Discover the Power of Centric Retail PLM

Speed Time to Market

Centric Retail PLM speeds time to market in a thousand different ways by cutting out inefficiency and keeping each SKU on its critical path. From faster and easier communication with suppliers, clearer RFP’s and design proposals, to reduced back and forth questions, to jump starting the internal buying process and eliminating un-necessary delays while managing by exception, Retail PLM keeps teams focused and fast.

Increase Product Introduction Success

Centralize merchandise development plans, gain visibility and establish targets earlier to take the guess work out of new product launches with Centric Retail PLM.

Easily see complex product mixes across branded and private label assortments to identify development opportunities to design and develop the most desired products your customers crave.

Boost Product Innovation

Consumers love innovative, new products and they will help drive sales and retain market leadership; Centric Retail PLM is the backbone of a product innovation strategy. With highly visual technologies that enable designers, technical and production teams or even supplier co-creation, creativity flows. Fully leverage product tester feedback with mobile apps that connect right back to product teams and more.

Launch More SKUs

In order to offer a variety of well-designed goods, hundreds of thousands of design proposals or prototypes might be reviewed with as few as ten percent retained. Centric Retail PLM gives teams the power to manage more SKUs at once and drive more new products. One user can create hundreds of SKUs and multiple seasons at once and efficiently manage requests for design and samples.

Get Closer to Consumers

Did you know that Centric Retail PLM can provide the foundation for product personalization? And after sales service? Improvements in product quality?

With a variety of flexible and easy to use product-centered modules and apps, leading retailers are accomplishing these goals and more that allow them to build customer intimacy and improve customer satisfaction.

Lower COGS & Improve Product Margins

The name of the retail game is keeping costs low and pushing product margins higher.

Centric Retail PLM’s powerful Slicer tool can analyze season’s or year’s worth of information to answer questions about financial and supplier performance.

Material costs and other complex queries like the impact of tariffs, changing transportation costs, calculating MOQs that require significant “what-iffing” and number crunching are made easy.

Streamline Private/White Label & Supplier Co-Created Development

Whether creating private label products with internal designs team or co-creating with trusted suppliers, Centric Retail PLM was made to manage product development.

Designers work in Adobe but can push designs to PLM for developers and merchandising teams who build assortments and connect with suppliers to instantly share the most up-to-date product information and handle design proposals.

Paper files, spreadsheets, hundreds of emails, manual data entry mistakes and miscommunication are eliminated speeding the entire process.

Maximize Product Assortment Value

Improve decision making and collaboration with Centric’s ground-breaking Visual Innovation Platform (Centric VIP) Digital Buying Board.

This highly-visual platform for touch-based devices like tablets, touchscreen televisions and web applications powers assortment planning between central, regional merchandising teams, internal buyers and e-commerce teams. Connected teams can review, manage and plan ideal product mixes and target quantities for different markets, geographies and sales channels.