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ABAP for Functional Consultants
Anthony Cecchini, President, I
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Founded in 1993, Women Owned 8(M), Small Business Certified with a GSA IT 70 Schedule,
we focus solely on SAP. IT Partners has 20 years of experience helping both large and midsize
companies, and Government Entities.
Anthony has 17 years of experience in SAP R/3 business process analysis and SAP systems
integration. His areas of expertise include SAP NetWeaver integration; ALE development;
RFC, BAPI, IDoc, Dialog, and Web Dynpro development; and customized Workflow development.
IT Partners, Inc.
Experience Matters….

IT Partners, Inc.
Experience Matters….
SAP consultants come in all shapes
and sizes from the extreme techie
guys that can only communicate in
binary code, to those smooth talking
‘gift of the gab’ salesman like
functional consultants who run in
fear at the thought of discussing
anything technical. When a project
gets on the way, somehow the two
must meet and work together. Being
a “Techie” - I want to help bridge this
chasm and help functional
consultants “Crack the Code” and
gain some footing with this
presentation.
“Cracking the Code”

IT Partners, Inc.
Experience Matters….
A functional consultant evaluates the
demands in talking with the customer's
representatives, transforms the essence
into an abstract and algorithmic business
model. Hence, he/she identifies the use
cases and transforms them into logical
views.
Then the main task starts: customizing the
respective business area and making sure
the system reacts in the manner according
to the constraints of the requested use
case.
Along with this an SAP functional
consultant needs to develop functional
specifications.
Functional Consultant
ROLES

IT Partners, Inc.
Experience Matters….
Technical consultants plan the technical
requirements for an object with the
Functional Consultant and the manager
of the technical team and then carry out
the required technical tasks in the
system. Depending on the scope and
complexity of the implementation,
technical consultants may work in
several areas, for example, system
administration, database administration,
network administration, operating
system administration, development of
cross-application components, or ABAP
Development.
Along with this an SAP Technical
consultant needs to develop Technical
specifications.
Technical Consultant
ROLES

IT Partners, Inc.
Experience Matters….
While the Functional Consultant defines
and isolates the GAP in the Use Case, the
Technical Consultant decides the best
Technical Realization in achieving the
“Goal” or end state desired.
My assertion is, the quality, stability, and
overall integrity of the process is
increased (x) fold by collaboration from
start to finish.