Optimize Private Label Assortments for Grocery and Multiple Category Retailers
Accelerate time to market for private label.
Harmonize and optimize SKUs for curated product offerings.
Ensure compliance, visibility and food safety in all markets.
Trusted by the world’s top grocery retailers.
Discover how modern grocery retailers achieve results
Use next-generation product lifecycle management and visual collaboration tools to optimize product offerings and assortments, boost agility and meet market pressures and operational challenges head-on. Benefit from returns on investment like these.
15%
rise
in margins
60%
faster time
to market
30%
improved
productivity
15%
reduction
in COGS
93%
reduction in
spreadsheets
The market-leading product lifecycle management solution for fast-moving consumer goods
Centric PLM and Centric Visual Boards
Streamline products, boost agility, increase innovation and overcome market challenges with Centric Software.
Product Lifecycle Management
Streamline recipe optimization, ingredient management and innovation while minimizing costs. Improve collaboration and maintain compliance with Centric PLM's centralized data and automated processes.
Discover Centric PLMAssortment Optimization Tools
Harmonize global and local grocery selections by fine-tuning product offerings to enhance resilience, ensure timely delivery and implement competitive pricing.
Discover Centric Visual BoardsAward-winning technology
Move from multiple disconnected systems to one digital platform
Discover Centric Software’s robust platform to streamline and optimize projects and workflows for all categories of products, ranging from food, near-food, home/electronics, clothing and more.
Connect cross-functional teams to optimize time to market and boost product innovation. Leverage AI to automate manual tasks, reduce inefficiencies and bring all information into one single integrated digital platform.
Streamline workflows
Manage tasks efficiently with built-in workflows. See the impact of R&D, design, packaging and supply decisions on cost, delivery and more while maximizing efficiency.
Monitor Product Specifications
Synchronize product & packaging data
Automate with ai
Grocery and hypermarket retail has its challenges
From supply chain issues to regulatory compliance and safety recalls, retailing both food and non-food products is complex.
Multiple product Categories
Challenge: Ensuring shelves are stocked with products that are seasonally and regionally in demand with varying development timelines and shelf lives are difficult to coordinate.
Solution: Leverage a centralized digital platform and pivot assortments by theme, region, delivery date, cost, cluster/store type or other variables for robust, optimized product offers.
Sourcing and сo-development
Challenge: Supply chain issues can result in recipe changes, revisions to nutritional labels, price adjustments and stockouts which are challenging to keep up with for 100s of SKUs.
Solution: Streamline sourcing whether near-shore and offshore, to ensure customers are offered safe and competitive products. Drive a multi-threaded buying strategy with just a few clicks.
Vendor Collaboration
Challenge: Poor vendor relationship management and communication impacts the speed, accuracy and efficiency of private label product development.
Solution: Connect vendors to a powerful PLM platform to provide accurate specifications related to products, ingredients and packaging.
Explore our innovative visual assortment management board
Transition away from spreadsheets, isolated systems and unreliable data when overseeing the commercialization process of grocery products.
Enable teams to streamline timelines and visually integrate systems and personnel to efficiently manage private label products in harmony with packaged goods, CPG and national brand offerings.
Discover how every team benefits with Centric Software
Product Management
Category Manager
Procurement
Product Developer
Quality
Packaging and Artwork
Master data management
Combine both the product development and launch phases in one unified solution, from product portfolio management and private label development to assortment planning and collaborations with individual teams. Centric Software’s solutions empower teams to work in a user-friendly, visually-based digital ecosystem for a complete, end-to-end solution.
Work seamlessly across internal departments while staying up-to-date and organized with external vendors. Eliminate the inefficiencies of outdated spreadsheets, making the process —from establishing new private label products to renegotiating contracts—clear, accurate, and accessible.
Break down data silos and streamline workflows, facilitating real-time collaboration between your team and outside partners such as suppliers and design agencies. Centralized data ensures critical information is always at your fingertips, speeding up decisions, improving product launches and driving innovation in private label production.
