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Streamline Product Development with Comprehensive Cosmetic Formulation Software

Centralize and optimize formulations
Cosmetic formula software and fragrance formulation software
Manage ingredients and compliance with powerful formula management software

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

Discover how cosmetic and personal care retailers and 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 cosmetic and personal care retailers and manufacturers transform product development with Centric PLM Solutions. Request a Demo Today!

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Speed time to market

Develop formulated and non-formulated products faster for new, refreshed and repackaged offerings. Remove bottlenecks, execute fast and improve cross-team communication to get to market on time.

Boost collaboration

Collaborate in real time with internal teams and suppliers using rich visuals and data-driven analysis. Share cosmetics packaging specifications, auto-populate artwork briefs and connect 3D packaging engineers directly to cosmetic PLM.

Drive innovation

Accelerate new product updates and refreshes with built-in brief templates, libraries and 3D design connectors. Free teams from admin to innovate consumer-centric products.

Maximize margins

Boost product development, cosmetic portfolio management and supplier management to reduce Costs of Goods Sold (COGS) and improve product margins. Optimize decisions with collaborative Visual Boards.

Enable sustainability

Track sustainability targets, optimize inventory and document ingredients, carbon footprint, ethical labor and more. Plan, price and develop with precision to produce what consumers want to buy.

Maintain quality and compliance

Control cosmetic development using product templates and stage-gate tracking with cosmetic formulation and integrated risk assessments. Manage quality control, sample reviews and factory audits to respect regulatory compliance.

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 started to work with Centric Software and it’s already helping us to launch products more reliably.

— Heike Linnemann

Brand General Manager at Kiko Milano

  • 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’re approving new products faster than ever before because we’re completing our reviews in one place, Centric PLM. If we realize we need more data, we can get in touch with our brands straight away, rather than discovering this further down the line and ending up with delays.

— David Cumberland

GM of Risk and Compliance at MECCA

  • 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.

We expect Centric PLM will significantly streamline product development. With automation, we anticipate increased productivity, reduced costs, and enhanced product quality — all leading to increased competitiveness in the market.

— Giulio Pistolato

CIO at Pettenon

  • 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.

We were impressed by Centric’s Agile Methodology, which promotes team collaboration and fast time to value.

— François Bernard

ICT Manager at Laboratoires NhCo Nutrition

  • 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.

The capabilities of Centric PLM mean we know the history and composition of every product so we can adapt faster than ever before.

— David Cumberland

GM of Risk and Compliance at MECCA

  • 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.

We really sought to go with best in class. We had a team of 10 selection committee members with different cross-functional team representatives from the brands. We evaluated the leading PLM software companies; went through product demos, talked to references. We scored each vendor based on specific criteria. In the end, Centric was the unanimous winner and the highest rated across all 10 selection team members

— Donna Moore

Vice President of Operations and Supply Chain at Beach House Group

  • 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 will enable us to move from unstructured growth to refined operations and leverage our product strengths, thus ensuring the stable and long-term development of domestic brands.

— Maggie Wang

Chairwoman at Jinjia

  • 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.

We can manage cosmetic claims, set ingredient or claim restrictions by country and create a full library of internationally recognized ingredients.

— David Cumberland

GM of Risk and Compliance 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.

We decided to choose Centric PLM because it’s easy to use and has the advantage of being cloud-based. Centric Software has a strong track record in both the retail and cosmetics industries, and Centric PLM can adapt to a wide range of operations. By increasing the efficiency of our operations, we expect to be able to focus on more value-added tasks and product innovation.

— Masaki Moriya

General Manager of Quality Assurance and Knowledge Management at Premier Anti-Aging

Centric Software is the market leader

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