Sales order Bapi

Hi,

I am working on performance tunning project, one the report is having performance issue. After I did runtime analysis, came to know tht BAPI_SALESORDER_GETSTATUS is taking 73% of database time and sometimes ends up in time out short dump. Is there any way to avoide using BAPI, I looked for other functions modules but couldn't really find any. Can anyone of you please suggest me the work around for the same.

Many thanks in advance.

Regards

Hema