Different time zones between R/3 and APO

Hi experts,
Can anyone explain me which is the impact in having the R/3 in local time zone ( CDT, for example) and the APO in UTC?
Thanks in advance,
Regards,
Gyo

I believe you are mentioning about the SYSTEM TIME ZONE.
(Use transaction- STZAC to view it.)
Generally it is recommended that you maintain the same system time zone in APO similar to the time zone in R3.
However I remember in one of my implementation projects-4.1 SCM, we just left the SYSTEM TIME ZONE in APO to the default value given by SAP --(CET) whereas in R3 ,it was maintained as GMT.
(1) There were no issues as far as I remember.
(2) However we changed it to UTC/GMT( same time zone as that of R3) in APO after Go-Live with no issues at all
*We had our Basis Team contact SAP and they said that we could do so without any harm*
The reason for our change was that we wanted the BAck Order Processing results to update immediately based on
"1.1     Checking the Time Zone in SAP SCM
Use
This is an optional activity. Depending on your deployment of your SCM and ERP systems, the appropriate time zone should be customized in your system landscape. However, if you want to get the Backorder Processing result updated in the SAP ERP immediately, you’d better to set the two systems in the same time zones. You can get more details from the SAP note 443500.
http://help.sap.com/bp_bblibrary/500/documentation/T12_BB_ConfigGuide_EN_ZH.doc"
Also all the objects( Locations, Resources ..etc) should have a timezone maintained- Some of the them are automatically determined from R3 and sometimes you have to maintain.
Regards
Kumar Ayyagari

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