Drive Innovation and Agility to Get Closer to Consumers with Centric PLM®

Develop new or refresh products, expand into more categories and control Costs of Goods Sold (COGS) to grow product margins.

Centralize all product-related data to free teams from admin tasks like data entry to reduce time wasted and costly errors and mistakes.

Streamline supplier co-development, increase visibility and connect internal and external teams to complex, iterative processes.

Keep up with consumer demands. Centralize merchandise development and product portfolio plans to identify new products for development, bestselling products for carry-over and products to reposition.

Connect R&D and developers directly to merchandising teams and suppliers to improve ideation and collaboration.

Accelerate innovation with built-in product brief templates, ingredient libraries and connections with external formulation databases.

Gain full visibility into complex product portfolios including both formulated cosmetics and personal care products and non-formulated goods to plan the right product mix for location and channel.

Make proactive, informed decisions to identify opportunities for new product development, carry-over, updates, refreshes and discontinuations.

Expand into new markets, run ‘what if’ cost scenarios and improve sell through/adoption rates.

Connect suppliers directly to Centric PLM through the supplier portal and create product briefs with detailed product specifications and requests for information such as buying price, minimum order quantities and lead time.

Manage supplier collaboration and product information including formulation, composition, ingredients, label claims, costs, packaging, quality control and more on a single platform.

Handle thousands of supplier proposals by issuing RFPs en masse and centralizing responses in one place. Track ingredients, costs and other performance targets against multiple formulation and sourcing alternatives

Quickly and easily generate primary/secondary packaging, artwork and Point of Purchase (POP) briefs from templates including images, ingredients, label claims and more. Send to external agencies.

Ensure label accuracy with product specifications directly connected to label templates that automatically update as products develop and formulations evolve.

Connect 2D and 3D packaging engineers directly to PLM libraries while working in their native software environments.

Centralize all product-related information, documents and history of stage-gate decisions for easier tracking, quality assessments and traceability.

React quickly to regulatory changes by tracking ingredients connected to each product. Link and aggregate compliance requirements by production region, supplier, formulation and more.

Facilitate assessments with audit templates, mobile apps and alert settings.