Supercharge Product Design, Development and Sourcing for Consumer Goods

Accelerate time to market with agile enterprise PLM
Optimize decision-making with AI
Drive efficiency with cross-team collaboration

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Centric customers get results

Accelerate collaboration and efficiency across the entire product development stage Don’t take our word for it: see the ROI experienced by our customers across fashion, footwear, luxury, retail, food, cosmetics and consumer electronics industries.

18%

growth in sales

15%

rise in margin

30%

reduced working capital

60%

reduction in time to market

50%

boost in productivity

93%

decrease in spreadsheets

Speed time to market

Execute fast and improve cross-team collaboration and product data management to get the right products to market on time and before the competition. Reduce bottlenecks and improve workflows.

Increase productivity

Connect everyone with one real-time source of truth for all stages of product lifecycle management including design, product development, sourcing and more. Leverage AI to eliminate time wasted on manual tasks.

Boost collaboration and innovation

Collaborate effectively with internal teams and external partners in real time. Issue RFQs en masse and easily compare supplier responses. Co-create with suppliers through a dedicated PLM vendor portal.

Maximize margins

Reduce operating costs and launch faster. Optimize design, product development, production planning and sourcing decisions to launch cost-effective products that consumers want to buy.

Improve decision-making

Navigate supply chain complexity with the ability to run what-if sourcing scenarios. Leverage Visual Boards to assist design, sourcing, product portfolio and assortment decisions and ensure a robust, competitive offer.

Source sustainably

Enhance supply chain visibility and transparency to source more responsibly and reassure consumers. Track and manage sustainability, traceability and circularity goals and documentation.

Discover why 18,000+ brands have chosen Centric Software. Get in touch for a discovery call.

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A flexible and scalable digital foundation for growth

Explore Centric’s AI market-driven solutions

Optimize each step of bringing a product to market, whether at the pre-season, in-season or end-of-season cycle. Streamline processes, reduce costs, maximize profitability and drive sustainability.

Centric PLM™

Reduce costs and time to market. Improve collaboration to get products to market fast while improving sustainability with market-leading product lifecycle management.

Centric Planning™

Build and execute your Merchandise Financial Plan and develop assortments to boost margins, improve forecasting and optimize results with powerful, AI-driven retail planning.

Centric Market Intelligence™

Gain insights into competitor assortment and pricing strategies, understand consumer trends and buying behavior and spot market opportunities.

Centric Pricing and Inventory™

Automate pricing decisions for all products across categories and channels and optimize allocation and replenishment to increase margins, revenue and sell-through.

Centric Visual Boards™

Boost marketing, merchandising and design collaboration and optimize assortments with highly-visual and data-connected digital boards.

Discover how each step of the process benefits from Centric Solutions.

Design

R&D

Product development

Project management

Packaging and artwork

Sourcing and costing

Buyer/Procurement

Quality and Compliance

Operations

  • Enable design teams to reduce manual tasks, freeing up time to focus on creativity.
  • Gain easy access to material libraries and historical product data.
  • Connect 2D and 3D design platforms with Centric PLM to streamline product or packaging design.
  • Co-create with suppliers and agencies using a single source of truth.
  • Collaborate on design decisions with Centric Visual Boards to speed time to market.

We now know much more about all of the materials we use, our BOMs are in a consistent and detailed format, we can collaborate in real time while traveling and we can see everything necessary to develop the product and approve it for production.

— Marco Hühn

Quality Manager at Deuters Europe Sagl

  • Give R&D teams the ability to track all products and product-related data in real time to ensure accuracy.
  • Automatically record changes made over time so users have a historic log of every action related to product development and manufacturing making it easy to pinpoint affected products in the event of a product recall.
  • Leverage Centric PLM's formulation management solutions to modify existing formulations for new product introductions.
  • Implement best practices for streamlined ingredient / raw material and specifications management.

With Centric PLM, we anticipate taking only minutes to search data about ingredients. Whereas now, the same process could take hours, as you need to open multiple files.

— Paulina Wasik

Research and Development Manager at Milarex

  • Reduce product development cycle times with highly visual collaborative tools such as Centric Visual Boards .
  • With Centric PLM work from one source of data truth to remove duplicated data entry and errors while eliminating spreadsheets, shared drives and other bottlenecks.
  • Increase efficiency and cross-team collaboration to bring products to market faster.
  • Streamline private label and supplier co-created development.

