Automatically output report to excel from a batch job

We have business users who require that a standard report be run daily as a batch job and output to a printer, which is using a large pile of paper every day. I have challenged the rationale for this without success, and am trying to find a way to continue to run the batch job but output the report to an excel file and e-mail it to a manager. I know that this can be done by a good ABAP programmer, but I am trying to find a way to set up the batch job to do this without additional ABAP, as programming resources are very limited. I would appreciate input from anybody who knows how to do this.

Likely because your user is continuing to call the service in a Windows (classic) DOMAIN\username format, and not in the Claims identity it should be.
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