Role of a functional consultant in an upgrade project

Hello friends,
My client is planning for an upgrade of 4.7 to ECC 6.0.
Could you pls give me some info regarding the Role of a functional consultant in an upgrade project.
Naveen

The role of a functional consultant in an Upgrade depends on the scope of the project.
whether it is a Technical Upgrade or a Functional Upgrade.
Following would be some of responsibilities -
Coordinate with Client  Business/Functional Team to identify critical business processes, understand the functionality of the custom developments
Overall Test Planning, Preparation of Test Plans, test scripts and executing Unit and Integration testing
Providing clarifications for functional related issues during UAT
It is is functional upgrade analyze which custom functionalities can be retired and which can be brought back to standard.
Prepare a POC on the recommended new functionalities on how these would be useful for the Client.
Training the Client super users
Preparing training documents
Analyzing the obsolete transacations and modifying the documents with the new transactions
Hope this helps you.

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