Centric PLM
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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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#1 PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
Discover the Market-Leading PLM Solution for Consumer Goods
Leave data chaos and manual systems behind with Centric Product Lifecycle Management (Centric PLM™). Develop profitable products while achieving sustainability and traceability goals with a flexible, easy to use and scalable digital foundation for growth.
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Centric PLM is your single source of truth.
Centric PLM connects the people, systems and processes in your value chain to optimize product go-to-market and performance at retail.
one source of truth
Save time wasted searching for key data in Excel, PDFs and emails. Connect teams with live data.
Improve collaboration
Enable teams and external stakeholders to collaborate effectively in real time.
Speed time to market
Develop products rapidly and ensure accurate, on-time delivery to satisfy consumers.
Harmonize product data
Track and leverage all historical and current product data to boost efficiency.
Stay close to consumers
Anticipate trends and react quickly to gain a competitive advantage.
Manage growth
Optimize categories, SKUs, channels and markets while developing sustainably.
one source of truth
Save time wasted searching for key data in Excel, PDFs and emails. Connect teams with live data.
Improve collaboration
Enable teams and external stakeholders to collaborate effectively in real time.
Speed time to market
Develop products rapidly and ensure accurate, on-time delivery to satisfy consumers.
Harmonize product data
Track and leverage all historical and current product data to boost efficiency.
Stay close to consumers
Anticipate trends and react quickly to gain a competitive advantage.
Manage growth
Optimize categories, SKUs, channels and markets while developing sustainably.
How do you use Centric PLM?
How do you use Centric PLM?
Planning
Easily see priorities and manage accordingly
View holistically and collaborate on season planning
Know exactly where a product is in its lifecycle
Leverage data from past seasons to forecast demand and plan successful products
Build accurate reports quickly, based on up-to-date information
How do you use Centric PLM?
Merchandising
Manage seasons, departments, collections and specific styles to meet performance targets, using up-to-date information
Gain full visibility into material costs and product margins
Run dynamic what-if scenarios using live data from PLM and other enterprise solutions to make better decisions
Quickly create visual line plans and share information
How do you use Centric PLM?
Design
Eliminate or reduce manual tasks, freeing up time to focus on creativity
Stay in sync with merchandising and planning
Access material libraries and historical product data
Connect 3D design platforms with PLM to streamline product and packaging design
Co-create with suppliers and agencies using a single source of truth
How do you use Centric PLM?
R&D/Product Development
Simplify communication with one source of truth
Streamline private label and supplier co-created development
Eliminate duplicate data entry and time-consuming manual tasks
Increase efficiency and cross-team collaboration to drive innovation faster
How do you use Centric PLM?
Sourcing
Gain full visibility into material costs/product margins
Control flow of information while giving suppliers access to necessary data
Evaluate and rationalize your supplier base
Issue RFQs en masse and easily compare price quotes
Connect suppliers through the PLM supplier portal to improve collaboration
How do you use Centric PLM?
Quality
Manage quality control and inspections with mobile apps and templates directly connected to PLM that are accessible by all team members in real time
Facilitate supplier self-assessments and other third-party assessments using audit templates, mobile applications, and alert settings
Develop high-quality products that meet consumer expectations
How do you use Centric PLM?
Compliance
Maintain compliance documentation in a single, up-to-date digital location
Flag outliers and adapt rapidly to regulatory changes with change management
Track products throughout the complete lifecycle to manage traceability
Maintain data necessary to meet regulatory requirements and satisfy customers, such as sustainability credentials
How do you use Centric PLM?
Packaging & Artwork
Connect your product packaging briefs directly to the product brief to increase efficiency and accuracy when developing new products
Simplified, cost-efficient approach to package and label development.
Track changes and automatically highlight version discrepancies to manage changing designs
Reviews and comment on 2D and 3D designs within PLM
Approval stage gates ensure nothing slips through the cracks
How do you use Centric PLM?
Manufacturing & Production
Align with brand and retail teams in a cloud-based digital environment for faster time to market
Manage all aspects of R&D, product development, costing and sampling
Respond to RFPs, build tech packs, handle quality testing, manage compliance documentation and more
Track compliance, sustainability and social impact, from raw materials to retail
How do you use Centric PLM?
Planning
Easily see priorities and manage accordingly
View holistically and collaborate on season planning
Know exactly where a product is in its lifecycle
Leverage data from past seasons to forecast demand and plan successful products
Build accurate reports quickly, based on up-to-date information
How do you use Centric PLM?
Merchandising
Manage seasons, departments, collections and specific styles to meet performance targets, using up-to-date information
Gain full visibility into material costs and product margins
Run dynamic what-if scenarios using live data from PLM and other enterprise solutions to make better decisions
Quickly create visual line plans and share information
How do you use Centric PLM?
Design
Eliminate or reduce manual tasks, freeing up time to focus on creativity
Stay in sync with merchandising and planning
Access material libraries and historical product data
Connect 3D design platforms with PLM to streamline product and packaging design
Co-create with suppliers and agencies using a single source of truth
How do you use Centric PLM?
R&D/Product Development
Simplify communication with one source of truth
Streamline private label and supplier co-created development
Eliminate duplicate data entry and time-consuming manual tasks
Increase efficiency and cross-team collaboration to drive innovation faster
How do you use Centric PLM?
Sourcing
Gain full visibility into material costs/product margins
Control flow of information while giving suppliers access to necessary data
Evaluate and rationalize your supplier base
Issue RFQs en masse and easily compare price quotes
Connect suppliers through the PLM supplier portal to improve collaboration
How do you use Centric PLM?
Quality
Manage quality control and inspections with mobile apps and templates directly connected to PLM that are accessible by all team members in real time
Facilitate supplier self-assessments and other third-party assessments using audit templates, mobile applications, and alert settings
Develop high-quality products that meet consumer expectations
How do you use Centric PLM?
Compliance
Maintain compliance documentation in a single, up-to-date digital location
Flag outliers and adapt rapidly to regulatory changes with change management
Track products throughout the complete lifecycle to manage traceability
Maintain data necessary to meet regulatory requirements and satisfy customers, such as sustainability credentials
How do you use Centric PLM?
Packaging & Artwork
Connect your product packaging briefs directly to the product brief to increase efficiency and accuracy when developing new products
Simplified, cost-efficient approach to package and label development.
Track changes and automatically highlight version discrepancies to manage changing designs
Reviews and comment on 2D and 3D designs within PLM
Approval stage gates ensure nothing slips through the cracks
How do you use Centric PLM?
Manufacturing & Production
Align with brand and retail teams in a cloud-based digital environment for faster time to market
Manage all aspects of R&D, product development, costing and sampling
Respond to RFPs, build tech packs, handle quality testing, manage compliance documentation and more
Track compliance, sustainability and social impact, from raw materials to retail
Large or small, companies of all sizes and types drive digital transformation with Centric PLM
Centric PLM innovations empower companies to develop products more efficiently and sustainably.
