eSpline's Managing VC improves the process...

eSpline added governance to the VC & IPC change process that improves quality and productivity with a combination of software tools and partner software running on an eSpline hosted server or on a server behind your firewall. 

It is a long process and you go through many of these manually.  Governance can begin here:

 (1) Managing VC provides multiple ways to Extract a product model to an SaaS application
 (2) You make changes to a copied VC or IPC product model
 (3) You direct Managing VC to Extract the changed VC product model or IPC Kb
 (4) Now, there are two [2] versions of a VC or IPC product model [original and changed]
 (5) View the model characteristics, pre-conditions, materials, dependency nets, long text, etc. in an  easy to read HTML from or create a PDF with active links for easy navigation of the model
 (6) Compare the two models and see the differences highlighted in color, in seconds
 (7) Managing VC recognizes changes, creates a test case and sends the test case to ConfigScan (Automated VC Testing solution)
 (8) You click on the change and to make a comment or a request and send a message to your other VC Teams members or tester.
 (9) Managing VC sends an email with the message/comment for review and answer with a comment
(10) You may create additional, reusable test cases to automatically test your changes
(11) Then, you automatically test the changed model to make sure there are no conflicts resulting
(12) Repeat until the model behavior is stable and results are correct and documented
(13) ConfigScan informs Managing VC with a notification message that the test cases passed
(14) You review the changes and formally approve the changes with a click of the mouse
(15) You, direct an automatic move or upload of the changed model to a target SAP instance
(16) Create a Engineering Change Notice for the changes approved
(17) Then, you have Managing VC document and archive the model by including the Model View PDF generated report, the generated test cases, the new VC model, original VC model, the Managing VC log files and your original specifications. ..\..\

So, now you have planned the change, made the change, created test cases, tested the changes, compared the changes, reviewed the changes, approved and moved them to another instance.  This is a much improved governance process for managing your SAP models. 

You now have a history of the changes and tests.  You now have a repository of the changes with the original and new VC models and you have done it in nearly half the time as the manual process.  This is improved productivity. 

Except for making the model changes, the change process has been improved and automated.   Your model is thoroughly tested and the Project Manager has seen the test results, the changes and approved for production.