Simparel, a provider of ERP solutions for industries including apparel, accessories toys, home fashions and footwear, announced it has "extended its ERP footprint to include design, concept, planning and pre-production (PLM)."

The company says it uses a "unique" data dictionary approach allowing customers, including fashion companies, to "get a fully configured PLM that is specifically suited to their business."

The resulting solution it says, averts the need to buy additional modules, compromise business processes to fit inflexible software, or undergo a lengthy and expensive PLM implementation.

Simparel reports that its metadata driven application ensures that "customers can select exactly what they like and change what they don't," adding that its solution is open and completely agnostic, allowing everyone in the company to view and manage what is important to his or her job. Simparel can generate any forms, add any fields, manage any business hierarchy and display desirable grid results, all in real time, without the need to write a single line of programming code. The resulting system, the company reports, is fluid and engineered for change.