From nimble DTC startups to long-established global brands expanding their omnichannel reach, our customers rely on Centric PLM to react with agility to market shifts and evolving consumer demand.
Brands
Retailers
Manufacturers & Producers
Direct to Consumer
Licensing & Private Label
Wholesalers
Emerging Brands
Centric PLM is a flexible, modular solution that optimizes all aspects of product ideation, development and launch.
Fashion & Apparel
Home & Furniture
Multi-Category Retail
Food & Beverage
Consumer Electronics
Cosmetics & Personal Care
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Line Planning
Orchestrate seasons, departments, collections and product lines to meet performance targets.
Flexible analytics use always up-to-date product information to aid in the creation of top-down goals and bottom-up estimates. Fully align collection development with financial planning, generate realistic sales forecasts, easily identify outliers that impact performance, and make decisions with confidence based on data, not “guesstimates.”
Centric Fashion Inspiration
Explore limitless design options with Centric Fashion Inspiration™, an AI-powered solution for fashion, outdoor, footwear and accessory brands. Trained on over 10 years of fashion imagery and integrated with Centric PLM™, this tool accelerates ideation, boosting teams to bring trend-driven products to market faster. With access to 1,000+ attributes across 800+ categories, including colors, patterns, materials, styles and more, design teams can quickly generate on-trend concepts. Seamlessly integrated with the PLM workflow, it enables non-designers like buyers and merchandisers to collaborate effectively, ensuring a continuous flow of fresh ideas that meet consumer demand.
Product Specifications
Easy-to-use interface to create and manage multiple product, raw material and packaging specifications.
Communicate specifications effectively to minimize iterations, errors and costs. Track product lifecycle changes and coordinate with all development teams so that designers, technical designers and/or product developers can do their jobs easily and efficiently.
Materials Management
Empower traceability with the ability to track material usage and view the entire lifecycle of a material prior to use in a product.
Manage the process of developing and using simple and complex materials. Analyze trends and manage changes by rolling up information from style to material for reporting, or initiating changes from materials to multiple styles.
Product Sourcing
Connect sourcing teams and suppliers with Centric PLM, streamline communication and access vendor information.
Handle all aspects of sourcing, from selecting suppliers to managing samples and prototypes to negotiating purchase orders. Manage supplier sustainability certifications, track supplier-quoted costs, send RFQs en masse and easily compare quotes.
Calendar Management
Gain full visibility of timelines and manage tasks, deadlines and workflow across teams.
Configure templates to track products against target deadlines and give users visibility into where a product is in its lifecycle as activities are completed, keeping teams on track and enabling greater transparency, collaboration and planning.
Quality Management
Assign quality and safety goals based on both corporate standards as well as channel-specific standards.
Define quality assurance, performance and mechanical tests on products to eliminate quality issues. Specify third party testing standards and track testing completed on materials and samples/styles to enhance quality, brand reputation and consumer loyalty.
Final Inspection
Expand the power of PLM into production with complete, real-time transparency into both vendor performance and production output.
Final Inspection enables brands and retailers to set acceptable quality levels and evaluation points for suppliers on a per product basis, linked to original product specifications. Evaluation criteria and results are communicated digitally prior to goods leaving the manufacturing site and transfer of ownership.
Product Presentations
Save time by creating visual product presentations directly in Centric PLM, pulling real-time data to ensure accuracy.
Filter products, visually organize them into sets, stay on-brand by using corporate fonts and leverage Centric PLM’s Canvas tool to build presentations that drive decision-making. Eliminate the tedious process of exporting visuals from PLM and save time by automatically updating presentations as product data changes.
Visual Assortment Board for PLM
Create superior assortments that optimize performance at retail with the ability to visually interact with live assortment plans.
The Visual Assortment Board for PLM merges thousands of live data points with image libraries to enable real-time team collaboration on what-if scenarios and stop/go assortment decisions.
Curate assortments that meet business objectives faster and with less waste, save valuable human resources, accelerate cycle time and deliver products consumers want to drive profitability across all channels.
Visual Concept Board
Supercharge product innovation by reducing manual and time-consuming tasks and empowering creative collaboration.
The Concept Board is a visually interactive, intuitive digital workspace that enables creative and product development teams to collaborate around inspirations and trends using sketches, photos, videos, 3D images and more.
Reduce or eliminate manual design board creation to free up valuable time and deliver products in a flow that enhances brand performance, consumer retention and profitability.
Visual Sourcing Board
Source more cost-effectively with the ability to compare ‘what-if’ scenarios in a visually interactive workspace.
The Sourcing Board replaces siloed tools and disconnected information, empowering sourcing teams to pull together live data and visuals from multiple platforms and files to visually compare and analyze sourcing options.
Achieve projected lead times with targeted sourcing and the ability to rapidly identify alternatives, source more sustainably and meet vendor capacity targets and production deadlines while controlling costs.
Visual Omnichannel Showroom Board
Maximize omnichannel sales opportunities with a fully digital showroom and catalog experience to reach more clients with less resources at less cost.
The Omnichannel Showroom Board enables faster, more accurate orders with a live visual interactive digital showroom. Build tailored client-centered offers using real-time product, financial and visual data, including 3D, on a single intuitive platform.
Speed time to order commitment among remote teams, eliminate unreliable paper trails and capture 100% of orders and changes digitally and in real-time. Mitigate sales risks, pivot quickly on top performers, drive targeted products across channels and forecast raw material demands accurately for earlier vendor commitment.
Proofing
Easily manage the artwork proofing process with an intuitive, collaborative proofing and reviewing tool.
Proofs are used to collaborate on the content, color and design elements prior to committing the artwork to copy plates and press. Users can create a proof of any document in PLM, define workflows, manage secure access, enable markup and comment threads and approval stage gates to ensure nothing gets missed.
Process Management
Coordinate tasks between people by providing the ability to execute predefined processes in PLM.
A process flow is the repeatable pattern of activities or steps that take place to complete a specific task on a regular basis. Execute process flows against PLM objects to coordinate teams that need to complete tasks, improving efficiency, responsiveness, transparency and productivity.
Line Planning
Orchestrate seasons, departments, collections and product lines to meet performance targets.
Flexible analytics use always up-to-date product information to aid in the creation of top-down goals and bottom-up estimates. Fully align collection development with financial planning, generate realistic sales forecasts, easily identify outliers that impact performance, and make decisions with confidence based on data, not “guesstimates.”
Product Specifications
Easy-to-use interface to create and manage multiple product, raw material and packaging specifications.
Communicate specifications effectively to minimize iterations, errors and costs. Track product lifecycle changes and coordinate with all development teams so that designers, technical designers and/or product developers can do their jobs easily and efficiently.
Materials Management
Empower traceability with the ability to track material usage and view the entire lifecycle of a material prior to use in a product.
Manage the process of developing and using simple and complex materials. Analyze trends and manage changes by rolling up information from style to material for reporting, or initiating changes from materials to multiple styles.
