VC Model in SAP

This is a view of a Variant Configurator product model running in SAP.  This is the product model that can be extracted from your SAP instance and imported to to the eSpline Avenue Portal and then imported to BigMachines.  That is the first step in the process.  Today the process has several manual steps and in the near future will have more of a hands-off process.

For now, you are required to login the eSpline Avenue Portal and then to your SAP instance to import the model.  Once the product model is in the eSpline Avenue Portal, you have the option to view the model in html or pdf with the Avenue Model View and then we recomend running a Avenue Health Check report to determine if there will be any issues with the SAP VC model that might cause a translation problem.

Import the VC Model

Here eSpline uses a customer tested capability to extract the Variant Configurator product model from an SAP instance.  There are multiple choices for the process however, in any circumstance, the extract is a read-only process.  The VC model(s) are imported to the cloud and into eSpline's Avenue Portal, processed and made ready for the translation. 

View the VC product model

This an abbreviated view of the SAP VC product model.  The screens illustrate three html pages that are a part of the entire model view report.         Avenue Model View details....   

VC Health Check for BigMachines

We recommend when translating a SAP VC product model for the first few times you might want to execute the Avenue Health Check Report and refer specifically to the Formatting for BigMachines category.   Of course, there are about 8 other categories to review as well to help assure the VC model is in "good health".  

Other SAP VC categories that you might be interested in include: 1) Checks for performance pitfalls, 2) Good practices for Modeling Style, 3) Syntax, 4) Application Link Enabling (ALE) or 5) Characteristic Based Planning.