Centric Software: Streamlining Design to Delivery of Fashion and Consumer Goods

Thousands of global brands of all sizes leverage Centric Software's best-of-breed product lifecycle management (PLM) solution and its advanced Adobe connector to bring their fashion and apparel designs to life and deliver products consumers will buy.

A leader in PLM solutions, Centric Software provides a comprehensive product concept to replenishment solution experience for a wide range of consumer goods, including fashion, outdoor, luxury, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics. The solution enables these businesses to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish their products. Centric Software is continually deepening its Adobe integration, leveraging market-driven innovations to create a seamless design-to-market workflow.

Thanks to this powerful synergy, the world's most renowned fashion and consumer goods brands are able to optimize product execution from ideation to development, accelerate time to market, reduce costs and boost creativity.

Centric's cloud-based fashion PLM solution doesn't just manage product lifecycles—it turbocharges them. Through deep integration with Adobe's design suite, the platform seamlessly connects to critical business systems like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Product Information Management (PIM), e-commerce platforms and other enterprise systems. This creates a single, unified product data source, eliminating data silos and streamlining the path from concept to customer.

Designers can work in Adobe while seamlessly accessing material, color, trims and other libraries in Centric PLM, quickly create templates and update their Bills of Materials (BOM) in PLM, eliminating many repetitive tasks. The integration has been praised by designers for its easy interface, ease of use, the fact that it can generate reports. All this makes the Centric PLM Adobe Connector a one-stop shop.

While cost-effective, easy-to-use alternatives exist, they often fall short of delivering the comprehensive functionality and platform adaptability brands demand. This gap includes advanced tools like the innovative Firefly AI for ethical image generation. Brands seek technology that not only performs seamlessly across multiple operating systems, including Windows, Android and macOS, but integrates effortlessly to optimize workflows—a requirement that Centric expertly addresses.

“The fashion and textile industries were once slow to embrace technology, but that’s changing rapidly. Complex supply chains, competitive pressures and sustainability initiatives are fueling demand for innovative solutions like Centric Software’s. Through deep integration with solutions like Adobe Illustrator, Centric empowers designers to streamline the entire product lifecycle—a testament to the digital revolution transforming our industry. It’s about breaking limits and maximizing creative potential,” says Ron Watson, Executive Vice President of Products & Chief Security Officer of Centric Software.