Product Sourcing
Connect sourcing teams and suppliers with Centric PLM, streamline communication and access vendor information.
Handle all aspects of sourcing, from selecting suppliers to managing samples and prototypes to negotiating purchase orders. Manage supplier sustainability certifications, track supplier-quoted costs, send RFQs en masse and easily compare quotes.
Calendar Management
Gain full visibility of timelines and manage tasks, deadlines and workflow across teams.
Configure templates to track products against target deadlines and give users visibility into where a product is in its lifecycle as activities are completed, keeping teams on track and enabling greater transparency, collaboration and planning.
Quality Management
Assign quality and safety goals based on both corporate standards as well as channel-specific standards.
Define quality assurance, performance and mechanical tests on products to eliminate quality issues. Specify third party testing standards and track testing completed on materials and samples/styles to enhance quality, brand reputation and consumer loyalty.
Final Inspection
Expand the power of PLM into production with complete, real-time transparency into both vendor performance and production output.
Final Inspection enables brands and retailers to set acceptable quality levels and evaluation points for suppliers on a per product basis, linked to original product specifications. Evaluation criteria and results are communicated digitally prior to goods leaving the manufacturing site and transfer of ownership.
Proofing
Easily manage the artwork proofing process with an intuitive, collaborative proofing and reviewing tool.
Proofs are used to collaborate on the content, color and design elements prior to committing the artwork to copy plates and press. Users can create a proof of any document in PLM, define workflows, manage secure access, enable markup and comment threads and approval stage gates to ensure nothing gets missed.
Process Management
Coordinate tasks between people by providing the ability to execute predefined processes in PLM.
A process flow is the repeatable pattern of activities or steps that take place to complete a specific task on a regular basis. Execute process flows against PLM objects to coordinate teams that need to complete tasks, improving efficiency, responsiveness, transparency and productivity.
Engineering Change
Manage changes after production begins with the ability to quickly update non-conforming engineered products.
Since engineered products and their related materials are more structured, a simple change can impact multiple styles and materials. Create change requests, systematically identify affected products, easily manage changes and ensure proper approval steps are taken to update products.
Visual Assortment Board for PLM
Create superior assortments that optimize performance at retail with the ability to visually interact with live assortment plans.
The Visual Assortment Board for PLM merges thousands of live data points with image libraries to enable real-time team collaboration on what-if scenarios and stop/go assortment decisions.
Curate assortments that meet business objectives faster and with less waste, save valuable human resources, accelerate cycle time and deliver products consumers want to drive profitability across all channels.
Visual Concept Board
Supercharge product innovation by reducing manual and time-consuming tasks and empowering creative collaboration.
The Concept Board is a visually interactive, intuitive digital workspace that enables creative and product development teams to collaborate around inspirations and trends using sketches, photos, videos, 3D images and more.
Reduce or eliminate manual design board creation to free up valuable time and deliver products in a flow that enhances brand performance, consumer retention and profitability.
Visual Sourcing Board
Source more cost-effectively with the ability to compare ‘what-if’ scenarios in a visually interactive workspace.
The Sourcing Board replaces siloed tools and disconnected information, empowering sourcing teams to pull together live data and visuals from multiple platforms and files to visually compare and analyze sourcing options.
Achieve projected lead times with targeted sourcing and the ability to rapidly identify alternatives, source more sustainably and meet vendor capacity targets and production deadlines while controlling costs.
Visual Omnichannel Showroom Board
Maximize omnichannel sales opportunities with a fully digital showroom and catalog experience to reach more clients with less resources at less cost.
The Omnichannel Showroom Board enables faster, more accurate orders with a live visual interactive digital showroom. Build tailored client-centered offers using real-time product, financial and visual data, including 3D, on a single intuitive platform.
Speed time to order commitment among remote teams, eliminate unreliable paper trails and capture 100% of orders and changes digitally and in real-time. Mitigate sales risks, pivot quickly on top performers, drive targeted products across channels and forecast raw material demands accurately for earlier vendor commitment.
Retail Review
Maintain consistent branding, merchandising, promotions and policies across multiple stores with fast, mobile and effective digital store assessment technology.
Retail Review can be used on mobile devices by store assessors to enter feedback onsite in real time, adding media such as photos, videos or voice recordings. Save time spent entering data back at your desk and get instant reports and corrective plans online in Centric PLM to drive brand consistency and deliver the same quality of experience across all stores.
Line Planning
Orchestrate seasons, departments, collections and product lines to meet performance targets.
Flexible analytics use always up-to-date product information to aid in the creation of top-down goals and bottom-up estimates. Fully align collection development with financial planning, generate realistic sales forecasts, easily identify outliers that impact performance, and make decisions with confidence based on data, not “guesstimates.”
Product Specifications
Easy-to-use interface to create and manage multiple product, raw material and packaging specifications.
Communicate specifications effectively to minimize iterations, errors and costs. Track product lifecycle changes and coordinate with all development teams so that designers, technical designers and/or product developers can do their jobs easily and efficiently.
Materials Management
Empower traceability with the ability to track material usage and view the entire lifecycle of a material prior to use in a product.
Manage the process of developing and using simple and complex materials. Analyze trends and manage changes by rolling up information from style to material for reporting, or initiating changes from materials to multiple styles.
Product Sourcing
Connect sourcing teams and suppliers with Centric PLM, streamline communication and access vendor information.
Handle all aspects of sourcing, from selecting suppliers to managing samples and prototypes to negotiating purchase orders. Manage supplier sustainability certifications, track supplier-quoted costs, send RFQs en masse and easily compare quotes.
Calendar Management
Gain full visibility of timelines and manage tasks, deadlines and workflow across teams.
Configure templates to track products against target deadlines and give users visibility into where a product is in its lifecycle as activities are completed, keeping teams on track and enabling greater transparency, collaboration and planning.
Quality Management
Assign quality and safety goals based on both corporate standards as well as channel-specific standards.
Define quality assurance, performance and mechanical tests on products to eliminate quality issues. Specify third party testing standards and track testing completed on materials and samples/styles to enhance quality, brand reputation and consumer loyalty.
Final Inspection
Expand the power of PLM into production with complete, real-time transparency into both vendor performance and production output.
Final Inspection enables brands and retailers to set acceptable quality levels and evaluation points for suppliers on a per product basis, linked to original product specifications. Evaluation criteria and results are communicated digitally prior to goods leaving the manufacturing site and transfer of ownership.
Proofing
Easily manage the artwork proofing process with an intuitive, collaborative proofing and reviewing tool.
Proofs are used to collaborate on the content, color and design elements prior to committing the artwork to copy plates and press. Users can create a proof of any document in PLM, define workflows, manage secure access, enable markup and comment threads and approval stage gates to ensure nothing gets missed.
Process Management
Coordinate tasks between people by providing the ability to execute predefined processes in PLM.
