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CENTRIC PLANNING

A transformational end-to-end retail planning platform.

Improve sell-through, maximize profitability and optimize
the omnichannel experience with AI-driven planning.

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Discover next-generation retail planning.

Our high-performance retail planning solution empowers planners, merchandisers and stock allocators to reduce markdowns and increase stock availability through advanced analytics and accurate AI-driven forecasting.

Built for omnichannel

Centric Planning is designed to handle the data volumes and process complexity that comes with today’s omnichannel requirements.

Collaborative

Synchronize planning, merchandising and product execution teams on one platform to make effective, collaborative decisions driven by real-time data and AI input.

Futureproof

Cloud-native, configurable solution with a robust roadmap, scalable IT architecture and low TCO. High user adoption rate prevents a return to siloed and fragmented ways of working.

Best-of-breed

Powerful processing enables faster reporting and analysis. Centric Planning is designed to meet the needs of retailers and integrates easily with other retail software.

“...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 at Guess

Discover our modules to get the right products to the right channel at the right time.

Merchandise
Financial Planning

Assortment Strategy
& Optimization

Assortment
Planning & Buying

Store Allocation &
Replenishment

Supply
Planning

B2B Demand
Planning

Visual Assortment

Board for Planning

Omnichannel Showroom
Board for Planning

Create your merchandise plan early and fast.

Distill enormous amounts of data into clear and accurate patterns and forecasts.
Embed advanced analytics at peak points in the planning process to improve decision-making.

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Save time with high-performance omnichannel assortment planning.

Process and reconcile vast amounts of data across multiple stores, partners and channels to derive accurate insights and quickly define complex assortments.

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Meet consumer demand and reduce discounting.

Confidently build assortments with products consumers really want. Accurately balance the predicted desirability of products with the need to avoid overstocking and maximize profitability.

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Minimize store stock holding to optimize profitability.

Forecast required store stock levels for upcoming weeks to keep levels low and reduce holding costs without compromising future sales.

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Reduce costs with supplier cost modelling and stock level visibility.

Accurately forecast near-future sales and gain supply chain insights to avoid under- and overstocking. Achieve a balance between low inventory and adequate replenishment.

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Meet customer demand across B2B and B2C channels.

Efficiently predict stock requirements, drive better commercial decisions with detailed analysis and avoid holding high levels of inventory to maximize profitability.

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Drive omnichannel success with intelligent visual planning​

Seamlessly connect product and planning data with image libraries in a single visual, interactive application. ​

Visually curate high-performing assortments by channel, region, door, drop with financial and forecast modelling for maximum SKU performance.​

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Optimize omnichannel sales performance

Maximize sales opportunities with a fully digitalized experience. Reach more clients with less resource at less cost.

Enable faster, more accurate orders with a live visual interactive digital showroom. Drive brand strategy and maximize revenue across every channel.​

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Discover the most powerful retail planning solution.

Flexible, highly configurable and proven ease of adoption.

Slice and dice in any direction, through multiple layers of data for easily customizable views and instant analyses​.

Advanced Analytics, AI and ML capabilities.

Enhance decision making throughout the planning process through the delivery of insightful analyses, impactful indicators and accurate forecasting.​

Robust performance and scalable.

Faster reporting and quicker time to analyses. Easily scale up to meet growing business requirements.​

12,800+ Brands Trust Centric Software

Built hand-in-hand with fast-moving consumer goods and fashion brands and retailers to address real industry needs

A flexible and scalable digital foundation for growth

Explore Centric’s AI market-driven solutions

Optimize each step of bringing a product to market, whether at the pre-season, in-season or end-of-season cycle. Streamline processes, reduce costs, maximize profitability and drive sustainability.

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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Merchandise Financial Planning

Accurate forecasting

Analyze historical data and utilize AI capabilities to guide decision-making related to areas to buy, develop or invest in. Rely on accurate data and sophisticated analytics to avoid future overbuying or bestseller shortfalls.

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Merchandise Financial Planning

Scenario-based stock optimization

Generate expected-demand predictions based on realistic what-if scenarios. Optimize inventory levels across locations, stores and channels, all within the constraints of a merchandise financial plan.

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Merchandise Financial Planning

Alignment with targets

Enable top-down and bottom-up planning to ensure alignment at the executive level so planners can cascade agreed financial targets into plans. Reduce manual tasks and spreadsheet chaos to create plans effectively in the face of complexity.

