01.
Product Ideation
- Create, iterate and test faster across every team with AI-assisted design.
- Respond to market, regulatory and competitor movements quickly with robust and aligned concepts.
Consumer Electronics
Centralize Product Development and Accelerate Time to Market in Consumer Electronics
Go to market fast with one AI-powered platform for collaborative design, sourcing, testing, portfolio planning and commercialization.
Leverage integrated AI insights to reduce bottlenecks across design, quality control, supply chain management, manufacturing and merchandising.
Break down silos to boost productivity and margins, improve visibility and end confusion with a truly end-to-end workflow and automated approval flows.
The world’s top consumer electronics brands, retailers and manufacturers bring products to market and boost the bottom line with Centric Software®.
Manage complexity and collaboration simply with internal and external stakeholders
Unite teams for faster design and development cycles with full control of quality control and compliance. Simplify sourcing, costing and supply chain management for clear visibility of margins, smarter pricing in every market and transparent sustainability. Rationalize portfolios and assortments to bring down inventory, reduce discounting and stay competitive.
60%
Faster time to market
30%
Decrease in inventory
60%
Less discounting
18%
Increase in revenue
Concept, design, plan, price, launch, sell and replenish
Leverage Centric Software’s connected, AI-powered platform to streamline consumer electronics workflows for maximized profits, optimal go to market strategy and cohesive product experiences. Balance innovation with existing portfolio management and commercialization approaches that flex to fit a rapidly evolving global landscape.
02.
Centric Visual Boards
- Visualize, align and rationalize different portfolios and SKU mixes.
- Quickly test and iterate different components, materials and designs.
03.
BOM & specification
- Manage sourcing and supply chains for every product and component in a single platform.
- Centrally control component management—for cost, compliance, sustainability and quality.
04.
Sourcing
- Collaborate with vendors along entire supply chains to ensure transparency, cost effectiveness and sustainability.
- De-risk consumer electronics complexity with tighter control, more resilient supply chains and greater flexibility.
05.
Negotiation
- Source quotes and lock in better supplier deals with full visibility of supply chains, lead times and cost competitiveness through an intuitive supplier portal.
- Protect margin without sacrificing product quality, design, compliance or material selection with early cost visibility.
06.
Sampling
- Virtualize sampling to reduce costs, maintain version control and conformity, and make better decisions more quickly.
- Minimize prototype requirements without sacrificing quality or cycle time efficiency.
07.
Quality Control
- Reduce rounds and costs for testing across all product ranges and types.
- Protect margin with smoother workflows on amendments with structured, automated engineering change management (ECM) and QMS workflows.
08.
Certification and compliance
- Integrate testing processes with certifications and memberships.
- Simplify compliance processes for all markets and regulatory frameworks with transparent, auditable records of material usage and sourcing.
09.
Launch and merchandising
- Go to market with aligned and accurate omnichannel offerings.
- Create and syndicate content rapidly for marketplaces, retail, DTC and digital channels.
- Guarantee accurate attribute and product information to reduce returns and protect margins.
Leading consumer electronics brands, retailers and manufacturers see real results with Centric Software
The management of product information was fragmented and relied on isolated components, including an outdated PIM system that was no longer supported and countless spreadsheets. It was clear that a change needed to take place.
— William McLaughlin
Digital Content Operations Manager
Promotion setup time dropped from 45 minutes to just 10 minutes. ... content syndication with multi-channel feed management was able to link to Salesforce Commerce Cloud. The distribution of our products went from 100 SKUs on one platform to 15,000 SKUs across 7 platforms over the course of two years. Since then, we’ve opened up our catalog to all 24,000 SKUs on Amazon and those sales went from a couple thousand a day, to tens of thousands of dollars daily.
— Rui Kojima
Senior Director of e-Commerce at aetrex Inc.
Frequently asked questions
Product Engineering
PLM software makes every part of the product lifecycle simpler to manage, from concept to replenishment. In consumer electronics, PLM software accelerates product development by streamlining design, sourcing, sampling and quality and compliance testing to reduce material use and waste even for complex products with highly specialized designs and component needs—including over assortments with thousands of different SKUs. PLM software cuts costs and timelines across prototyping, sourcing and supply chain management, accelerates time to market and boosts margins. These efficiencies become even greater through centralizing and digitizing approvals and communications workflows and play a vital role in managing sustainability.
Centric’s products are designed with complex development cycles and specific material and sourcing needs in mind, making them perfect for consumer electronics BOM development, sourcing and portfolio management. Centric PLM for consumer electronics provides a single source of truth for all aspects of research and development from concepts to materials management, virtual sampling and supply chain management—and integrates seamlessly with more rigid engineering-specific PLM and PDM systems. Centric Visual Boards™ further support collaboration across marketing, merchandising and design to keep all teams working together with access to the same information to reduce cycle times and optimize every stage of the process, no matter how complex or specialized individual products, assortments or market needs.
Centric Software solutions work together to make developing, launching, merchandising and creating digital experiences seamless for consumer electronics brands and retailers. PLM software provides the basis for integrated design and sustainable, cost-effective sourcing. Centric Planning, Centric Pricing & Inventory and Centric Market Intelligence provide a complete 360° view of all markets and competitor insights to simplify consumer electronics market forecasting and improve planning around demand peaks.
Yes. PLM processes for any engineering discipline—including consumer electronics—demands rigid adherence to QMS and ECM principles. Centric’s solutions incorporate them seamlessly into an integrated PLM workflow.
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