January 22nd, 2026

7mesh Streamlines Product Development and Speeds Materials Management with Centric PLM

“Data points are in one centralized location and Centric PLM’s search functions are incredibly helpful. I’ve saved a significant amount of time.”

— Katie Kirkpatrick,

VP of Product Operations at 7mesh

Canadian outdoor apparel manufacturer automates workflows, enhances compliance tracking and sets a foundation for growth with Centric Software

CAMPBELL, Calif., January 22, 2025 – Centric Software® is pleased to announce the release of a success story about its customer, 7mesh, an outdoor apparel manufacturer headquartered in Squamish, British Columbia. Centric Software delivers innovative, integrated, end-to-end AI-commercialization. Fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail teams can plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, sell and replenish products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Founded in 2013, 7mesh empowers its customers to go further on adventures with its performance apparel. 7mesh products are built to last with innovative patterning, premium fabrics and advanced fabrication methods. Its commitment to quality, performance and sustainability has earned it a growing customer base in Canada and globally, with products available online and through specialty retailers.

Faced with increasing demand and product development complexity, 7mesh turned to Centric PLM™ in 2021 for a structured digital foundation to scale the company. As demand grew for its premium technical gear, so did product development complexity, exposing inefficient workflows, disparate data and disjointed communication that threatened product quality, rapid innovation and the ability to scale. “We were working in spreadsheets to create BOMs, manage materials and for product-related functions,” says Katie Kirkpatrick, VP of Product Operations at 7mesh.

7mesh selected Centric PLM, the leading Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution for emerging brands, for its actionable source of truth, industry-specific innovations, strong reputation and scalability.

Since implementation, 7mesh has reduced time spent on materials management by 50%, created BOMs for more than 75 SKUs in PLM and streamlined workflows for three technical roles, laying a solid digital foundation for growth. “Data points are in one centralized location and Centric PLM’s search functions are incredibly helpful. I’ve saved a significant amount of time,” says Kirkpatrick.

“We’re pleased with the progress 7mesh has made using Centric PLM as their foundation for growth,” says Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software. “It’s inspiring to see their ongoing innovation in performance cycling apparel and their commitment to leading in sustainable operations.”

Read the full story to learn more about how 7mesh streamlined product development and geared up for sustainable growth with Centric PLM.

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7mesh (www.7mesh.com)

7mesh was born out of the realization that while technical gear for backcountry adventurers had taken great leaps forward, the cycling community had been left behind. And as riders, as well as apparel professionals who drive many of the outdoor industry’s breakout technologies, we knew that cyclists deserved better. So, in 2013, we quit our jobs and got to work. Our first collection debuted in 2015. Since then, we’ve been equipping a growing community of global adventure seekers with advanced bike apparel for road and trail riding in all conditions. With the launch of the Guardian Collection, the 7mesh brand has gone full circle and back to our outdoor roots, offering technical apparel for a wide range of outdoor activities.

Our goal is to create apparel that stands the test of time, with innovative shapes, premium fabrics and advanced fabrication methods like bonded seams and Clean Finish tailoring. All so that when you’re ready to go again, so is your gear.

We believe that clothing shouldn’t call attention to itself, which is why we spend so much time refining every line, seam and shape, before testing new ideas on the mountains that overlook our design studio. Then we build upon what worked and improve anything that took us out of the moment, repeating the process until we only see the journey ahead.

Centric Software® (centricsoftware.com)

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.

Centric PLM™,the leading PLM solution for fashion, outdoor, footwear and private label, optimizes product execution from ideation to development, sourcing and manufacture, realizing up to 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.
Centric Planning™ is an innovative, cloud-native, AI solution delivering end-to-end planning capabilities to maximize retail and wholesale business performance, including SKU optimization, resulting in an up to 110% increase in margins.
Centric Pricing & Inventory™ leverages AI to drive margins and boost revenues by up to 18% via price and inventory optimization from pre-season to in-season to season completion.
Centric Market Intelligence™ is an AI-driven platform delivering insights into consumer trends, competitor offers and pricing to boost competitively and get closer to the consumer, driving up to a 12% increase in average initial price point.
Centric Visual Boards™ pivot actionable data in a visual-first orientation to ensure robust, consumer-right assortments and product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time.
Centric PXM™, AI-powered product experience management (PXM) encompasses PIM, DAM, content syndication and digital shelf analytics (DSA) to optimize the product commercialization lifecycle resulting in a transformed brand experience. Increase sales channels, boost sell through and drive margins.

Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, appearing regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.