Optimize Private Label Assortments for Grocery and Multiple Category Retailers
Accelerate time to market for private label.
Harmonize and optimize SKUs for curated product offerings.
Ensure compliance, visibility and food safety in all markets.
Trusted by the world’s top grocery retailers.
Discover how modern grocery retailers achieve results
Use next-generation product lifecycle management and visual collaboration tools to optimize product offerings and assortments, boost agility and meet market pressures and operational challenges head-on. Benefit from returns on investment like these.
15%
rise
in margins
60%
faster time
to market
30%
improved
productivity
15%
reduction
in COGS
93%
reduction in
spreadsheets
The market-leading product lifecycle management solution for fast-moving consumer goods
Centric PLM and Centric Visual Boards
Streamline products, boost agility, increase innovation and overcome market challenges with Centric Software.
Product Lifecycle Management
Streamline recipe optimization, ingredient management and innovation while minimizing costs. Improve collaboration and maintain compliance with Centric PLM's centralized data and automated processes.
Discover Centric PLMAssortment Optimization Tools
Harmonize global and local grocery selections by fine-tuning product offerings to enhance resilience, ensure timely delivery and implement competitive pricing.
Discover Centric Visual BoardsAward-winning technology
Move from multiple disconnected systems to one digital platform
Discover Centric Software’s robust platform to streamline and optimize projects and workflows for all categories of products, ranging from food, near-food, home/electronics, clothing and more.
Connect cross-functional teams to optimize time to market and boost product innovation. Leverage AI to automate manual tasks, reduce inefficiencies and bring all information into one single integrated digital platform.
Streamline workflows
Manage tasks efficiently with built-in workflows. See the impact of R&D, design, packaging and supply decisions on cost, delivery and more while maximizing efficiency.
Monitor Product Specifications
Synchronize product & packaging data
Automate with ai
Grocery and hypermarket retail has its challenges
From supply chain issues to regulatory compliance and safety recalls, retailing both food and non-food products is complex.
Multiple product Categories
Challenge: Ensuring shelves are stocked with products that are seasonally and regionally in demand with varying development timelines and shelf lives are difficult to coordinate.
Solution: Leverage a centralized digital platform and pivot assortments by theme, region, delivery date, cost, cluster/store type or other variables for robust, optimized product offers.
Sourcing and сo-development
Challenge: Supply chain issues can result in recipe changes, revisions to nutritional labels, price adjustments and stockouts which are challenging to keep up with for 100s of SKUs.
Solution: Streamline sourcing whether near-shore and offshore, to ensure customers are offered safe and competitive products. Drive a multi-threaded buying strategy with just a few clicks.
Vendor Collaboration
Challenge: Poor vendor relationship management and communication impacts the speed, accuracy and efficiency of private label product development.
Solution: Connect vendors to a powerful PLM platform to provide accurate specifications related to products, ingredients and packaging.
Explore our innovative visual assortment management board
Transition away from spreadsheets, isolated systems and unreliable data when overseeing the commercialization process of grocery products.
Enable teams to streamline timelines and visually integrate systems and personnel to efficiently manage private label products in harmony with packaged goods, CPG and national brand offerings.
Discover how teams benefit with Centric Software
Product Management
Master Data Management
Category Manager
Product Development
Procurement
Packaging and Artwork
Quality
Streamline product development and launch phases with a unified digital solution.
- Centralize data: Manage product portfolios, private label creation and assortment planning.
- Eliminate inefficiencies: Remove silos and error-prone spreadsheets by syncing real-time collaboration between internal teams and vendors.
- Speed decisions: Accelerate launches with centralized, accurate and accessible data.
Enhance product lifecycle management with real-time accuracy by harnessing a comprehensive end-to-end solution.
- Integrate systems: Sync data across supply chain, ERP and manufacturing platforms.
- Streamline collaboration: Connect internal teams and vendors to drive efficient production and private label production.
- Enable transparency: Provide stakeholders with accessible, up-to-date information.
Maximize efficiency and profitability with a visual and data-driven platform to create the right assortments and optimize pricing and inventory.
- Analyze trends: Track trends and identify opportunities with real-time data to boost ROI.
- Streamline operations: Connect internal teams and suppliers to optimize product availability and enhance collaboration.
- Deliver consumer-centric assortments: Reconcile global and local assortments and ranges and better leverage locally-driven offers by trend/supplier, themes, etc.
Accelerate innovation and streamline new product development to drive organic growth.
- Unify teams & systems: Drive efficiency and cross-team and external collaboration in a visual and datadriven, centralized platform.
- Optimize workflows: Manage formulations, labeling and ingredients while sandboxing concepts using AI-powered costing scenarios.
- Enhance transparency: Increase accuracy from ideation to launch with real-time product data.
Transform sourcing and supply chain management with real-time updates in a centralized end-to-end solution.
- Enhance supplier collaboration: Track performance, negotiate terms and secure quality products.
- Improve decision-making: Optimize results by running “what-if” scenarios and leveraging advanced forecasting.
- Streamline operations: Centralize communication to simplify contract management and improve pricing transparency and ordering accuracy.
Optimize packaging design and compliance in one single integrated platform.
- Simplify workflows: Connect product data with detailed packaging briefs to streamline launches.
- Ensure accuracy: Harness 2D/3D tools to bolster proofing and regulatory checks.
- Ensure compliance: Empower efficient collaboration through iterations and regional requirements by connecting teams and external agencies.
Maintain compliance and high quality across the product lifecycle.
- Monitor compliance: Seamlessly manage certifications, regulatory changes and safety issues.
- Streamline audits: Utilize built-in workflows to simplify quality checks and vendor certifications.
- Minimize errors: Integrate databases and review artwork templates to avoid costly recalls.