Why Sustainability Is Reshaping Product Development and What to Do About It Now
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June 17, 2026
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Sustainability today is redefining how products are designed, sourced and brought to market. Regulatory pressure is accelerating, resource constraints are intensifying and expectations for transparency and ethical practices continue to rise across global markets, including North America.
This shift demands more than incremental change. It calls for a new operational foundation where sustainability, compliance and product development operate as one. Yet many brands and retailers still face fragmented data, inconsistent processes and limited visibility across materials, suppliers and product lifecycles. Join us to learn a connected approach where sustainability becomes measurable and embedded into product creation. Gain real-time product data insights, streamlined workflows and integrated systems to drive consistency while reducing manual effort.
Discover how leading brands scale material strategy, traceability and product development with Centric PLM™, connecting design, sourcing and manufacturing to deliver real business impact.
What will be covered?
Track material composition, certifications and compliance across the full product lifecycle
Calculate product impact, including CO₂ contribution, directly from BOM data
Use BOM roll-ups to improve accuracy in material usage, costing and sustainability metrics
Manage materials, fibers and suppliers with full traceability and collaboration
Standardize product data, units of measure and compliance workflows across global teams
Hear from our customers:
We are working backwards into what's likely going to be required, based off what has been discussed and what the French EcoScore requires. At Stio, we’ve identified a number of new fields (think supply chain transparency, sustainability, carbon footprint, care instructions, how to recycle, etc) of data we plan to track and will be configuring these into Centric PLM to be our source of truth at a style level. Ultimately, this data will be available (via QR code scan) to the end consumer.
Senior Materials Manager | Stio
We’re actually able to map out our supply chain and understand in depth how we are taking those initial steps and where we’re close to achieving sustainability. And now, we’re using systems like Centric PLM to allow us to source quicker, create products more rapidly and get them to market quicker. Ultimately for us, that leads to planting more trees.
— tentree, Product Commercialization Director
Centric has an easily configurable system that suits our needs. Seeing how all the information on our raw materials, sustainability and finished products could be in one place and speak to each other was a real ‘aha’ moment.
— Reformation, Product Manager
Sustainability is very important to our brand. We’re looking into implementing some of the sustainability features of Centric PLM to help with tracking. On the 3D side, Centric PLM does have an immediate impact because we can reduce our sampling production by using the 3D software.
— Arc’teryx, Senior Manager of Information Systems, Product & Brand