Apps Consultant
There are four different roles in ERP
Functional Consultant
Technical Consultant
Apps DBA
System Administrator
Functional Consultant
Will be spending most of the time in meetings & writing documents
FC should have a thorough knowledge of the overall ERP system & how it hangs together knowing the dependency between various modules.
Pros of Functional path
Legislation & business roles do not change as often as technology changes. Hence knowledge can be carried forward from one version to another
Cons of Functional Path
Too much time is wasted in meetings
Impossible to keep away from office politics
Technical consultant
The main advantage of Technical consultant is there will an average of 3 to 5 technical consultant for 1 functional. Hence more job opportunities
Cons of Technical Path
Technical consultant has to keep up with ever changing Technology
Because Self service personalizations work is more moving towards functional domain
Apps DBA
Apps DBA role is to do Installation, Support,Upgrade, Patching & Performance Tuning
System Administrator
Create and Administer Users and Responsibilities
Assign Responsibilities to Users
Register a Custom Application
Create a Data Group
Associate Applications to Data Groups
Create and Modify Menus
Role Based Access Control
Manage Concurrent Programs and Reports
Administer Concurrent Managers
Manage Profile Options
Techno-Functional consultants
Consultant has the responsibility of finding solution to business gaps in Oracle Apps functionality.
Design & development also done by the consultant , basically end to end delivery from analysis to development to testing to go live