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Industry-Leading Private Label Software

Optimize every stage of private label product development
Centralize formulation, sourcing, and compliance data to improve efficiency and accuracy
Drive innovation and reduce time to market

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

Discover how food, beverage and grocery retailer manufacturers get results

Boost collaboration, accuracy and speed across your entire organization. Don’t take our word for it: see the ROI experienced by our customers.

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

See it in action! Discover how food, beverage and grocery retail manufacturers transform product development and sourcing with Centric PLM Solutions. Request a Demo Today!

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Speed time to market

Cut food product development times
and create plans that are informed by real-time input from multiple teams, up-to-date data
and automated alerts to get ahead of delays.
Enhance visibility throughout the value chain to meet deadlines.

Boost Return on Innovation Investment (ROI2)

Enable more successful product introductions by empowering teams to innovate more and better products with the same resources. Centric solutions empower R&D process optimization so that companies can be sure they are cooking up future hits.

Strengthen innovation pipeline

Develop and launch more new products at more regular intervals to react to market shifts, commodity crises and emerging food trends. Keep retail customers in the loop with data-driven sales collateral early in the innovation cycle to improve future sales.

Enlarge market share

Boost market share with better private label development to build consumer loyalty to ‘store brands’. Speed time to market to get new products on shelves ahead of similar competitor offerings, capture more of the market early and defend it more effectively.

Ensure compliance and food traceability

Gain sourcing visibility to reduce risks. Simplify food quality control, allergen control and global food compliance. Centralize and track all product-related information including the history of changes and decisions. Centric's partnership with FoodChain ID enhances regulatory compliance capabilities.

Improve food cost control

Eliminate costly, error-prone, time-consuming manual tasks such as data entry and spreadsheet admin. Connect everyone to one real-time source of truth for food formulation, ingredients, nutrition management, food packaging and more to work more efficiently.

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 Planwith powerful, AI-driven retail planning.

Centric Market
Intelligence

Gain insights into competitor assortment and pricing strategies.

Centric Pricing
And Inventory

Automate pricing decisions for all products across categories.

Centric Visual
Boards

Boost marketing, merchandising and design collaboration.

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 chose Centric PLM Food & Beverage for its high usability and specialization—the software, as well as the professionals, are focused on this market. Centric Software was the platform that the development team liked the most. In addition, we talked to two companies that are already Centric clients, and these conversations were positive factors in our decision.

— VRodrigo Paredes Bassi

Head of Digital Transformation at Wild Foods

  • 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.

We are confident that the platform will elevate our technical requirements and project management to the next level, while also providing the scalability needed to support our continued growth.

— Christy Sink

Head of R&D at SPC Australia

  • 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.

Launching dozens of products in different countries simultaneously with unique ingredient and labeling requirements, different retailer timelines and central distribution models and numerous supply chain and compliance standards requires a world-class solution like Centric PLM.

— Paul White

COO at Wicked Foods

  • 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.

It will make managing growing portfolios easier, especially when we open new markets and grow our international business. When data is stored in one place, project status is visible to everyone, and integrating external partners will be simple.

— Janna Oksanen

PLM Project Manager at MeEat

  • 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.

Joining forces with Centric, we look forward to establishing integrated product databases that include raw materials, formulas, regulations, materials and packaging, as well as achieving standardization and digitalization for innovation initiatives.

— Zhang Min

Co-founder and Technical Director at SNS Food

  • 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.

Brand reputation is often undermined when the basics are not done right, such as a complicated process, redundant communication and data errors. With Centric PLM, we can lay a solid data foundation for our products and better support brand building.

— Feng Deyue

Food Safety Director at Guangzhou Restaurant

  • 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.

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

  • 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 is the system where we store all our information. Speed to market is key for us especially on the new product innovation side, because we want to keep fresh with our retailer.

— Jess Kolko

Registered Dietitian and Director of Quality at Wicked Kitchen

  • 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.

Ultimately, Centric felt like a good fit operationally, strategically and culturally with the right balance of experience, flexibility and expertise for our needs. It will allow us to function in an organized and efficient way that is not just comprehensive but also intuitive and very user-friendly.

— Paul White

COO at Wicked Foods

Centric Software is the market leader

Brands are brought to market with Centric Software
100% Go-Live Rate
99% Customer Retention Rate