Supercharge Product Go-To-Market Success

Plan, design, develop, formulate, comply and sell products with a unified digital platform.

Optimize complex product portfolios, manage artwork and accelerate new product development.

Simplify quality control and global compliance, and mitigate risk.

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Trusted by the world’s top cosmetics, personal care and fragrance brands.

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See how cosmetics, personal care and fragrance teams get results

Use next-generation AI-powered planning, market intelligence and product development tools to drive innovation and maximize profitability from ideation to retail. Don't take our word for it: see the ROI for companies like yours.

60%

faster time to market

30%

improved productivity

15%

rise in margin

15%

reduction in COGS

93%

reduction in spreadsheets

Save time with accurate information

30%

time saved on artwork

100%

information accuracy

The cosmetics and fragrances industry thrives on new product development.

Centric Software innovates solutions to optimize product development, ensures R&D create compliant formulas and develop ranges that customers want and keep up with the challenges of today and tomorrow.

Speed time to market

Develop formulated products faster for accelerated New Product Development (NPD). Remove bottlenecks with streamlined workflow management, execute fast and improve cross-functional team communication to get the right products to market on time.

Boost collaboration

Collaborate effectively in real time using rich visuals and data-driven analysis. Enhance supplier co-development by centralizing RFPs and responses. Share raw material and packaging specifications and auto-populate artwork briefs.

Drive innovation

Understand market trends, ingredient sustainability, what customers want and what competitors are doing to pinpoint product opportunities and accelerate new product development. Free teams from admin to innovate consumer-centric products.

Maximize margins

Boost product development, raw material management, project management, formulation and supplier collaboration to reduce Costs of Goods Sold (COGS) and improve product margins. Gain insight into competitive offerings and consumer demand.

Enable sustainability

Collect specification and composition details needed for environmental impact analysis. Track sustainability targets like material reduction goals, raw material change and certified components.

Maintain quality

Manage quality controls with protocol templates and the execution of tests including compatibility, efficacy and challenge/stability. Ensure sample records and reviews, and factory audits for high brand standards.

Ensure compliance

Tackle regulatory requirements and blacklists with ingredient screening in formulation. Easily generate Product Information Files (PIF) and export dossiers. Ensure compliant labelling pack claims.

A seamless experience from CONCEPT TO SHELF

Discover Centric’s Market-Driven Solutions

Invest in highly-configurable, out-of-the-box and easy-to-use modular solutions to optimize every step of bringing a product to market.

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.

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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.

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Centric Pricing & Inventory

Automate pricing decisions for all products across categories and channels and optimize allocation and replenishment to increase margins, revenue and sell-through.

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Centric Market Intelligence

Gain insights into competitor assortment and pricing strategies, understand consumer trends and buying behavior and spot market opportunities.

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Centric Visual Boards

Boost marketing, merchandising and design collaboration and optimize assortments with highly-visual and data-connected digital boards.

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We work with all types of companies, large or small.

Developing innovative products, maximizing profitability and meeting sustainability goals are important no matter the company type or size.

That's why we work hand-in-hand with customers to understand their complex day-to-day operational and strategic requirements, and continue to iterate, develop and innovate our products to keep up with the changing needs of the cosmetics and personal care industry.

Brands

Fuel business growth by streamlining NPD, product updates and refreshes, supplier co-development, packaging and labeling as well as quality and regulatory compliance.

Retailers

Plan and execute complex private label and branded collections across multiple categories, geographies and channels. Cut time to market and work effectively with supplier networks.

E-Commerce

Quickly discover what customers want with AI-powered market intelligence. Keep on top of trends to stay competitive and sell more products.

Manufacturers

Streamline formulated product development, superspeed innovation and remove inefficiencies to reduce mistakes and wasted time while lowering costs.

Discover how every team benefits with Centric Software

Assortment Planning

Product Development

NPD / Project Management

R&D

Packaging & Artwork

Sourcing & Costing

Quality & Compliance

Pricing

Quickly gain a 360° view of the entire market, analyze competitor prices, uncover their assortment investments and grasp market trends. Centric Market Intelligence provides the insights needed to develop assortments customers are looking for.

Simplify communication with one, actionable source of truth. Remove data entry and errors while eliminating spreadsheets, shared drives and other bottlenecks to increase efficiency and cross-team collaboration to speed product development and bring products to market faster with Centric PLM.

Manage and enhance product portfolio and optimize product variety for better sell through and adoption. Gain full visibility into product costs and margins. With Centric PLM, teams make better decisions with information that is up to date in real time. Increase new product introduction success by being responsive to consumer response.

Ensure real-time compliance check and product testing with Centric PLM. Formulation management enables QS/QSP automation, QQ formula generation, impurities and trace, INCI list (LOI) and allergens declaration and more.

Connect your product packaging briefs directly to product briefs to increase efficiency and accuracy when developing new products. Manage packaging specifications, build BOMs and costing, generate compliant labelling and collaboratively proof artworks with Centric PLM.

Invite suppliers and sub-contractors to be active stakeholders in the development process. With Centric PLM, engage partners through the vendor portal for RFx, information requests, document requests and renewals, and product development collaboration.

Tackle regulatory and general compliance and develop high-quality products that meet consumer expectations through Centric PLM. Track and trace product information and effectively maintain compliance documentation in a single up-to-date digital location from raw material origins to sustainability and safety.

Enable teams to create, influence and fulfil demand based on forward-facing forecasts to better optimize the pricing and inventory decisions for every product in every location and channel. Leverage Centric Pricing and Inventory to increase sell through and reduce inventory.