CIF variant tables (VC) from ECC to SCM(APO)

Dear Experts,

Is it possible to transfer variant tables from ECC to APO

does APO is design to understand variant tables

i was told variant tables cannot be used in APO

but understand OD can be transferred but not variant tables , if we have so many variants in variant configuration what is the alternative to Variant tables as we are into CDP 

Regards

Raj