Turbocharge Your Retail Planning, Merchandising and Assortment Optimization

Get the right products to the right channel, at the right time
Optimize decision-making with AI planning
Boost sell-through and speed to market

Trusted by the world’s top fashion brands, retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers.

Discover how each element of the retail process benefits from Centric Solutions.

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  • Leverage historic data using AI to accurately predict customer demand and build accurate reports quickly.
  • Collaborate on seasonal planning.
  • Gain agility and control over the product lifecycle.
  • Provide teams with invaluable data on product trends, pricing intelligence and competitor monitoring.
  • Find out what consumers are looking for through competitive sell-through and market search data.
  • Analyze globally wide and publicly available competitive data, from pricing, to assortment makeup.
  • Quickly grasp market trends and consumer preferences in minutes, not months.
  • Drive product decisions and maximize revenues.
  • Quickly identify whitespace opportunities and gaps in your assortments.

Centric Planning and Centric Visual Boards will also increase our success rate for new designs through improved accuracy in pre-season planning and help us lead the way in industry best practices. Many companies believe that digitalizing design is more important, but to us, accurate range planning and procurement are key.

Dan Friis, Managing Partner

Bestseller China

  • Analyze competitive assortment and pricing strategies with Centric Market Intelligence.
  • Powerful AI and retail analytics enable forward-facing inventory forecasting, retail sales forecasting and intelligent pricing.

We saw an analysis that our competitors had ramped up volumes of kidswear at a specific price point during a certain time of year and noticed that we had behaved differently. If we see this we can make adjustments to compete head-to-head. There are many ways to use the tool. 

Pia Ekholm, Design and Buying Manager for Womenswear

Lindex

  • Easily identify strategic priorities with end-to-end data transparency.
  • Make agile decisions around mark-downs and promotions in-season with real-time sales and market insights.
  • Action customer-centric assortment and promotion strategies to boost sell-through where demand exists.

With Centric Planning, we are able to strategically plan our sales campaigns and to efficiently steer sales execution. This is key to capture all market opportunities and to ensure brand consistency. 

Rossano Cosci, General Manager

Replay

  • Utilize AI-powered analytics and automation to deliver fast, accurate insights into store and trend data, pulling in data from multiple systems to accurately forecast demand.
  • Optimize allocation decisions for maximum profitability.
  • Automate retail inventory management tasks to optimize every product, in every location and channel with retail omnichannel software solutions for store inventory management.
  • Increase sell-through, improve retail inventory control and maximize profits with retail inventory software.
  • Conduct wholesale and retail buy sessions with ease and flexibility in a digital, dynamic and collaborative environment.

Centric Planning is so simple for our sales team to use, and the analytics are powerful. Our teams have the ability to see customers’ order history and performance, analyze and steer sales campaigns strategically, and react quickly with real-time data. 

Paolo Pietrobon, CIO

Replay

  • Boost profitability and growth with AI-assisted store clustering and curate localized customer-centric assortments for maximum sell-through opportunity.
  • Confidently build product assortments that consumers really want.
  • Accurately balance the predicted desirability of products with the need to avoid overstocking and maximize profitability.
  • Predict consumer demand, preferences and shopping habits with AI-driven insights for agile market reaction.

You could spend a whole day cutting and pasting, trying to get the right assortment together. To be able to visually play with the things that you need, I think it could take only two hours to put together. So that’s a time savings of 75% which is pretty good.

Sumi Scott, Chief Merchant

Wolverine Worldwide

Launch products for omnichannel

Analyze huge amounts of data and market intelligence to quickly gain a true snapshot of customer buying behaviors. Leverage this real-time data for accurate retail strategic planning and inventory replenishment.

Connect the value chain

Connect and optimize planning, design, development, sourcing, pricing and inventory from pre-season to in-season and end of season. Enable teams and external stakeholders to collaborate visually in real-time.

Accurately predict future demand

Deep dive into consumer demand with AI-powered forecasting for optimized stock holding, replenishment strategies and inventory control for increased operational margins.

Optimize assortments

Launch more consumer-responsive products across many price points, geographies and channels. Centralize merchandise development plans and track in-season progress. Test different what-if scenarios and enable highly visual assortment plans with Centric Visual Boards.

Accelerate time to market

Remove bottlenecks and align planning, merchandising and retail operations teams on one platform to make highly strategic decisions and execute faster. Connect your teams with a single source of actionable truth. Automate forecasts and budget recalculations for real-time analyses and spend more time on developing data-driven assortment plans.

Drive sustainability in Retail

Prevent overstock and accurately forecast demand to ensure better control and optimization pre-season and in-season, reduce carbon footprint with AI-optimized allocation, and more. Plan, buy, assort and sell with precision to sell only what your customers want to buy.

Make better a reality. Optimize your business’s planning and merchandising strategy today. Find out how, speak to our experts.

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Centric customers get results.

Accelerate cross-team collaboration and creativity that spans the entire organization. Don’t take our word for it, see some of the ROI experienced by customers.

75%

Reduction in planning cycle time

100%

Increase in margin

30%

Reduction in inventory

20%

Faster reporting

50%

Cut in budget preparation time

90%

Quicker to recalculate OTB

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.

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