Sort & Parallelism costing my query too much time - sql

Question

My SQL query is taking a large amount of time to run. I wrote a similar query and pit them against each other and this one runs FASTER when a small dataset (10K lines) is used, but about 20-30x slower than the other one when a LARGE dataset (500K+ lines) is used. My first query however does not have ONE column that I need, and I cannot add it without going about it with this different approach.
SELECT a.[RFIDTAGID], a.[JOB_NUMBER], d.[PROJECT_NUMBER], a.[PART_NUMBER], a.[QUANTITY], b.[DESIGNATION] as LOCATION,
c.[DESIGNATION] as CONTAINER, a.[LAST_SEEN_TIME], b.[TYPE], b.[BLDG], d.[PBG], d.[PLANNED_MFG_DELIVERY_DATE], d.[EXTENSION_DATE], a.[ORG_ID]
FROM [LTS].[dbo].[LTS_PACKAGE] as a
LEFT OUTER JOIN (
SELECT [DESIGNATION], [CONTAINER_ID], [LOCATION_ID]
FROM [LTS].[dbo].[LTS_CONTAINER]
) c ON a.[CONTAINER_ID] = c.[CONTAINER_ID]
LEFT OUTER JOIN (
SELECT [DESIGNATION], [TYPE], [BLDG], [LOCATION_ID]
FROM [LTS].[dbo].[LTS_LOCATION]
) b ON a.[LAST_SEEN_LOC_ID] = b.[LOCATION_ID] OR b.[LOCATION_ID] = c.[LOCATION_ID]
INNER JOIN (
SELECT [PBG], [PLANNED_MFG_DELIVERY_DATE], [EXTENSION_DATE], [DISCRETE_JOB_NUMBER], [PROJECT_NUMBER]
FROM [LTS].[dbo].[LTS_DISCRETE_JOB_SUMMARY]
)d ON a.[JOB_NUMBER] = d.[DISCRETE_JOB_NUMBER]
WHERE
d.[PLANNED_MFG_DELIVERY_DATE] <= GETDATE()
AND b.[TYPE] NOT IN('MFG', 'Manufacturing')
AND (b.[DESIGNATION] IS NOT NULL OR c.[DESIGNATION] IS NOT NULL)
ORDER BY [JOB_NUMBER], d.[PLANNED_MFG_DELIVERY_DATE] desc, [RFIDTAGID];
You can see below the usage, 100% is roughly 20,000, whereas my other query is about 900:
Is there something I can do to speed up my query, or where did I bog it down?

Answer 1

Remove inner selects and join directly to the tables:
SELECT a.[RFIDTAGID], a.[JOB_NUMBER], d.[PROJECT_NUMBER], a.[PART_NUMBER], a.[QUANTITY], b.[DESIGNATION] as LOCATION,
c.[DESIGNATION] as CONTAINER, a.[LAST_SEEN_TIME], b.[TYPE], b.[BLDG], d.[PBG], d.[PLANNED_MFG_DELIVERY_DATE], d.[EXTENSION_DATE], a.[ORG_ID]
FROM [LTS].[dbo].[LTS_PACKAGE] a
LEFT OUTER JOIN [LTS].[dbo].[LTS_CONTAINER]
c ON a.[CONTAINER_ID] = c.[CONTAINER_ID]
LEFT OUTER JOIN [dbo].[LTS_LOCATION]
b ON a.[LAST_SEEN_LOC_ID] = b.[LOCATION_ID] OR b.[LOCATION_ID] = c.[LOCATION_ID]
INNER JOIN
[LTS].[dbo].[LTS_DISCRETE_JOB_SUMMARY]
d ON a.[JOB_NUMBER] = d.[DISCRETE_JOB_NUMBER]
WHERE
d.[PLANNED_MFG_DELIVERY_DATE] <= GETDATE()
AND b.[TYPE] NOT IN('MFG', 'Manufacturing')
AND (b.[DESIGNATION] IS NOT NULL OR c.[DESIGNATION] IS NOT NULL)
ORDER BY [JOB_NUMBER], d.[PLANNED_MFG_DELIVERY_DATE] desc, [RFIDTAGID];