Best Practices for APO Production Support

What are the best practices needs to be adopt for APO Production Support? in DP, SNP, PP/DS, CIF, APO-basis, APO -ABAP area?

I know this is not the standard way to reach you, but you answered a question long back about /SAPAPO/AMON1 - Alert Monitor.  Can this alert monitor be configured to show up in the universal worklist (UWL) in the portal?  if so would these alerts show up in the alert inbox of the uwl just as other sap alerts do? (the other alerts i speak of are those referenced here (http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/3f/81023cfa699508e10000000a11402f/frameset.htm).
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    u2013 Presales and contracts
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    u2013 Inter- and intracompany processes
    u2013 Cross-company sales
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    u2022 Processing internal sales activities that involve different organizational units
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