July 22nd, 2024

Carrefour Selects Centric PLM to Strengthen Private Label Purchasing Strategy

Leading French global food retailer partners with Centric Software to accelerate time to market, support strategic growth and decrease costs

CAMPBELL, Calif., July 23, 2024 – Centric Software®, the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market leader, proudly announces its partnership with Carrefour, one of the world’s leading food retailers. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, formulate, develop, procure, manufacture and sell consumer goods products in food & beverage, grocery, multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

As part of its mission to make their products both affordable and accessible to everyone, and to support their 2026 strategic objectives, Carrefour is focusing its efforts on building a cutting-edge digital retail company. The project will be targeting G6 countries in Europe: France, Spain, Italy, Benelux, Romania and Poland.

To create this new digital retail company, strengthen its purchasing strategy and streamline processes, Carrefour underwent an in-depth search for a PLM solution.

After examining numerous solutions, Carrefour selected Centric PLM™ as the foundation to support its ambitious 2026 strategic goals. Centric’s proven broad functional coverage for food and HPC (Home and Personal Care) products, and Centric PLM’s user-friendly experience, modular and flexible solution and robust technical foundation were features that led to Carrefour’s decision.

“We are thrilled that Carrefour has selected Centric Software as a partner to support their 2026 strategic goals,” says Fabrice Canonge, President of Centric Software. “With Centric PLM as the foundation of their digital transformation, we look forward to seeing Carrefour continue to make quality services, products and foods across accessible to all, across all channels.”

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About the Carrefour Group (www.carrefour.com)

With a multi-format network of over 14,000 stores in more than 40 countries, the Carrefour Group is one of the world’s leading food retailers. Carrefour posted sales of €94.1 billion in 2023. Its integrated store network employs more than 300,000 people who help to make Carrefour the world leader in the food transition for all, by offering quality food every day, accessible everywhere and at a reasonable price. In total, more than 500,000 people work under Carrefour banners worldwide. For more information, visit www.carrefour.com, or find us on X (@news_carrefour) and LinkedIn (Carrefour).

Centric Software® (https://www.centricsoftware.com/)

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides the market-leading AI-enabled Product Lifecycle Management platform for food & beverage manufacturers, grocery and multi-category retailers. As experts in all fast-moving consumer goods, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to design, develop, source, buy, make, package, assort and sell products. Centric solutions optimize the product portfolio, harmonize product offers and streamline product development by speeding time to market and innovation while enhancing quality control and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Centric PLM™ features integrated industry best practices and innovative, AI-enabled capabilities tailored specifically for food and beverage manufacturers, retailers and service providers. Seamlessly manage the overall product lifecycle, from initial concept and formula development to packaging, quality, supplier collaboration, nutritional labeling, production, SKU rationalization and beyond. Results include up to a 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.
Centric Visual Boards™ are a visually oriented top-down/bottom-up product portfolio optimization tool. Real-time data and imagery from multiple business systems are brought into a singular accessible workspace, creating a new, visual way of working for all teams to ensure robust, well-balanced global/regional product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time.

Centric Software maintains a 100% go-live rate and has received awards for excellence from Just Food, Just Drinks, Business Awards UK, Frost & Sullivan and many other regional accolades. Centric Software is proud to provide the best solutions, backed by the best team and to partner with the best customers.