Anyone using SAP with Taleo/OTAC?

Summary

SAP requires a Position Number and i'm curious how and at what point in your process are you entering this value.

Content

We currently fill out a form in SAP which does a few things:

• creates a Requisition in Taleo (in draft)
• generates a Position Number out of SAP
• places this Position Number onto the draft req

I am working to move the creation of the Position Number FROM the beginning of the req process TO the Offer Step at which point we could enter in the Position Number into our Staging Table.

Has anyone encountered any issues doing so? How are you managing the Position Numbers? Please let me know so as I'm working with an SAP Consultant who is not a proponent to my proposal. Because of this limitation: