(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata, a global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, published a new e-book focused on Aras’ configure-to-order (CTO) solution. Configure-to-Order: Efficiently Meeting Diverse Customer Requirements describes CTO, a product and sales strategy that efficiently defines and manages customer demand through product variants.

Aras’ approach enables common variability definitions across the life cycle, from sales to product development to manufacturing and, finally, to service. This ensures consistency while leveraging a low-code approach to support maximum product configurability.

Aras has developed a comprehensive enterprise CTO solution that enables manufacturers to engineer, produce, and service complex, configured products while effectively managing change and satisfying both a product’s designers and producers, as well as the varied needs of their end customers.

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