Artificial intelligence

Real-Time Retail with AI

From concept to replenishment, empower your creative and operational processes with intelligent automation, using powerful PLM, Planning, Market Intelligence and Pricing solutions.

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Discover how leading brands benefit from our AI innovations

Integrate AI across the entire product lifecycle

Pre-season

Leverage AI to solve challenges in the pre-season stage. Bring teams together and utilize vast amounts of data to drive smart decision making.

Design inspiration
Consumer trend analysis
Product development
Merchandise financial planning
Assortment creation

In-season

Understand, execute and respond in real-time during in-season. Empower teams to be responsive and agile to external market pressures while safeguarding margin.

Consumer trend analysis
Initial price, promotion and clearance
Allocate, replenish and re-order
Inventory management and optimization

AI-embedded technology is crucial across each stage of a product’s life.

Optimize 1000s of SKUs across various channels and stores alongside ever-changing trends, consumer behavior and competitor strategy. Without AI tools it is impossible to dissect and act on massive amounts of data in real-time.

Speed time to market by up to 60%

Enable designers and merchandisers to keep on top of emerging trends with powerful AI-driven market intelligence. Leverage generative AI image tools to accelerate new product design and get more items into development faster.

Grow revenue by up to 18%

Develop AI-assisted advanced forecasts to develop the right assortments that will sell. Identify high performing items, slow sellers and products to increase cross-selling. Use powerful AI-insights to make high impact decisions to grow revenue.

Improve margins by up to 15%

Ensure product portfolio optimization with robust AI tools to get the right assortments in front of customers. Reduce the need for markdowns and increase the chances of selling more items at full price to improve margins.

Reduce inventory by up to 30%

Move away from guesswork inventory management that leads to stockouts and surpluses, and utilize AI to easily tweak inventory in-season for optimal stock levels. Reduce the need for heavily discounted clearance sales to maximize selling velocity.

Reduce COGS by up to 15%

Intelligently search for previous products to jumpstart collections by re-existing PLM data whether styles, materials or suppliers. Streamline workflows, accelerate product development and lower the cost of goods sold.

Improve productivity up to 50%

Speed design, quickly identify trends and work from up-to-date forecasts to ensure optimal inventory levels across channels. Automate 1000s of decisions to improve productivity at all stages of the product lifecycle whether design, development or pricing.

AI automation you can control

Today AI is necessary to be competitive. It makes teams more predictable at a time when unpredictability in the retail landscape is high. Centric Software has over a decade of retail data with billions of datapoints and the necessary industry best practices to train AI algorithms, as well as a deep understanding of PLM, planning, pricing and inventory optimization.

Facilitate human-educated decisions with data-driven automation to maximize margins and grow revenue.

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Before COVID, we had a 5.6% operating margin at the end of fiscal year 2020. We closed this past year at 12%. It is a huge improvement in profits! ...If we had had a lot of inventory, we could not have done it. Centric Planning has been an enabler to truly follow our strategy and increase our profitability in a very, very big way.

— Daniel Botey, Vice President of Global Inventory Management

Product marketing was spending 1-1.5 days to create a specific report that they use most. Now, with the click of a button, you can have it in 15 minutes, max.

— Jose Perez, Senior PLM Brand Operations at Swarovski

After a show or a sales meeting, everything we need to place an order is ready in the BOM. The only thing we need to do is enter any requirements a specific customer might have. This saves us 8 days of work.

— Jinye Dai, Product Development Coordination Manager

We wanted a solution where we could right from the start focus on what the team do best and that is planning." …"we are able now to synchronize bottom up and top-down planning processes and everything is linked together...

— About You, Head of Merchandise Planning

Flexible, scalable, user-friendly solutions.

Plan, execute and price consumer-centric assortments while meeting sustainability and compliance goals.

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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Centric PXM

Deliver the best product experience with AI-powered PXM including PIM, DAM, content syndication and digital shelf analytics (DSA). Increase sales channels, boost sell through and drive margins.

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