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Track Every Change & Improve Model Quality
Avenue Managing VC or Aveue Managing SSC has an extensive Health Check where SAP product models are examined for errors, syntax and best practices. The report is a very nice solution to keep models performing at their optimum and to help assure modelers are following recommended modeling practices. Compliance to modeling standards can now be monitored no matter where the model resides or is being maintained.
SAP Variant Configurator or SSC users now have improved control and governance because Avenue Managing VC/SSC tracks every change in SAP VC and SSC product models and that results in improved quality and traceability of changes across all versions of the VC model (in Avenue Managing VC).
eSpline consultants experienced first hand the manual processes of identifying a change to a VC or IPC model, then making changes to the VC product model, communicating that the change was made, showing the change was made and proving the change was tested and then reviewing the change so the tested model can be moved to production. But, how do you document that change? How do you document the model? How does one validate the entire process?
Most checking processes are similar but virtually all are manual. Control is only as good as the processes that have been created internally and any manual process is at best, inconsistent. The eSpline Managing VC solution offers a consistent method that will improve the change process and increase the quality of VC models at the same time and shorten process times (by customer example) by as much as 40% that it takes to get a change to production.
Avenue Managing VC can be used as a tool to assist during an audit of specification changes where all changes can be examined across all versions of a product model. All annotations are noted, all tasks are saved and each task status is noted when changed. Avenue Managing VC provides the documentation of the changes and also the final version of a product model. All have been missing in an automated solution. Avenue Managing VC is also used to compare SAP product models on different SAP instances to determine if they are the same.
“I do want to say, I did a trial with a couple of models and did the compare. Since we are still manually copying data, I did a compare between our production version and test version. I was able to find data issues that saved us a ton of time if we would have gone live with the issues!”
Managing VC and Change