Centric VIP’s Digital Assortment Board empowers design, merchandising and product development teams with digital tools to combine styles, materials and colors to ’what if’ assortment plans and launch requests for samples. Connect merchandise and design teams to assort products based on live and drive efficiency with informed decision-making.
Information syncs seamlessly giving teams a global view of materials, colors and styles, and allowing them to make decisions and see changes live.
The Digital Assortment Board offers a very natural way of working for designers, merchandisers and product developers, enabling creative brainstorming linked to the business context.
Decide on the color/style/material mix after what-iffing and iterating during collection development meetings or individual work sessions.
Information is shared real time with PLM, Centric 8 or another PLM, and other business systems such as ERP, DAM, PIM, design tools, etc. for a fully accurate vision of product development, costing, inventories, delivery date and other key information and milestones.
Automate changes and save thousands of hours of work looking for product information or making updates to systems.
Once decisions are made, execute them with the push of a button! Tasks are automatically dispatched as are approvals. Everything is tracked and logged. No need to make to-do lists or take notes about the decisions made in meetings.
The mass execution of decisions is automated, drastically boosting accuracy, speed and favoring interdepartmental collaboration and informed decision-making.
#NoMoreFoamCore! Get rid of paper, spreadsheets, to-do lists and telephone tag!
Enable group decision-making, help delegate tasks and ensure everyone adheres to deadlines, no matter how many products are being juggled, to meet operational targets.
Click on the screens below to find out more and stay tuned… we’ve many more to come!
Digital Concept Board
Sandbox with Structure: Intuitive, user-friendly ideas board where merchandising and design teams can visually add products, inspirations and product ideas to create collection structures.
Digital Buying Board
Revolutionize Retail & Wholesale Buys: Define global offers and assortment strategy, then conduct wholesale and retail buying sessions online to develop regional buys by channel/store/zone and more.
Visual Line Planning Board
Streamline Go to Market decision-making with assortment presentations, online and in real time, with dynamic, shareable roll-ups and reports.