How the SAP Change Impact Agent Works

Model judgment inside deterministic guardrails.

An SAP Explore workshop produces narrative decisions. The agent turns them into structured impacts without pretending that schema validation is factual validation.

Input

As-Is + To-Be

Stage 1

Understand

Stage 2

Retrieve

Stage 3

Compare

Stage 4

Validate

Owner

Business review

OCM

OCM plan

OCM

Lifecycle

Eight teaching points

The architecture in plain language

MCP is not the model. A schema is not truth. The agent proposes; the business owns.

Structured output

The schema guarantees shape and types. It does not guarantee that a claim is factually correct.

The model API

Qwen runs server-side through an OpenAI-compatible provider. Secrets never enter the browser.

Tools

Tools calculate or retrieve bounded information. They are capabilities—not hidden reasoning.

MCP

Resources are application-selected context; tools are callable functions exposed through a standard protocol.

Bounded loop

The model may retrieve, draft, validate, and repair, but the run stops after at most six model steps.

Evidence and controls

Every material impact cites evidence. Code recalculates severity and rejects broken references.

Human review

The business owner accepts, edits, dismisses, adds, and ultimately marks the report reviewed.

OCM handoff

Accepted and edited impacts become traceable actions with owners, dates, status, and an explicit lifecycle through hypercare.

Interpret and propose

The model compares narrative states, selects relevant synthetic context, drafts impacts, identifies role changes, and turns missing decisions into questions.

Evidence is inspectable

expands into the supplied workshop statement—not a hidden model thought.

Workshop decision 3

Discounts greater than 10% require sales-manager approval.

Replay the safe agent trace

From lab to enterprise

What would change in production

Enterprise identity, approved process repositories, customer-specific governance, observability, data-retention controls, and formal validation would be added before real workshop content is used.