A process flow is the repeatable pattern of activities or steps that take place to complete a specific task on a regular basis. Execute process flows against PLM objects to coordinate teams that need to complete tasks, improving efficiency, responsiveness, transparency and productivity.
Engineering Change
Manage changes after production begins with the ability to quickly update non-conforming engineered products.
Since engineered products and their related materials are more structured, a simple change can impact multiple styles and materials. Create change requests, systematically identify affected products, easily manage changes and ensure proper approval steps are taken to update products.
Product Presentations
Save time by creating visual product presentations directly in Centric PLM, pulling real-time data to ensure accuracy.
Filter products, visually organize them into sets, stay on-brand by using corporate fonts and leverage Centric PLM’s Canvas tool to build presentations that drive decision-making. Eliminate the tedious process of exporting visuals from PLM and save time by automatically updating presentations as product data changes.
Visual Assortment Board for PLM
Create superior assortments that optimize performance at retail with the ability to visually interact with live assortment plans.
The Visual Assortment Board for PLM merges thousands of live data points with image libraries to enable real-time team collaboration on what-if scenarios and stop/go assortment decisions.
Curate assortments that meet business objectives faster and with less waste, save valuable human resources, accelerate cycle time and deliver products consumers want to drive profitability across all channels.
Visual Concept Board
Supercharge product innovation by reducing manual and time-consuming tasks and empowering creative collaboration.
The Concept Board is a visually interactive, intuitive digital workspace that enables creative and product development teams to collaborate around inspirations and trends using sketches, photos, videos, 3D images and more.
Reduce or eliminate manual design board creation to free up valuable time and deliver products in a flow that enhances brand performance, consumer retention and profitability.
Visual Sourcing Board
Source more cost-effectively with the ability to compare ‘what-if’ scenarios in a visually interactive workspace.
The Sourcing Board replaces siloed tools and disconnected information, empowering sourcing teams to pull together live data and visuals from multiple platforms and files to visually compare and analyze sourcing options.
Achieve projected lead times with targeted sourcing and the ability to rapidly identify alternatives, source more sustainably and meet vendor capacity targets and production deadlines while controlling costs.
Visual Omnichannel Showroom Board
Maximize omnichannel sales opportunities with a fully digital showroom and catalog experience to reach more clients with less resources at less cost.
The Omnichannel Showroom Board enables faster, more accurate orders with a live visual interactive digital showroom. Build tailored client-centered offers using real-time product, financial and visual data, including 3D, on a single intuitive platform.
Speed time to order commitment among remote teams, eliminate unreliable paper trails and capture 100% of orders and changes digitally and in real-time. Mitigate sales risks, pivot quickly on top performers, drive targeted products across channels and forecast raw material demands accurately for earlier vendor commitment.
Centric PLM Base
The configurable foundation for compliant product development and data management.
Centric PLM Base is the platform that hosts the ‘plug-and-play’ modules to manage all the data and design processes associated with the life of a product, from planning/concept development, costing, sourcing and manufacturing to launch at retail. Configure and add modules as needed and connect with external suppliers and partners. Integrate people, data, processes and business systems.
Product Specifications
Easy-to-use interface to create and manage multiple product, raw material and packaging specifications.
Communicate specifications effectively to minimize iterations, errors and costs. Track product lifecycle changes and coordinate with all development teams so that designers, technical designers and/or product developers can do their jobs easily and efficiently.
Recipe & Formulation
Streamline the development of recipes, calculate nutrition information, identify allergens and track claims.
Accelerate formulation development and reduce trial-and-error iterations to cut time to market and associated costs. Track and re-use raw material specifications and experimental formulas and understand the real-time impact of changes on cost, compliance, nutrient data and ingredient labeling to optimize formulations. Link ingredient libraries to USDA/CIQUAL for accuracy and compliance.
Product Sourcing & Costing
Effectively manage supplier co-development and speed up calls for tenders.
Maintain global visibility of your supply chain and sourcing relationships to improve supply chain performance. Issue RFQs en masse and easily compare quotes for more accurate costing. Automate supplier approvals and connect suppliers with PLM to manage document uploads, certificate renewals, data entry and artwork reviews.
Change Management
Manage complex changes to products more efficiently.
A simple change can impact multiple products and materials. Create a change request from a product, raw material, ingredient or SKU, systematically identify affected products, easily manage changes and ensure proper approval steps are taken to update products. Increase the visibility of changes and execute bulk changes in seconds.
Packaging & Artwork
Manage artwork, packaging design/development and consumer labeling.
Streamline packaging and labeling to cut time to market with collaborative design and proofing tools. Aggregate all up-to-date packaging and labeling information, from technical data on ingredients and label claims to marketing data, for use on consumer and trade packaging. Respond to consumer demand for sustainable packaging while maximizing efficiency to keep costs down. Save time and money by supporting the efficient reuse of designs.
Project Management
Create flexible projects or workflows for products, assortments or modifications and gain full visibility of timelines.
Accelerate product development and launches to reach the market faster, improve the success rate of new products and increase ROI for product development. Manage projects across functions and geographic locations via a web-enabled platform, track all activities and decisions and make portfolio-level decisions based on visibility of aggregated project metrics.
Quality & Compliance
Ensure product quality, consumer safety and regulatory compliance.
Assign quality and safety goals based on both corporate standards as well as channel-specific standards. Manage conformance to specification through testing protocols, avoid rework and recalls by building compliance screening into new product development, validate claims through the new product development process and maintain accurate raw materials data.
Portfolio & Merchandise Planning
Manage and optimize your product portfolio and assortments to meet performance targets and optimize new product development.
Align financial objectives with merchandise plans, run what-if scenarios and roll up actual financials for analysis in top-down and bottom-up planning. Quickly react to market changes to preserve or increase revenues and margins, control product costs by driving supply chain simplification and maintain data accuracy and completeness in product catalogs and presentations.
Product Presentations
Save time by creating visual product presentations directly in Centric PLM, pulling real-time data to ensure accuracy.
Filter products, visually organize them into sets, stay on-brand by using corporate fonts and leverage Centric PLM’s Canvas tool to build presentations that drive decision-making. Eliminate the tedious process of exporting visuals from PLM and save time by automatically updating presentations as product data changes.
Visual Assortment Board for PLM
Create superior assortments that optimize performance at retail with the ability to visually interact with live assortment plans.
The Visual Assortment Board for PLM merges thousands of live data points with image libraries to enable real-time team collaboration on what-if scenarios and stop/go assortment decisions.
Curate assortments that meet business objectives faster and with less waste, save valuable human resources, accelerate cycle time and deliver products consumers want to drive profitability across all channels.
Visual Concept Board
Supercharge product innovation by reducing manual and time-consuming tasks and empowering creative collaboration.
The Concept Board is a visually interactive, intuitive digital workspace that enables creative and product development teams to collaborate around inspirations and trends using sketches, photos, videos, 3D images and more.
