/4HANA Custom Code Backlog

Make custom-code knowledge reusable across the entire program.

A searchable workspace containing one record per custom object — with functional and technical descriptions, business-process mapping, dependencies, usage evidence, clean-core assessment and linked project decisions.

Illustrative Example — not customer dataExample Manufacturing Corp.

ZSSL_VENDOR_SYNC

Interface

Purpose
Synchronizes selected supplier attributes between a legacy operational process and a downstream application.
Business Areas
ProcurementSupplier Management
Dependencies
Supplier master dataOutbound integrationBackground processing
AssessmentINVESTIGATE
Usage

Example data only

Reason

Additional evidence is required to determine whether the future S/4HANA architecture eliminates, replaces or modernizes the requirement.

From custom-code evidence to modernization decisions

  1. Stage 1

    Collect

    Import approved source-code metadata, extracts or other available technical evidence.

  2. Stage 2

    Enrich

    Generate classifications, summaries, relationships and candidate business-process mappings.

  3. Stage 3

    Evaluate

    Combine technical evidence, usage information and functional context to assess modernization paths.

  4. Stage 4

    Validate

    SAP architects, developers and process owners review AI-generated findings.

  5. Stage 5

    Prioritize

    Convert approved conclusions into the S/4HANA modernization backlog.

  6. Stage 6

    Preserve

    Maintain validated findings as reusable transformation knowledge.

Two ingestion approaches

File-Based Analysis

Planned

Approved source-code exports and associated metadata are securely provided for analysis.

Connected Analysis

Concept

An authorized extraction mechanism collects approved technical information using controlled access.

One analysis, multiple transformation work products

Custom-code inventoryRICEFW classificationObject-level documentationBusiness-process mappingDependency analysisUsage overlayComplexity assessmentClean-core assessmentS/4HANA remediation recommendationMigration risk indicatorsModernization backlogProgram-level dashboardObject-level decision record

Technical dependency example

FromToType
ZSSL_VENDOR_SYNCLFA1reads
ZSSL_VENDOR_SYNCZSSL_VENDOR_OUTcalls
ZSSL_VENDOR_SYNCProcure-to-Paysupports
ZSSL_ORDER_REVIEWVBAKreads
ZSSL_FIN_RECONBKPFreads

AI-generated analysis, specifications and code are decision-support materials and should be reviewed by appropriately qualified SAP, security, architecture and engineering professionals before implementation.

Start your S/4HANA program with a better understanding of what you already own.

See how Safe Space Labs AI can organize legacy custom-development evidence into a reviewable modernization backlog for your architecture and engineering teams.