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Assortment Strategy & Optimization

Assortment definition

Accurately define the width and depth of the assortment to set the foundation for better planning. Simplify clustering with powerful prescriptive AI and handle the challenge of store segmentation and classification​.

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Assortment Strategy & Optimization

Accurate insights

Understand how many options you need, and the quantity needed per option. Employ bottom-up and top-down analysis for better insights into customer buying patterns.

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Assortment Strategy & Optimization

Data management

Powerful number-crunching and AI capabilities employ real-time data from multiple sources to deliver actionable information. Manage and utilize enormously complex datasets across multiple languages and currencies.

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assortment and buying

Assortment optimization

Keep up with changing consumer needs with accurate, timely data and AI-driven predictions. Easily develop assortment plans based on segmentation, localization and store planning.

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assortment and buying

Financial alignment

Minimize stock holding costs and improve inventory turnover through actionable insights and buy plans. Split your buy plan by phase for transparency and accuracy.

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assortment and buying

Actionable analysis

Advanced analytics enables better insights into NOS (Never Out of Stock) products by reviewing and optimizing the assortment plan year on year. Eliminate guesswork that can lead to overproduction and heavy discounting.

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store allocation and replenishment

Optimized inventory planning

Reduce out-of-stock and overstock to ensure inventory is optimally distributed where there is the highest probability to sell it at full price, minimizing markdowns and stock holding costs.

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Supply Planning

Enhanced visibility

Gain accurate and up-to-date visibility into stock levels to know when to order. Forecast stock requirements for seasonal and local events to maximize selling opportunities.

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Supply Planning

Optimize vendor
replenishment

Optimize in-season distribution and evaluate your replenishment needs faster, more accurately and more cost-effectively.
Automate routine replenishment and free teams up to spend more time on analyses and planning.
Schedule concise orders closer to the time of requirement.

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Supply Planning

Stock level optimization

Understocking means customer frustration and missed selling opportunities. Overstocking means failed sell-through, overflowing inventory and increased markdowns. Avoid both with balanced replenishment and optimized stock levels.

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B2B Demand Planning

Statistical forecasting

Embed statistical forecasting models for better predictive analysis. Effectively compare sell-in versus sell-out to enhance decision-making and reduce overstocking.

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B2B Demand Planning

Customer service

Efficiently manage different types of customer accounts (key versus normal). Enhance collaboration with your sales department and improve service levels while keeping costs under control.

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B2B Demand Planning

Pricing management

Develop a pricing strategy on cost, wholesale price and suggested retail price that maintains healthy product margins. Organize buying sessions and efficiently split plans into different phases.

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Visual Assortment Board for Planning

Develop line plans that align with financial objectives​

Instantly model financials alongside SKU visuals for smarter decision-making.

Collaboratively develop assortment plans, update placeholders, allocate products and enter forecasts in a single digital platform.​

Visual Assortment Board for Planning

Fast, intuitive, decision making 
in real-time​

​Effortlessly drag and drop products in and out of assortments to model product combinations and balance assortments.

Analyze revenue and margins with real-time bi-directional data flow to existing business systems and make critical decisions 10x faster.​

Visual Assortment Board for Planning

End-to-End Digitalization​

Empower teams to collaborate from anywhere, anytime.

Cut travel by up to 50% and get closer to sustainability goals. Reduce time spent in-person developing and reviewing line and assortment plans by up to 90%.​

Eliminate costly manual errors and streamline decision making with a universal, transformational platform.​

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Omnichannel Showroom Board for Planning

Dynamic digital selling experience​

Speed time to order commitment amongst remote teams.

Build client-centric offers on the fly using real-time product, financial and visual data including 3D, in a single intuitive UI. ​

Eliminate unreliable paper trails and capture 100% of orders and changes digitally and in real-time.​

Omnichannel Showroom Board for Planning

Streamline execution 
& boost margins

Reduce travel, sales resources, costs and overheads by up to 80% and get closer to sustainability targets.​

Speed buy session setup by 70% and reach more clients in less time. ​

Streamline orders to production and supply teams with real-time push to existing business systems.​

Omnichannel Showroom Board for Planning

Gain a competitive advantage​

Mitigate sales risks, pivot quickly on top-performers, drive targeted products across channels and increase revenue opportunities.

Tailor recommended assortments visually by channel, vendor or customer for maximum sales commitment and greater control over brand strategy.​

Forecast raw material demands accurately for earlier vendor commitment.​