Centric PLM
Pricing Optimization
Fashion & Apparel
Retail
Footwear
Outdoor & Sports
Consumer Goods
OEM & ODM Manufacturers
Home Décor & Furniture
Food and Beverage
Cosmetics & Personal Care
Consumer Electronics
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Visually connect systems and teams.
Deliver competitive, consumer-centric assortments faster.
18,000+ Brands Trust Centric Software
Transform collaboration, planning and decision-making to target the heart of consumer demand.
Centric Visual Boards bring real-time data and imagery from multiple business systems into a singular accessible, visual workspace, combining expertise across cross-functional teams and providing maximum visibility into group decisions.
With the ability to instantly execute on business-critical decisions from within the Visual Boards interface, teams collaborate to dramatically speed time to market and create products and assortments that match demand.
Visual Boards are a game-changing technology that enable brands and retailers to exploit the potential of total digital transformation and remain future-ready in the face of market disruption.
Build Organizational agility
Explore limitless "what-if" scenarios and rapidly visualize the impact of decisions using real-time data. Enable teams to react quickly to market shifts and challenges.
Increase ROI of Existing Systems
Visual Boards are system-agnostic, pulling and pushing real-time data from multiple platforms. Unlock the value of data from existing systems with visual interactivity.
Enhance efficiency
Connect multi-site and cross-functional teams in a visual, collaborative environment. Save time, act immediately on decisions and free up valuable human resources.
Accelerate speed
Plan, manage, and execute superior assortments, faster. Streamline enterprise system and offline tasks from concept to store delivery.
Improve team satisfaction
Give teams next-generation digital technology that can be used by any role, with information presented in an intuitive visual format. Retain talent with better tools.
Drive Sustainability
Reduce excess inventory with customer-centered assortment planning. Cut waste and improve production decisions with earlier, more precise order commitments.
Discover the Visual Boards
Visual Assortment Board
Omnichannel Showroom Board
Visual Concept Board
Visual Assortment Board
For Planning & PLM
Achieve the ultimate assortment performance.
Orchestrate profitable assortments across every sales channel faster by connecting teams in a visually interactive workspace.
Merge vast amounts of data and images from any business system in real time to unify systems, processes and teams.
Accelerate thousands of decisions and deliver the right product mix across multiple channels, regions and categories.
Omnichannel Showroom Board
Deliver custom digital showroom experiences to every sales channel.
Optimize wholesale and retail sales execution to meet market demands more efficiently and profitably with game-changing visually interactive showrooms.
Drag and drop suggested assortments, presentations, lookbooks, and interactive line sheets with video and 3D capabilities.
Assortment management tools integrated with live digital showrooms empowers swift reaction to market shifts across channels, geographies, and store types.
Visual Concept Board
Align creative collections with financial targets.
Transform design ideation into collections by enabling designers to digitally capture design intent and inspiration, quickly create and import styles, materials and colors, and develop collections in a sandbox environment.
Bridge financial planning, creativity and technical execution. Connect design, merchandising, technical and production teams to drive product innovation and collapse time to market.
Develop strategy and direction for each season, department and collection, and rapidly execute decisions in PLM.
Trusted by thousands of the world’s leading brands.
Our customer results speak for themselves.
“I remember seeing our apparel merchandisers and development teams sitting together with a big board where they did all their merchandise mapping, using printed images. It was not easy to store those boards and retrieve data. Now any decisions that are made and related data are stored in one digital location.”
70%
faster buy session setup
99%
faster assortment creation
77%
time savings in line sheet development per delivery
1.5M Euro
in value of gained time and reduced travel costs
Empower your teams to work more visually
Deliver the products and assortments customers want with integrated visual collaboration tools that match the needs of every role.
Planning
Design
Merchandising
Buying
Sales
Planning
Precisely forecast with interactive, visual merchandise financial planning.
