The one and only important thing to act as integration consultant is to know the general functionalities of APO modules and a clear knowledge & understanding in CIF.

The mandate of integration consultant is to ensure that there is no business loss to the company because of some transaction data not transferring between SAP and APO.

If a planned order is not transferred to SAP, the production of certain materials may not be done and this may result in loss of business due to stock out.

Similarly if a sales order or a change thereto is not transferred to APO, the planning results may be wrong resulting in business loss to the client on account of lost sale and unwanted stock.

So the duties of Integration consultant include:

• To properly set up the system and connections.
• To closely monitor the data transfer activities and report and get the errors quickly resolved from functional persons.
• Guiding the users for proper maintenance of master data as most of CIF errors are attributable to wrong data maintenance.

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