Configuration management (LO-CM) used with Variant configuration (LO-VC)

Hi
I am new to SAP, working with Variant configuration (LO-VC).
I wish to enforce configuration management during development of a new Variant configurator.
Would Configuration management (LO-CM) work together with Variant configuration (LO-VC)?
My expectation is that SAP Configuration management (LO-CM) will work similar to solutions like e.g. MsVisualSourceSafe, SubVersion, CVS, IBM/Rational ClearCase etc. in the software development domain.
best regards Henrik

Hi Amber
Thanks a lot for answer, and please apologize my late response.
I am not confused by the term 'configuration', being used in two different meanings.
(1) Variant configuration (VC) is the dicipline of creating product variants by making a set of choises from the characteristics describing the product. A complete and consistent set of choises is a 'configuration'.
(2) Configuration Management in the 'traditional' software development meaning: Software Configuration Management (SCM). E.g. Microsoft VisualSourceSafe, IMB/Rational ClearCase, Subversion etc. are examples of tools used for the kind of SCM I wish to apply to VC models.
My confusion is whether the SAP CM that I can read about in the SAP online help, is similar to traditional SCM, and whether it can be applied to VC models.
I wish to apply SCM to a VC model. All the objects that together make up the VC model may then each exist in various versions (version control). A complete set of the objects (in a given version) make up a configuration of the VC model.
What is achieved is : you can control the development of VC model in just the same way that all serious software is under the control of SCM. This will allow an evolution of the VC model, like e.g. version 1.0 is released in January, then version 1.1 is released in June. A major upgrade of the model may become version 2.0 in December etc. The 'source code' (the objects) of each of the versions can be retrieved at any time from the SCM system. Also with SCM several developers may work on the same VC model at the same time, and merge their individual work into the same model.
This is very different from todays VC model development. In todays VC model development, only one version exists, that is 'todays version'. Any change to the model is released immediately, and you can undo model changes only if you remember what it was like a little while ago.
We do develop and test VC models in one SAP system, and then move them to the production system. This is however still very far from the benefits of SCM.
best regards
Henrik Saugbjerg

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