Achieve earlier and more accurate vendor planning decisions
Dramatically reduce excess inventory and costs
Exceed KPI’s, improve sales and increase margins
Design
Boost creativity with actionable, collaborative design workspaces
Sandbox assortment concepts connected to real-time product data
Evaluate risks collaboratively to make sharper decisions
Deliver innovative, spot-on products on time, every time.
Merchandising
Accelerate thousands of decisions and interactively explore ‘what-if’ scenarios
Drag and drop to visually experiment with assortment options
Cross-check assortments with live, aggregated financials
Precisely orchestrate mix across deliveries, regions and channels
Buying
Facilitate seamless omnichannel ordering with curated, visual assortments
Live, suggested assortments are always up-to-date
Intuitively assort by cluster, door, product, size, color and more
Select the ultimate mix that meets market demand
Sales
Create custom visual digital showrooms to boost sales across every channel
Strategically suggest buy-ready assortments by channel
Accelerate market response with visual sales reporting
Maximize sales, speed and customer responsiveness
Discover how teams collaborate to boost speed, efficiency and profitability with Centric Visual Boards.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What are Centric Visual Boards?
Centric Visual Boards are a family of visualized pivot tables that combine live data from multiple platforms with 2D and/or 3D images. Visual Boards improve team collaboration and optimize range category management to get closer to consumers and be more competitive.
How do customers describe Visual Boards?
The most common expression used to describe Visual Board is that the interface is like a visual chess game. The boards enable teams to bring live data and visual information together at just the right time to interactively or collaboratively make faster, more targeted decisions.
What systems do Centric Visual Boards integrate with?
Centric Visual Boards can be integrated with any enterprise solution and are PLM, Planning and ERP agnostic. Visual Boards represent live data from multiple systems in a visual interface and can be used to execute changes in connected systems directly from the Visual Boards.
Who uses Centric Visual Boards?
Many different teams can use Centric Visual Boards to collaborate and make decisions together.
Planning teams precisely forecast and achieve optimal merchandise financial plans using live, visual interactive tools that combine visuals with financials and every point of data from style information to geography, channel and store type.
Design teams boost creativity with enhanced whiteboarding capabilities connected to live, interactive data that can be accessed from any enterprise system such as PLM. Data integrity is maintained and updates back to the original systems can be made with explicit action.
Merchandising teams accelerate thousands of decisions using ‘what-if’ visualization in real time, accessing every data point needed to optimize the merchandise mix from style information to delivery, regions and channels.
Buying teams facilitate unmatched omnichannel ordering intuitively by cluster, door, product, size, color and more to meet consumer demand through curated, always up-to-date assortment suggestions.
Sales teams are empowered to deliver customer-centric showrooms to every channel, providing unparalleled buying tools amplified with real-time sales reporting to maximize customer responsiveness.
What industries use Centric Visual Boards?
Centric Visual Boards are highly flexible and have many applications across different industries. Companies in fashion, footwear, outdoor and sports, consumer goods, home décor and furniture, food and beverage, cosmetics and beauty and consumer electronics use Centric Visual Boards.
Are Centric Visual Boards just for planning?
No. While planning is a primary application of Centric Visual Boards, and they can be connected with planning solutions, the Visual Boards can also be used for design concepting, buying sessions, creating interactive digital catalogs and much more.
Does the term ‘Visual Merchandising’ refer to my store/floor set direction and brand compliance?
No. Visual Boards support the process of enhancing merchandising and category management planning visually.
What’s the primary ROI companies experience using Centric Visual Boards?
Companies using Centric Visual Boards typically experience benefits such as faster time to market, more profitable assortments and more agile decision-making to react to market shifts, saving time to focus on value-added creative work, reduced paper and printing costs and improved sustainability.
Is it difficult to learn how to use Centric Visual Boards?
No. The board interface is user-friendly and highly intuitive. Request a demo below to see just how easy it is for your teams to start using Centric Visual Boards.
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