Reduce or eliminate manual design board creation to free up valuable time and deliver products in a flow that enhances brand performance, consumer retention and profitability.
Visual Sourcing Board
Source more cost-effectively with the ability to compare ‘what-if’ scenarios in a visually interactive workspace.
The Sourcing Board replaces siloed tools and disconnected information, empowering sourcing teams to pull together live data and visuals from multiple platforms and files to visually compare and analyze sourcing options.
Achieve projected lead times with targeted sourcing and the ability to rapidly identify alternatives, source more sustainably and meet vendor capacity targets and production deadlines while controlling costs.
Visual Omnichannel Showroom Board
Maximize omnichannel sales opportunities with a fully digital showroom and catalog experience to reach more clients with less resources at less cost.
The Omnichannel Showroom Board enables faster, more accurate orders with a live visual interactive digital showroom. Build tailored client-centered offers using real-time product, financial and visual data, including 3D, on a single intuitive platform.
Speed time to order commitment among remote teams, eliminate unreliable paper trails and capture 100% of orders and changes digitally and in real-time. Mitigate sales risks, pivot quickly on top performers, drive targeted products across channels and forecast raw material demands accurately for earlier vendor commitment.
Merchandise Planning
Manage all global categories and product lines to meet performance targets.
Flexible analytics use always up-to-date product data to aid in the creation of top-down goals and bottom-up estimates. Fully align collection development with financial planning, generate realistic sales forecasts, easily identify outliers that impact performance, and make decisions with confidence based on data, not “guesstimates.”
Product Specification & Proofing
Easy-to-use interface to manage product, material, component and packaging specifications and proofing.
Communicate specifications effectively to minimize iterations, errors and costs. Track product lifecycle changes and coordinate teams so that designers, technical designers and/or product developers can work easily and efficiently. Manage the artwork proofing process with an intuitive, collaborative proofing and reviewing tool.
Component and Material Management
Empower traceability with the ability to track component usage and view the entire lifecycle of a material prior to use in a product.
Manage the process of developing and using simple and complex components. Analyze usage and manage changes by rolling up information from product to component for reporting, or initiate changes from components to multiple items.
Product Sourcing
Connect sourcing teams and suppliers with Centric PLM, streamline communication and access vendor information.
Orchestrate sourcing, from selecting suppliers to managing samples and prototypes to negotiating purchase orders. Manage supplier sustainability certifications, track supplier-quoted costs, send RFQs en masse and easily compare quotes.
Engineering Change Control
Manage changes after production begins with the ability to quickly update non-conforming engineered products.
Since engineered products and their related materials are more structured, a simple change can impact multiple styles and materials. Create change requests, systematically identify affected products, easily manage changes and ensure proper approval steps are taken to update products.
Calendar Management
Gain full visibility of timelines and manage tasks, deadlines and workflow across teams.
Configure templates to track products against target deadlines and give users visibility into where a product is in its lifecycle as activities are completed, keeping teams on track and enabling greater transparency, collaboration and planning.
QMS & Compliance
Record compliance at every stage of product development and ensure quality standards with a built-in Quality Management Solution (QMS).
Maintain full visibility and decision stage gate history attached directly to product records. Assign quality and safety goals based on both corporate standards as well as channel-specific standards. Manage conformance to specification through testing protocols and avoid rework and recalls by building compliance screening into new product development.
Process Management
Coordinate tasks between people by providing the ability to execute predefined processes in PLM.
A process flow is the repeatable pattern of activities or steps that take place to complete a specific task on a regular basis. Execute process flows against PLM objects to coordinate teams that need to complete tasks, improving efficiency, responsiveness, transparency and productivity.
Visual Assortment Board for PLM
Create superior assortments that optimize performance at retail with the ability to visually interact with live assortment plans.
The Visual Assortment Board for PLM merges thousands of live data points with image libraries to enable real-time team collaboration on what-if scenarios and stop/go assortment decisions.
Curate assortments that meet business objectives faster and with less waste, save valuable human resources, accelerate cycle time and deliver products consumers want to drive profitability across all channels.
Visual Concept Board
Supercharge product innovation by reducing manual and time-consuming tasks and empowering creative collaboration.
The Concept Board is a visually interactive, intuitive digital workspace that enables creative and product development teams to collaborate around inspirations and trends using sketches, photos, videos, 3D images and more.
Reduce or eliminate manual design board creation to free up valuable time and deliver products in a flow that enhances brand performance, consumer retention and profitability.
Visual Sourcing Board
Source more cost-effectively with the ability to compare ‘what-if’ scenarios in a visually interactive workspace.
The Sourcing Board replaces siloed tools and disconnected information, empowering sourcing teams to pull together live data and visuals from multiple platforms and files to visually compare and analyze sourcing options.
Achieve projected lead times with targeted sourcing and the ability to rapidly identify alternatives, source more sustainably and meet vendor capacity targets and production deadlines while controlling costs.
Visual Omnichannel Showroom Board
Maximize omnichannel sales opportunities with a fully digital showroom and catalog experience to reach more clients with less resources at less cost.
The Omnichannel Showroom Board enables faster, more accurate orders with a live visual interactive digital showroom. Build tailored client-centered offers using real-time product, financial and visual data, including 3D, on a single intuitive platform.
Speed time to order commitment among remote teams, eliminate unreliable paper trails and capture 100% of orders and changes digitally and in real-time. Mitigate sales risks, pivot quickly on top performers, drive targeted products across channels and forecast raw material demands accurately for earlier vendor commitment.
Centric PLM Base
The configurable foundation for compliant product development and data management.
Centric PLM Base is the platform that hosts the ‘plug-and-play’ modules to manage all the data and design processes associated with the life of a product, from planning/concept development, costing, sourcing and manufacturing to launch at retail. Configure and add modules as needed and connect with external suppliers and partners. Integrate people, data, processes and business systems.
Product Specifications
Easy-to-use interface to create and manage multiple product, raw material and packaging specifications.
Communicate specifications effectively to minimize iterations, errors and costs. Track product lifecycle changes and coordinate with all development teams so that designers, technical designers and/or product developers can do their jobs easily and efficiently.
Trials & Formulation Management
Streamline the development of formulations, manage trials, optimize costs and track compliance.
Accelerate formulation development and reduce trial-and-error iterations to cut time to market and associated costs. Link with the INCI database as a library for QQ formula generation. Track and re-use raw material specifications and experimental formulas and understand the real-time impact
Product Sourcing & Costing
Effectively manage collaboration with suppliers and speed up calls for tenders.
Maintain global visibility of your supply chain and sourcing relationships to improve supply chain performance. Issue RFQs en masse and easily compare quotes for more accurate costing. Automate supplier approvals, collaborate with suppliers digitally and share policy and procedure documentation to facilitate compliance.
Change Management
Manage complex changes to products more efficiently.
A simple change can impact multiple products and materials. Create a change request from a product, raw material, ingredient or SKU, systematically identify affected products, easily manage changes and ensure proper approval steps are taken to update products. Increase the visibility of changes and execute bulk changes in seconds.
