January 23rd, 2023

Teway Food Builds Intelligent R&D with Centric PLM

Seasonings manufacturer collaborates with Centric Software to improve innovation, competitiveness and R&D efficiency

CAMPBELL, Calif., January 24, 2023 – Sichuan Teway Food Group Co., Ltd. (Teway Food), a leading Sichuan seasonings manufacturer, has selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Centric Software® provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Established in 2008, Teway Food focuses on the R&D, production and sale of various seasoning products. Teway Food sells across China and exports to Britain, Canada, Australia and more. The company also leverages its R&D competitive advantages to provide domestic catering customers with customized seasonings.

Teway Food has expanded its investment in independent R&D in recent years, with more than 100 employees actively engaged in the research and application of mechanization, automation and intelligent technology to produce compound seasonings. Teway Food has adopted Centric PLM® to improve R&D efficiency, enhance product innovation and drive business development.

Ms. Fu Xiaolan, Director of Teway Food Information Center and Purchasing Center, says, “We invest a lot in R&D and regard the R&D team as one of our most valuable assets. With its deep market insights and practical experience in the consumer goods industry as well as a highly flexible system, Centric is in line with our demands for R&D digital management and is especially suitable for our industry.”

Centric Software will share its rich industry experience with Teway Food to achieve their PLM project goals: to drive R&D based on consumer demand, efficiently complete original product iteration and new product innovation, create more high-quality products and increase profitability.

Mr. Hu Tao, Director of Teway Food Innovation and Research Center and Food Safety Center, adds, “Centric PLM will become an inseparable part of our daily work in the future. It is also a rare opportunity to systematically understand how an innovation management system is set up.”

Ms. Fu Xiaolan concludes, “I believe we will deepen cooperation with Centric over the next few years. Our common goal is to create a benchmark case for PLM in the Sichuan seasoning industry and spearhead its digital transformation.”

“We are honored to work with Teway Food, an enterprise that has been involved in innovating industry standards for Sichuan seasonings,” says Chris Groves, President and CEO of Centric Software. “We look forward to a collaboration that will establish additional PLM best practices, paving the way for further innovation and digital transformation at Teway Food.”

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Teway Food (https://www.teway.cn/)

With “Creating a Better Life with Delicacy” as its mission, Sichuan Teway Food Group Co., Ltd. (“Teway Food”) has been focusing on the R&D, production, and sales of compound seasoning since its establishment in 2008. Today, the company has developed into a large-scale compound seasoning production enterprise focusing on seasonings for hot pot and Chinese dishes. In 2019, Teway Food was successfully listed on the A-share market and was recognized as the 89th most valuable private brands by Hurun.

Products of the three major brands under Teway Food, “Haorenjia”, “Dahongpao”, and “Tianche”, are being sold all over China, and have been exported to the US, Britain, Canada, Australia, etc. At the same time, the company is leveraging its R&D competitive advantages to provide domestic chain catering enterprises with customized seasonings that meet the requirements of their customers in terms of product standardization, food safety, and taste consistency.

Centric Software® (www.centricsoftware.com) 

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides a product concept to launch platform for consumer goods such as fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor, consumer electronics, cosmetics & personal care and food & beverage. Centric Software’s flagship Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM®, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric Visual Boards™ offer highly visual, touch-screen experiences for collaboration and decision-making. Centric Planning™ is an innovative, cloud-native, augmented-intelligence solution delivering end-to-end retail planning to maximize retail and wholesale business performance.  Centric Market Intelligence™, powered by StyleSage™, is an AI-driven market insight platform for data-informed decision-making on pricing and product assortments to maximize revenue and margins. Among many other market-driven innovations, Centric Software is widely known for its connectivity to dozens of other enterprise systems, including ERP, DAM, PIM, e-com and more, in addition to creative tools such as Adobe® Illustrator, a host of 3D CAD connectors and sustainability tools, such as HIGG. Centric Software has the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry.

Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and PLM solutions. 

Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, including being named by Red Herring to its Top 100 Global list several times. Centric Software also received five excellence awards from Frost & Sullivan over the past decade. 

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