01.
Product Ideation
- Create, iterate and test faster across every team with AI-assisted design.
- Respond to footwear trends and market realities quickly with robust and aligned concepts.
Footwear
Streamline Design, Development and Omnichannel Go to Market for Higher Margins in Footwear
Cut product development timelines and manage complex bills of materials with ease throughout entire ranges.
Reduce sample rounds and bottlenecks from design to merchandising to bring products to market faster.
Break down silos, simplify reporting, unify product data and respond instantly to trends with a single source of truth from concept to retail.
The world’s top footwear brands, retailers and manufacturers bring products to market and boost the bottom line with Centric Software.
Manage complexity and stay ahead of the competition with AI-driven solutions for footwear brands and retailers
Improve sell-through, time to market and quality for fashion, athletic, outdoor and work footwear companies of any size. Even in high-volume, multi-season collections. Use AI-powered PLM, planning, pricing, market intelligence and PXM to anticipate demand, run what-if scenario planning and optimize assortments, pricing, inventory and multichannel launches. Meet sustainability and compliance with real-time, audit-ready sourcing data across all materials, components, vendors and BOMs.
60%
Faster time to market
30%
Decrease in inventory
60%
Less discounting
18%
Increase in revenue
Enhance and streamline workflows throughout the footwear lifecycle
02.
Centric Visual Boards
- Visualize and align seasonal collections and SKU mixes.
- Quickly test and iterate different components, technical materials and colorways.
03.
BOM & specification
- Manage sizing and materials across entire assortments.
- Centrally control component management—for all uppers, linings, adhesives and soles.
04.
Sourcing
- Collaborate with vendors along entire supply chains to ensure transparency, cost effectiveness and sustainability.
- De-risk footwear complexity with tighter control and greater flexibility.
05.
Negotiation
- Negotiate better supplier deals with full visibility of supply chains, lead times and cost competitiveness.
- Protect margin without sacrificing material selection or product quality.
06.
Sampling
- Virtualize sampling to reduce costs, maintain version control and make better decisions more quickly.
- Minimize prototype requirements without sacrificing quality or cycle time efficiency.
07.
Quality Control
- Reduce rounds and costs for fit and durability testing across all size and width variants.
- Protect margin with smoother workflows on amendments.
08.
Certification and compliance
- Integrate testing processes with certifications and memberships like Higg Index, B Corp, bluesign®, GOTS and LWG.
- 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 across fit, sizing and materials to reduce returns and protect margins.
Leading footwear brands and retailers see real results with Centric Software
ON partners with Centric Software to centralize data, enhance collaboration and ignite growth
Our users include product managers, designers, developers, color specialists, as well as team members in materials, costing, sourcing, sustainability and customs. By the end of 2024, we expect to have 280 team members working in PLM including suppliers.
— Steve Santoro
Product Systems Lead at On
We can see everyone else’s work in a single click. That didn’t happen before.
— Ester Gómez
Designer
Centric PLM is the engine behind our digital transformation, connecting our teams, systems and strategy in one platform.
— Mr. Li
IT Director of Product Development and Procurement Supply
It's been transformative for the teams. It takes hard work to do this and can be painful, but once you get to the other side, the fact that you can eliminate the 14 different places that everybody's having to update, and have one central source of truth that can also then feed your other systems, is amazing.
— Heather Howard
COO at Rothy's
There is now an internal rule: if it isn’t in Centric, it doesn’t count!
— Aaron Hellickson
Product Development Technology Manager at KEEN
Frequently asked questions
Footwear Product Development
PLM software makes every part of the product lifecycle simpler to manage, from concept to replenishment. In footwear, PLM software accelerates product development by streamlining design, sourcing, sampling and durability and wear testing to reduce material use and waste even for complex products with highly specialized components across soles, linings, uppers, adhesives and trims—including over assortments with hundreds of different types and styles of shoes. 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 Software solutions work together to make developing, launching, merchandising and creating digital experiences seamless for footwear 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 footwear trend forecasting and improve planning around demand peaks.
Centric’s products are designed with complex development cycles and specific material and sourcing needs in mind, making them perfect for footwear BOM management. Centric PLM for footwear provides a single source of truth for all aspects of research and development from concepts to materials management, virtual sampling and supply chain management. Centric Visual Boards™ further support collaboration across marketing, merchandising and design to keep all teams working together with access to the same information in order to reduce cycle times and optimize every stage of the process, no matter how complex or specialized individual products, assortments or market needs.
Yes. Centric PLM provides a platform for fully digital product design—including 3D and virtual sampling which integrates seamlessly with 3D printing setups and AI-assisted insight into durability and performance of design and material components. This reduces the need for physical samples, accelerates cycle times and radically reduces waste and timelines across prototyping, last history management, sizing and testing.
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