Packaging & Labeling
Manage packaging design/development, artwork proofing and consumer labeling.
Streamline packaging and labeling to cut time to market with collaborative design and proofing tools. Aggregate all up-to-date packaging and labeling information, from technical data on ingredients and label claims to marketing data, for use on consumer and trade packaging. Respond to consumer demand for sustainable packaging while maximizing efficiency to keep costs down. Save time and money by supporting the efficient reuse of designs.
Innovation & Project Management
Create flexible projects or workflows, gain full visibility of timelines and free up teams to innovate and create.
Accelerate product development and launches to reach the market faster, improve the success rate of new products and increase ROI for product development. Manage projects across functions and geographic regions, track all activities and decisions and free teams from time-consuming admin work to power creativity.
Compliance & Quality Management
Ensure product quality, consumer safety and regulatory compliance.
Assign quality and safety goals based on both corporate standards as well as channel-specific standards. Manage ingredient screening and toxicology, stability, compatibility and efficacy testing. Ensure conformance to specification, avoid rework and recalls by building compliance screening into new product development, validate claims through the product development process and maintain accurate raw materials data, Product Information Files and documentation (SDS, COA).
Portfolio & Merchandise Planning
Manage and optimize your product portfolio and assortments to meet performance targets and optimize new product development.
Align financial objectives with merchandise plans, run what-if scenarios and roll up actual financials for analysis in top-down and bottom-up planning. Quickly react to market changes to preserve or increase revenues and margins, control product costs by driving supply chain simplification and maintain data accuracy and completeness in product catalogs and presentations.
Product Presentations
Save time by creating visual product presentations directly in Centric PLM, pulling real-time data to ensure accuracy.
Filter products, visually organize them into sets, stay on-brand by using corporate fonts and leverage Centric PLM’s Canvas tool to build presentations that drive decision-making. Eliminate the tedious process of exporting visuals from PLM and save time by automatically updating presentations as product data changes.
Visual Assortment Board for PLM
Create superior assortments that optimize performance at retail with the ability to visually interact with live assortment plans.
The Visual Assortment Board for PLM merges thousands of live data points with image libraries to enable real-time team collaboration on what-if scenarios and stop/go assortment decisions.
Curate assortments that meet business objectives faster and with less waste, save valuable human resources, accelerate cycle time and deliver products consumers want to drive profitability across all channels.
Visual Concept Board
Supercharge product innovation by reducing manual and time-consuming tasks and empowering creative collaboration.
The Concept Board is a visually interactive, intuitive digital workspace that enables creative and product development teams to collaborate around inspirations and trends using sketches, photos, videos, 3D images and more.
Reduce or eliminate manual design board creation to free up valuable time and deliver products in a flow that enhances brand performance, consumer retention and profitability.
Visual Sourcing Board
Source more cost-effectively with the ability to compare ‘what-if’ scenarios in a visually interactive workspace.
The Sourcing Board replaces siloed tools and disconnected information, empowering sourcing teams to pull together live data and visuals from multiple platforms and files to visually compare and analyze sourcing options.
Achieve projected lead times with targeted sourcing and the ability to rapidly identify alternatives, source more sustainably and meet vendor capacity targets and production deadlines while controlling costs.
Visual Omnichannel Showroom Board
Maximize omnichannel sales opportunities with a fully digital showroom and catalog experience to reach more clients with less resources at less cost.
The Omnichannel Showroom Board enables faster, more accurate orders with a live visual interactive digital showroom. Build tailored client-centered offers using real-time product, financial and visual data, including 3D, on a single intuitive platform.
Speed time to order commitment among remote teams, eliminate unreliable paper trails and capture 100% of orders and changes digitally and in real-time. Mitigate sales risks, pivot quickly on top performers, drive targeted products across channels and forecast raw material demands accurately for earlier vendor commitment.
Execute Sustainability with Centric PLM
Raw Materials Management
Carbon Footprint
Waste Management
Supply Chain Certification
Social Responsibility
Circularity
Raw Materials Management
Brands, retailers and manufacturers need to find sustainable alternatives to materials that depend on high usage of water, energy, natural resources and harmful chemicals.
Centric PLM provides a platform to track and manage raw materials from their source, measure key sustainability criteria and identify suitable alternatives.
Carbon Footprint
One digital space for product information enables end-to-end traceability that includes carbon footprint data through integration with all leading sources of Scope 3 emissions databases.
Powerful sourcing comparison tools make it easier to understand the impact of different sourcing options and reduce the environmental cost of shipping, support local producers and make supply chains more transparent.
Waste Management
Centric PLM improves visibility and accuracy throughout the entire supply chain to lessen waste, reduce or eliminate the disposal of unwanted or unsold inventory and dramatically reduce costs associated with overstock storage.
Integration with 3D technology reduces physical sampling costs and cuts development time to increase product margins.
Supply Chain Certification
Track suppliers and their certifications, using whatever paper trail complies with your company requirements.
Manage compliance programs and vendor certification, from raw materials to labor practices to the recyclability of packaging.
Ensure transparency for consumers.
Social Responsibility
Document data at the product and factory levels to validate claims surrounding sustainability and ethics.
Set audit criteria to conform to labor, carbon footprint, resource and waste management standards.
Manage supply chains and customer communication with a truly open, quality-focused and personal approach.
Circularity
Design and develop product lines using consumer feedback, gather data on real-world product faults and repairs to inform manufacturers and improve quality, source durable materials more cost-effectively and innovate products that are designed for long service life.
Access environmental impact data to determine product end-of-life options.
18,000+ Brands Brought to Market with Centric Software
500+ ditched spreadsheets and emails
200+ replaced a legacy PLM system
Thirdlove Shapes Their Future with Centric PLM™
Today, ThirdLove enjoys one single source of the truth in a central data repository, their processes are more clearly defined and their tech packs are virtually error-free, ensuring operational excellence. What journey did they take with Centric PLM to solidify their digital foundation?
Read the Success Story“PLM has become one single source of truth in the creative process that didn’t exist before.”
— Marcus Chung, VP of Manufacturing and Supply Chain at ThirdLove
Rothy’s: It’s Easy Being Green with Centric PLM
Rothy’s was founded with eco-consciousness baked right into their DNA. Having efficient workflows make their mission of sustainable footwear manufacturing easier to manage.
“ From a human perspective, Centric PLM makes life much easier for our people in design, product development and manufacturing. We’re able to work directly with our factory… and eliminate the countless other manual steps that existed before Centric.”
— Heather Howard, COO at Rothy's
P.E Nation Handles Exceptional Growth with Centric PLM
Despite celebrating exceptional growth, even during the Covid-19 pandemic, Mark Rogers, Head of Operations at P.E Nation, reflects on a time when teams felt the frustration and stress of working with multiple data sources. “A small business, rapid growth, increased SKU counts – we were increasing our range across different categories and we began to see pain points.” Fast forward a matter of months and that frustration has been improved thanks to Centric PLM.
