SAP SRM slowness in creating a shopping cart "Error 500 connection timed out"

What a start to the week! so there was planned user testing scheduled for this week on the new SRM SAP systems specifically MDM catalog and shopping cart but as it gets in IT things aint working when they should be !!!

After numerous checks I focused on checking the backend system. Important note is that most issues faced on SAP portal systems are actually resolved in the backend system if the portal configuration is done right. So check your RFC connections between the portal and backend systems.

Also in the portal Netweaver Admin link , enable caching. After fixing some RFC's and enabling the web page caching in the portal the process became lightening fast!