Fashion and Apparel
Bring Products to Market Faster at Higher Margins in Fashion and Apparel
Boost margins by reducing time to market, cutting costs, optimizing inventories and driving compliance and sustainability.
Drive confident decisions for seasonal and evergreen assortment management with AI-powered market, consumer and product performance insights.
Transform value chains from planning and design to sourcing, pricing, testing, inventory and omnichannel selling for faster development times.
The world’s top fashion brands, retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers bring products to market with Centric Software solutions
See how fashion, apparel, footwear and luxury companies get results
Accelerate cross-team collaboration and creativity that spans the entire organization. Don’t take our word for it, see some of the ROI experienced by customers.
18%
growth in sales
15%
rise in margins
8.5x
improvement in product data accuracy
60%
reduction in time to market
50%
boost in productivity
93%
decrease in spreadsheets
Benefit from strategic, operational and competitive advantages.
40%
improved BOM accuracy
50%
increase in SKU with same team size
33%
growth in number of categories
The fashion and footwear business moves fast. Centric provides solutions.
Consumer demands, market disruptions, new sales channel opportunities and constant internal and external pressures make it increasingly difficult to stay close to customers while protecting margins and competitive positioning.
Centric Software delivers AI-driven solutions for fashion brands, retailers and manufacturers to navigate today’s challenges and seize tomorrow’s opportunities. Every stage of the product and collection lifecycle is optimized, from market intelligence and planning, through PLM, pricing and inventory management, to commercialization and final sale whatever the channel.
Accelerate time to market
Execute fast and improve cross-team collaboration and communication to get the right products to market in the right channel on time and before the competition. Reduce bottlenecks and improve workflows.
Optimize inventory
Understand what your customers are looking for and discover trending products and winning categories. Leverage AI to create pricing and inventory strategies that optimize sell-through, influence demand and control the pricing lifecycle for maximum margins.
Increase productivity
Connect everyone with the data they need using one real-time source of truth for all stages of a product's planning, pricing, inventory and commercialization lifecycles. Eliminate time wasted on spreadsheets and work from up-to-the-minute information to improve processes and reduce errors.
Protect margins
Reduce operating costs, bring products to market before competitors, pinpoint best sellers and worst performers and optimize pricing, promotion, markdown and inventory strategies to sell products as profitably as possible.
Enable sustainability
Bring products to market that consumers want while respecting sustainability, traceability and circularity goals and documentation. Get products and quantities right to reduce impact from the start.
Boost collaboration & innovation
Navigate supply chain complexity and streamline workflows. Collaborate effectively in real time and leverage visualization boards to pivot design, assortment, development and sourcing plans visually to ensure a robust, competitive offer.
TRANSFORM PRODUCT STORYTELLING INTO SALES IMPACT
Unify product data, assets and copy in one AI-driven hub. Deliver consistent, channel-ready content across e-commerce, retail partners and marketplaces to accelerate launches, protect brand integrity and boost conversions.
20,000+ fashion, apparel & footwear companies use Centric to boost productivity, innovation and growth
...the Visual Boards have released time to focus on what’s most important now. That is the most significant gain—the teams can work on what matters most. Also valuable is the improvement of communication between creation and product marketing. Being a visual tool, you’re able to present information in a more comprehensive way.
EILEEN FISHER Adopts Centric Visual Boards and Centric PLM to Improve Efficiency and Simplify Collection Creation
30%
reduction in line planning time
50%
reduction in line sheet generation time
50%
reduction in color process time
I had an ‘aha’ moment when I saw the visualization of the data. I thought, ‘Oh, yes, that’s what we’ve been missing!
Chaser Selects Centric PLM to Escape Spreadsheets Chaos and Gain Product Development Efficiencies
We want to reduce the amount of bad information that’s going to the factory or vice versa… Centric PLM is a single point of entry and a single point of exit. Information is in one spot and one spot only.
50% - 70%
increase in SKUs with same headcount
12%
weekly time saved across the product team
100%
glowing reference checks
Duluth Trading Co. Ditches 80+ Spreadsheets and Drives Product Development Efficiency with Centric PLM
We looked at the costing spreadsheets that each team was sending out to vendors by category. For example, if we had one vendor that had 18 categories, they got 18 spreadsheets, three times a season.
Before COVID, 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.
A Seamless experience from pre-season to in-season to end of season
Discover Centric’s Market-Driven Solutions
Invest in highly-configurable, out-of-the-box and easy-to-use modular solutions to optimize every step of bringing a product to market.
Centric PLM
Reduce costs and time to market with the industry’s leading PLM. Improve collaboration and sustainability while fueling creativity with Centric AI Fashion Inspiration™ to build winning collections.
Centric Planning
Empower accurate and dynamic financial forecasting, merchandising, assortment and in-season planning. Maximize business performance, reduce excess inventory by up to 60% and improve operating margins by 110%.
Centric Pricing & Inventory
Capitalize on product seasonality and boost profitability and forecasting accuracy with AI-enhanced predictive pricing and inventory. Increase sales by up to 18% and gross profit by 4%.
Centric Market Intelligence
Gain insights into competitor assortment and pricing strategies, understand consumer trends and buying behavior and spot market opportunities.
Centric Visual Boards
Boost marketing, merchandising and design collaboration and optimize assortments with highly-visual and data-connected digital boards.
Centric PXM
Deliver the best product experience with AI-powered PXM including PIM, DAM, content syndication and digital shelf analytics (DSA). Increase sales channels, boost sell through and drive margins.
We work with all types of companies, large or small.
Cutting costs, increasing margins and meeting sustainability goals are important no matter the company type or size.
That’s why we work hand-in-hand with customers to understand their complex day-to-day operational and strategic requirements, and continue to iterate, develop and innovate our products to keep up with the changing needs of the fashion industry.
WHOLESALERS
Optimize collaboration to transform product development, sourcing, sell-in and sell-through for each channel, retailer and location.
BRANDS
Fuel business growth and power efficient product development, speed time to market, control costs and execute sustainability programs.
RETAILERS
Develop and create exclusive assortments with branded and non-branded products. Cut time to market and work effectively with supplier networks.
E-COMMERCE
Quickly discover what customers want. Pivot, personalize and optimize pricing to discount less and sell more products.
MANUFACTURERS
Drive productivity to enable faster cycle times, fewer sampling and accurate costing to reduce operational costs.
MARKETPLACES
Centralize product data to streamline marketplace onboarding, ensure accuracy at scale and boost sales across platforms.
Discover how each step of the process benefits from Centric Solutions.
Gain a holistic view of merchandise plans with synchronized bottom-up and top-down planning. Leverage augmented intelligence to accurately forecast demand, set placeholders and targets, and curate customer-centric assortments with Centric Planning.
Combine visually-driven decision-making with sales and forecast data with Centric Visual Boards. Slice & dice merchandise product and planning data and view multiple seasons, collections, deliveries and mixes side-by-side with detailed financial data by SKU for comparative performance analysis.
Speak to one of our experts to discover how we work with 1000s of other organizations just like yours.
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