Drive efficiency and profitability by optimizing product selection, pricing, and inventory management with a visually-based end-to-end solution. Easily analyze market trends and customer preferences, all in one dynamic space, to make data-driven decisions that maximize sales and enhance product offerings. With access to real-time product data and seamless collaboration across teams and external vendors, supplier communication becomes more efficient, ensuring the right products get to the shelves at the right time.
Stay ahead of seasonal trends, identify new product opportunities and reduce the risk of slow-moving inventory. Centric Software provides the tools to visualize the full product lifecycle, from selection to shelf, while minimizing unpopular choices and maximizing profitability. Efficiently manage multiple region and localization variables to make informed decisions that align with customer expectations and market demands.
Bring buying and sourcing stakeholders together onto a single, visually-based, end-to-end platform that provides real-time updates for the numerous aspects of the supply chain. Foster close collaboration with suppliers to find cost-effective solutions while meeting strict quality standards and delivery schedules. Centric Software’s advanced tools empower teams to run “what-if” scenarios to better assess sourcing decisions and optimize product availability.
Gain full control over supplier relationships – track performance, negotiate better terms and secure quality products. Managing vendors becomes seamless with centralized communication that enables for efficient contract management, transparent pricing and advanced forecasting, reducing inventory missteps while ensuring smooth supply chain operations. With a centralized data hub, procurement teams can secure better deals, respond quicker to market fluctuations and make better decisions based on more accurate insights.
Accelerate innovation and drive organic growth. Centric Software’s end-to-end solution empowers teams to seamlessly manage new product development in one visually-driven, user-friendly space. From ideation to launch, product developers can efficiently manage formulations, collaborate with vendors, and refine private label products to meet brand standards. With real-time data transparency, product-related details are tracked and easily accessible, ensuring accuracy throughout the process.
Bring together internal teams and external partners—R&D, procurement, suppliers and more—into one cohesive workspace. Test concepts, create “what-if” AI-powered costing scenarios, optimize assortments, and modify existing formulations. Manage from ingredients to labeling in one space, speeding time to market and increasing successful product introductions. Expand into new markets, innovate faster, and stay ahead of trends with seamless collaboration across teams.
Ensure total visibility into product-related data to track compliance and maintain high standards across the product life cycle. Centric Software’s end-to-end solution enables Quality teams to monitor compliance with ease, manage third-party certifications, and swiftly respond to regulatory changes or safety issues. Quickly identify affected products in the event of ingredient recalls and make confident, data-driven decisions to uphold safety and quality.
With built-in workflows and audit modules, Centric Software streamlines quality audits, vendor certifications and compliance checks. The platform integrates with USDA, SR Legacy, and CIQUAL databases, ensuring adherence to regional and regulatory standards. Packaging engineers and label designers can leverage artwork templates for product specifications, allowing quality teams to review and adjust, minimizing the risk of labeling errors and preventing potentially costly recalls.
Connect creative teams into one centralized hub for more effective packaging and design management.. Directly connect pertinent product information with comprehensive packaging briefs that ensure accuracy and efficiency to launch. Maintain compliance and prevent costly recalls with teams and departments on the same platform.
Link with outside design agencies to internal teams using Centric Software’s artwork proofing tools that include popular 2D and 3D packaging tool integrations. Add annotations, check for regulatory and brand compliance and keep departments on the same page, from initial ideation until final approval.
One centralized platform ensures smooth collaboration, even through multiple iterations and varying regional requirements. Free up teams for greater creativity with an end-to-end solution that makes managing packaging projects efficient, compliant and scalable.
Centralize product data in one comprehensive solution to ensure it is up-to-date and accurate. Seamlessly push and pull information from various systems, whether it’s supply chain software, ERP systems, or manufacturing execution systems. Centric Software’s end-to-end platform integrates everything in real-time.
Private label vendors and their teams—spanning R&D, procurement, and production—are fully included, ensuring the latest data is always accessible for everyone involved.
Connect internal departments with external vendor teams to enhance collaboration and streamline data management and private label production across the entire product lifecycle, for a simplified approach to managing and tracking the various aspects of product production.