Read the Success Story“The ease of the interface, the usability, the fact that we can generate reports out of it- it’s a one-stop shop, Centric made sense to us.”
— Mark Rogers, Head of Operations at P.E Nation
Helly Hansen Boosts Product Innovation with the Power of Centric PLM
The trailbazing outdoor brand, Helly Hansen, once struggled with data management, visibility and version control across multiple software platforms. When the Helly Hansen group acquired MUSTO in 2018, integrating a new brand brought additional challenges. However, MUSTO had been a happy Centric Software® customer for many years, and, in 2019, Helly Hansen decided to also implement Centric PLM to harmonize data and processes across both brands and within Helly Hansen’s own departments.
Read the Success Story“We’re growing fast and, in order to develop innovative, high quality products efficiently, we needed a clear overview of who was doing what, where and when. Before Centric PLM, one of our biggest challenges was a lack of accountability, with each department using different tools and platforms.”
— Ferdinand Diener, Process and Quality Manager at Helly Hansen
Deuter Fuels Faster Decision Making with Centric PLM
“For the past 25 years, we have had one longstanding manufacturing partner in Vietnam who makes all of our backpacks and our developers travel there a lot. Often decisions about products are made there, on the spot. In the past, these changes were not always documented very well for our teams back home. This has now totally changed. People can discuss product alterations at the factory and enter these decisions in Centric PLM while on the road so that everyone can see them. It has very much improved our style of working.”
Read the Success StoryBetter overview of production & development schedules
Time saved searching for product information
Organized, accessible, detailed material data & BOMs
Klim Climbs Steadily Upward with Centric PLM™
“We work on such a wide variety of products that it’s just so complex to manage. Our offerings range from carbon fiber helmets, to snowmobile boots, to GoreTex outerwear pieces, to motorcycle airbags. There’s no way we could have handled it all just with Excel files and emails”.
Ryan Harris, Vice President of Product gives his observations on managing their products without PLM. KLIM recognized early on that they needed to have a single source of the truth for all product data so that critical information was accessible at all times.
25%
reduction in sample lead times
30%
increase in e-comm channel sales
Purcotton Builds a Collaborative, Efficient and Open Product Development Management Platform with Centric PLM
“The implementation of PLM saves us time and material costs, and allows us to continuously amass experience, thus realizing data aggregation throughout the value chain to form PurCotton’s brand DNA.”
Purcotton joins hands with Centric Software to build a cross-departmental PLM platform that supports multiple R&D and product ideation models, leading to more efficient operations.
1500+
system fields organized
3
strategic objectives achieved
Multicategory Retailer Big Lots Streamlines Supplier Collaboration with Centric PLM
“The flexibility and best practices embedded in Centric PLM and the project’s Agile Deployment methodology enabled us to react quickly and gave us immediate visibility when the US made the decision to impose tariffs on Chinese goods.”
Leading North American multicategory retailer Big Lots turned to Centric PLM to successfully streamline private label sourcing and development for both food and non-food items.
All divisions managed in one repository
Efficient supplier requests & quote comparison
Improved speed and accuracy
Tape à l’Œil Meet Strategic Goals and Keep Up Team Spirit with Centric PLM
“With Centric PLM, our data is now much more reliable since each product is automatically associated with its retail price, store format and category.”
Read the Success Story3,500
products managed
6
months to implement
Riachuelo Meets Fast-Changing Consumer Demands with Centric PLM
“Because of the agility that PLM gives us, like the reduction of time to market and product development lead time, we are now able to capture new trends. For example, with changes sparked by the pandemic, our customers want more products for indoor, at-home living. We are now able to respond and quickly adapt our collections to what our customers are asking for.”
Flávia Märtino, Product Manager at Riachuelo, explains how Centric’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software was crucial to delivering the exact products consumers want. PLM enabled the company to work faster and achieve cost savings, even during a time of major market disruption.
Faster time to market
Standardization of processes in different departments
More sustainability and speed in the sample cycle
Ernsting’s Family Chooses Centric Software’s Full PLM Team Support
“We feel very strongly supported by the Centric CAMS support team. Any time we have an issue, we can get an answer immediately. We have the support when we need it. It is the greatest benefit, I think!”
— Jyrina Volmer, IT Coordinator for Product Development and Software Engineering Manager at Ernsting’s family at Ernsting’s Family
Optimized processes
Freed up to focus on business and product development
Seamlessly connect PLM to other programs and platforms
Four Hands Increases Visibility, Efficiency and Accuracy with Centric PLM™
“There was no single source of truth for product information. It was scattered in multiple spreadsheets and local computers housing product attributes. You never knew which information was accurate, which was the latest version.”
Douglas Estremadoyro, VP of Business Innovation at Four Hands recalls their product development process from a few short years ago.
Today, all product information is housed in one accessible place, product development visibility and efficiencies are significantly improved, data accuracy is up and work duplication is reduced. What drove this transformation?
Visibility and reporting drastically improved
Increased process efficiencies
Improved data accuracy
Starpro Empowers R&D Management with Centric PLM
“We spent eight months evaluating and selecting an R&D system provider, using a detailed 9-step process for selection scoring. We organized and analyzed over a hundred requirements from decision-makers to actual users, and combined multiple demonstrations based on hypothetical scenarios. In the end, we chose Centric PLM. For Starpro, the process of ‘focusing more on selection than implementation’ was crucial.”
— Li Chenhong, R&D Director of Starpro
Streamlined R&D data and created a repository as a collaborative platform
Enhanced control over costs, status and risk management
Swiftly addressing customer needs through rapid iteration
Centric PLM Empowers Modern Gourmet Foods to Save Money Through Better Collaboration and Visibility
“I know we’ve saved six figures a year in project management time, simply by having a collaborative system and a single, actionable version of the truth.”
Read the Success Story$100K
saved annually on project management
60
days to implement in 2 continents
Guangzhou Restaurant Group Transforms Cantonese Cuisine with Centric PLM
“Thanks to close collaboration between the Guangzhou Restaurant R&D center and the Centric Software team, the PLM project has achieved the fastest and most user-driven implementation among all it projects ever carried out by Guangzhou Restaurant Group.”
— Huang Dayao, Business Director at Guangzhou
Improved R&D efficiency and quality
Improved integrity and utilization of R&D data
Solid data foundation for products
Centric PLM Drives Innovation to Push Market Success at InterDesign
“I want to be able to go to one place to see product dimensions, product weights, colors, colorways, to see SKUs involved . . . we did not have a tool that allowed us to do that before. It was a lot of manual work to get even fairly simple answers.”
Brandon Gray, Engineer and Subject Matter Expert at InterDesign describes the situation at their company prior to Centric PLM™.
