STYLEpdm is a workflow driven product specification and costing system for apparel and footwear companies. This means that the data management begins where your work begins, in the sample room, where specifications originate and cost is initially evaluated.

One important factor in successfully dealing with today's manufacturing realities is the short and effective transition from design to production. Designed with precisely this goal in mind, STYLEpdm is an information system that provides a tight but flexible organisation of sample room information, modelled after actual workflow, so that the specification of the style at its earliest stages is as close as possible to the form needed by production.

STYLEpdm is more than computerised forms. Beind it lies a sophisticated database structure that can deal with incomplete, partially specified information often found in the sample room. You won't waste time entering and coding a lot of unnecessary information for a style that may never go into production. Because of this structure, STYLEpdm is not simply an after-the-fact receptacle for your production data, it allows you to quickly evaluate alternatives in terms of style and cost.

STYLEpdm's structure is intelligent, ensuring that you spend as little time as possible entering data. Any material specification attached to a specific style can be transformed into re-usable system resource with the click of a mouse. Operations such as sewing and packing steps can be saved as individual steps or grouped for re-use as an entire entity. STYLEpdm knows what information is size or colour- dependent, so you can cost colour and size variations as quickly as possible.

STYLEpdm's intelligent structure also lets you work in any level of detail you want to. Costs can be analysed in depth, costs can be looked up in the system's price list, or prices can be entered directly on the style when you decide it is most efficient to do so. STYLEpdm is customisable. You can declare and use any measurement units, names, and sizes. STYLEpdm also lets you design your own reports, so you can get almost any kind of printed output you can imagine. STYLEman can use the design drawings from a variey od sources, including the STYLEit CAD system, and can transfer production styles directly into STYLEman.