Because teams collaborate across 5 major offices in 4 different time zones plus all the regional sales offices, days were lost in the past waiting for replies to emails and updated spreadsheets. Now, once information is uploaded in PLM, it appears instantly for our users everywhere.

— Ron DeCamp

VP, Global Product Management & Development at Targus

  • Manage new product innovations and changes to existing products quickly in Centric PLM .
  • Manage tasks, workflows and obstacles efficiently with dedicated project management workflow tools.
  • Spot supplier and supply chain obstacles with high level overviews over the entire product development phase.
  • Connect data from multiple systems and enable collaboration with internal and external teams.
  • Reduce errors, keep communication open and move products along at pace to reduce costs and bring products to market quickly.

This partnership with Centric is significant and strategic on many levels, particularly in terms of reducing time to market by approximately three weeks. Thus, we will remain competitive and agile, delivering exactly what the customer wants, at the price they expect. 

— Antonio Lopes de Oliveira Neto

Product Development Director and PLM Project Manager at Kyly Group

  • Manage packaging and artwork data directly in Centric PLM to increase efficiency and accuracy.
  • Track changes, add annotations, automatically highlight version discrepancies and easily iterate with design agencies until artwork is complete and approved.
  • Ensure products are labeled correctly, particularly in the food and beverage and cosmetics space to ensure accurate ingredient listing, manufacturing data, country origin and more.
  • Benefit from a simplified and cost-efficient approach to package and label development.

Centric PLM speeds up new product development and improves communication among stakeholders and simplifies workflows to accelerate approvals. The artwork proofing process is now streamlined for all teams involved to avoid multiple revisions and compliances issues. We are already seeing improved visibility, communication, and coordination across departments, and Centric PLM’s streamlining capabilities across multiple functions will support our international growth.

— Khaled Kasih

CEO at Kasih Food Production

  • Evaluate and rationalize your supply chain and collaborate efficiently with each supplier to easily compare price quotes within Centric PLM. Leverage AI to identify and plan for bottlenecks in the supply chain.
  • Eliminate siloes, better control costs and gain transparency over production with a single source of truth.
  • Run ‘what-if’ costing scenarios to make better purchasing decisions and improve margins.
  • Track, monitor and document sustainability and compliance requirements.

The biggest benefit of using Centric PLM is that we are able to consolidate information both internally and with our suppliers, which allows smoother product sourcing.

— Yusuke Sato

Brand Manager at Yutori Inc.

  • Centric PLM unites all sourcing and procurement data on a single platform that is updated in real time for every product.
  • Drive close collaboration and efficient communication between suppliers and stakeholders, resulting in a streamlined approach to product and packaging development and procurement.
  • Manage and automatically update all data related to vendors, audits and certification, raw materials, packaging components, prices and more.
  • Leverage Centric Visual Boards to harmonize the global buy, allow for focused negotiations with vendors and accelerate product allocation.

Centric Software is game-changing, it truly brings the creative and data sides together and eliminates so many time-consuming manual processes. It will enable us to think more creatively, build themes from concept to store, and transform the buying process. It will give us time and clarity to focus on what really matters, which is the product. 

— Harri Rands

Buying Director at Mint Velvet

  • Effectively maintain compliance documentation in a single up-to-date digital location like Centric PLM to meet regulatory requirements.
  • Configure the solution with custom workflows, regulations management and traceable audit checkpoints.
  • Eradicate gaps in reporting to ensure traceable decisions for accountability and auditing.
  • Easily provide customers with information such as sustainability credentials.

Centric PLM will provide us with a comprehensive end-to-end solution to help us handle large volumes of product launches, while making sure we meet strict compliance regulations.

— David Cumberland

Head of Finance at Mecca

  • Manage the complete journey of a product from ideation and design all the way through to production and beyond.
  • Effectively track changes and improve collaboration across teams.
  • Streamline the entire supply chain with Centric PLM, boost operational efficiency and improve margins.
  • Build efficient replenishment strategies with granular AI-powered insights from Centric Planning to avoid out of stocks, minimize markdowns, and reduce stock holding and logistics costs.

While we are unable to visit overseas vendors, Centric’s supplier portal will give vendors real-time updates, reducing emails and consolidating information in one centralized location.

— Mark Rogers

Operations Manager at PE Nation

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