Product information now accessible
Total product definition at the front end
Improved efficiency and communication
How Targus Powers Up Product Development with Centric PLM
“We knew that the right PLM provider would be able to share best practices from their experiences with other partners and Centric has a wealth of specialized knowledge.”
Global brand and laptop case pioneers, Targus, successfully use centric PLM to enable global product teams to work more closely with procurement teams, saving time and increasing accuracy.
5
regional offices using PLM
4
time zones collaborating
Visionnaire Drive Craftmanship and Competitiveness with Centric PLM
Today, Visionnaire has successfully implemented Centric PLM and is on track to complete its revolutionary digital project in 2020. The high-end furniture-makers have aligned information throughout the organization with a single version of the truth, giving them instant control over collection development and greater versatility in the way they configure individual products and the manufacturing process.
How did Visionnaire successfully create an integrated product data infrastructure with the support of Centric PLM?
Smooth integration with ERP and CPQ solutions
Improved transparency and communication
Ability to collaborate effectively with suppliers
KIKO Milano Drive Efficiency and Launch Products Faster with Centric PLM
“We release many new products every year. Managing all these new products and all the related data is definitely not easy, especially because the data is managed by different departments.”
Maria Viglione, Sourcing & Purchasing Manager at KIKO Milano explains the difficulties of handling complex cosmetics products without one single source of truth.
Fast forward to today, and KIKO Milano are proudly using Centric Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) to develop products from concept all the way through to store. Here is KIKO Milano’s journey.
Clear milestone management
Consistent management of accurate information
Efficient integration with ERP
Premier Anti-Aging Selects Centric PLM™ to Consolidate Product Information
Japanese cosmetics company partners with Centric Software® to improve efficiency and speed time to market of products and services
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AlumierMD Selects Centric PLM™ for a Central Source of Product Information and to Save Time
AlumierMD, the medical skincare brand, has selected Centric Software®’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.
Read the Press ReleaseWhat Makes Centric PLM Different?
Continuously innovated hand-in-hand with fast-moving consumer goods and fashion brands, retailers, producers and manufacturers to address real industry needs.
Open-Ended Platform
Centric PLM is a configurable, modular platform that can be adapted to your specific goals and processes.
Add modules as needed and integrate easily with other enterprise solutions such as ERP, e-commerce, PIM, legacy PLM, supply chain management and 2D and 3D design software.
Push and pull live data from anywhere into PLM to get the full picture of everything product-related, from financial targets to packaging artwork mock-ups, materials and even team chats.
Culture of Innovation
Centric Software’s PLM experts work closely with our Customer Advisory Board and Innovation Partners across a broad range of verticals to innovate original, practical solutions that respond directly to today’s market challenges and business needs.
Centric’s culture of innovation, combined with our commitment to customer satisfaction, results in frequent new product releases: 2 major and 2 minor releases every year, as well as regular mobile app updates.
100% Go-Live Rate
We have the commitment and expertise to deliver for our customers, every time. Centric’s unique Agile Deployment methodology, remote, in-person or a combination of both, is driven by industry best practices and a wealth of experience.
Quickly see tangible benefits, even during implementation, with the fastest time to value and ROI of any PLM solution. Implement in months or even weeks, minimize total cost of ownership, simplify data migrations and update easily. Centric PLM can deployed fully remotely.
Data- and Visually-Driven
Centric PLM’s user-friendly interface makes it possible to view product-related data in many dimensions, diving deep into analytical reporting data or interacting with drag-and-drop product visuals to dynamically build lines or create what-if scenarios. Integrate everything from sales data to 3D sample files in one digital location to facilitate different user needs and ways of working.
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PLM for all Business Sizes
From startups to global giants, Centric PLM can be adapted to suit your specific business needs, resources and strategy for growth. Add modules as needed to Centric’s flexible and configurable platform, integrate with your existing enterprise solutions, and easily onboard employees with a user-friendly, intuitive interface.
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3D Strategy
Centric has pioneered a solution-agnostic 3D integration strategy, continuously adding connectors to leading 3D design tools that enable users to work with these files directly in Centric PLM.
3D integration gives customers the ability to ideate fast, reduce physical samples and push photo-realistic products to e-commerce channels or in store.
Open-Ended Platform
Centric PLM is a configurable, modular platform that can be adapted to your specific goals and processes.
Add modules as needed and integrate easily with other enterprise solutions such as ERP, e-commerce, PIM, legacy PLM, supply chain management and 2D and 3D design software.
Push and pull live data from anywhere into PLM to get the full picture of everything product-related, from financial targets to packaging artwork mock-ups, materials and even team chats.
Culture of Innovation
Centric Software’s PLM experts work closely with our Customer Advisory Board and Innovation Partners across a broad range of verticals to innovate original, practical solutions that respond directly to today’s market challenges and business needs.
Centric’s culture of innovation, combined with our commitment to customer satisfaction, results in frequent new product releases: 2 major and 2 minor releases every year, as well as regular mobile app updates.
100% Go-Live Rate
We have the commitment and expertise to deliver for our customers, every time. Centric’s unique Agile Deployment methodology, remote, in-person or a combination of both, is driven by industry best practices and a wealth of experience.
Quickly see tangible benefits, even during implementation, with the fastest time to value and ROI of any PLM solution. Implement in months or even weeks, minimize total cost of ownership, simplify data migrations and update easily. Centric PLM can deployed fully remotely.
Data- and Visually-Driven
Centric PLM’s user-friendly interface makes it possible to view product-related data in many dimensions, diving deep into analytical reporting data or interacting with drag-and-drop product visuals to dynamically build lines or create what-if scenarios. Integrate everything from sales data to 3D sample files in one digital location to facilitate different user needs and ways of working.
PLM for all Business Sizes
From startups to global giants, Centric PLM can be adapted to suit your specific business needs, resources and strategy for growth. Add modules as needed to Centric’s flexible and configurable platform, integrate with your existing enterprise solutions, and easily onboard employees with a user-friendly, intuitive interface.
3D Strategy
Centric has pioneered a solution-agnostic 3D integration strategy, continuously adding connectors to leading 3D design tools that enable users to work with these files directly in Centric PLM.
3D integration gives customers the ability to ideate fast, reduce physical samples and push photo-realistic products to e-commerce channels or in store.
Open-Ended with
Integrations and Connectors
Centric PLM is open-ended and integrates easily with other platforms, including leading ERP, design, 2D and 3D CAD, sustainability, industry databases & modelling, communication, supply chain management and e-commerce solutions.
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Find out how Centric PLM empowers consumer goods retailers, brands, manufacturers and producers of all kinds to use resources more efficiently, speed time to market and build a foundation for growth.
Security and Data Compliance Built-in
Centric Software has implemented governance, risk management, and compliance practices that align with the most globally recognized information security frameworks. Centric Software has achieved SOC 3 attestation and is GDPR compliant.
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Make better a reality. Centric PLM transforms concept-to-replenishment product innovation and development to enhance speed, efficiency and sustainability. Find out how in just 60 minutes.
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