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INVITATION: Get on BOARD Centric’s Game-changing Technology That Empowers Brands and Retailers to VISUALize and Revolutionize Processes
To keep up with today’s faster-than-ever trend cycles and highly demanding shoppers, fashion brands and retailers require innovative technologies that go beyond foundational systems like PLM.
Are you relying on hundreds of spreadsheets to manage your assortment development?
Are you struggling to collaborate and make decisions around your product development?
Are you working with multiple solutions unable to talk to each other throughout the process?
If your answer is yes to one of these questions, your team hasn’t tapped into the power of Centric Visual Boards™ yet. Now is the time to see what you’ve been missing.
What is Centric Visual Boards™ ?
Centric Visual Boards™ are a game-changing technology that enables brands and retailers to harness the full potential of digital transformation and stay future-ready amidst market disruption. These platforms revolutionize traditional product management by allowing teams to visually organize collections, buying sessions and assortment planning, streamline project management, and make data-driven decisions in real-time, all within a singular customizable digital workspace. With the ability to execute business-critical decisions instantly, Visual Boards™ refocus real-time team collaboration, planning, and decision-making to align with consumer demand. Ideal for fashion and luxury product development teams, Visual Boards™ bridge creativity with data, ensuring collections are market-ready and optimized for sell-through.
“What’s clear to us is that customers adopting Visual Boards™ are seeing significant improvements in all areas of application: 99% faster assortment creation, 77% time savings in line sheet development per delivery, 70% faster buy session setup.” explains Mimi Peros, Director of strategic accounts, focus on innovation at Centric Software.
“The integration of Visual Boards™ into a fashion business is as unique as the brand itself. That’s why we are dedicated to showcasing the full potential of Visual Boards™, ensuring every customer experiences their transformative power firsthand.”
Trusted by leading brands, the Visual Boards™ are divided into 4 powerful boards:
Collaborative planning offers a revolutionary visual solution, enabling teams involved in MFP, line planning and assortment planning to bridge data divides, collaborate more effectively, make data-led or visually-led (or both!) decisions and optimize global omnichannel assortment performance.
Designers easily create material, colors, sketches and combine them to develop collections with minimal effort. It becomes effortless to transform design ideation into collections. Connect design, merchandising, technical and production teams to drive product innovation and creativity and collapse time to market.
Live showroom management with personalized branding, 3D models and video delivers an unmatched buying experience across every sales channel. Plus, visual real-time sales reporting across channels achieves faster vendor and supplier commitments that meet market demand. All this and more guarantee you deliver the right product, in the right mix, to the right channel at the right time.
Our latest board is Centric Visual Whiteboard, a dynamic collaborative workspace that enables teams to manage the entire product lifecycle, transforming ideas into reality. It ideates your concept, creates a seasonal strategy, accelerates approval without using Powerpoint, Google Sheets, Miro or any similar tool, all in one!
The Power of Visual Boards™
Centric Visual Boards™ empower every role across a company to work adaptively and collaboratively by interacting in a highly visual, digital space with one version of truth. Teams all want to see the same data in different ways. Centric Visual Boards™ comprise a family of different digital boards for fashion that enable teams to visualize and interact with essential data combinations in the way that best empowers them to do their work. With the ability to instantly execute on business-critical decisions from within the Visual Boards™ interface and feedback into connected enterprise systems, teams collaborate to dramatically speed time to market and create products and assortments that match demand.
Brands like Swarovski, Artcteryx and ASICS are already leveraging Centric Visual Boards™ to improve decision-making, create fashion look books and deliver profitable omnichannel assortments amid a constant state of change and disruption.
“It’s like the Tower of Babel where you have the creative people speaking their language and the data geeks speaking only data, but Centric Visual Boards™ act as the translator.” Senior PLM Brand Operations at Swarovski.
Centric Visual Boards™ are designed for everyone, from buyers and merchandisers to product developers, category managers, sourcing teams, production staff, designers, and product managers. Teams across all departments are using Centric Visual Boards daily to streamline decisions on product design, assortment variations, digital showroom catalogs, vendor selections, and more.