September 23rd, 2024

Acne Studios Supports Growth Ambitions with Centric Planning

A person poses confidently in an oversized denim jacket from Acne Studios and wide-leg jeans against a misty gradient background. The individual holds a stylish handbag, with one hand casually placed in a jacket pocket. The overall mood is chic and modern, embodying growth ambitions in fashion.

Luxury fashion brand to boost efficiency in assortment planning, merchandising and buying

CAMPBELL, Calif., September 24 ,2024 – Centric Software^® is pleased to announce that Acne Studios, the Swedish fashion house, has selected Centric Planning™ to support its global activity. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and related goods like cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Acne Studios is a Stockholm-based avant-garde luxury fashion house. Founded in 1996, the company has experienced sustained growth, with over 80 stores worldwide and a thriving e-commerce business operating in regions including the US, UK, Europe, China and APAC countries.

A Centric PLM™ customer since 2017, Acne Studios sought a planning solution to improve speed and enhance creativity in decision-making processes. Entering a new phase of development, with clear business goals centered around localizing its merchandising strategy while driving expansion, the brand selected Centric Planning to support its innovative growth initiatives.

The implementation of Centric’s industry-leading merchandise financial and assortment planning solution will allow Acne Studios to optimize its targeted floor sets and ranges for the customer demographic of each store, increasing sell-through and addressing diverse customer needs. Furthermore, the seamless integration between Centric Planning and Centric PLM, delivering a flow of product data and product images from concept to channel, will streamline internal Acne Studios buying and planning processes, providing a uniquely visual and data-driven perspective to collections.

“We are pleased that Acne Studios continues to place their trust in Centric,” says Fabrice Canonge, President of Centric Software. “Acne Studios is at an exciting stage of expansion where they are making critical decisions about which tools will drive their growth strategy. We are thrilled to work with the Acne Studios team as they make their merchandise and assortment planning vision into a reality.”

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ACNE Studios (www.acnestudios.com)

Acne Studios is a Stockholm-based fashion house with a multidisciplinary approach. Through founder and Creative Director Jonny Johansson’s interest in photography, art, architecture and contemporary culture, an alternative path has been found, turning Acne Studios into a well-respected creator of ready-to-wear, magazines, furniture, books and exhibitions.

The collections are defined by Jonny Johansson’s signature juxtaposing design and attention to detail, with an emphasis on tailoring and an eclectic use of materials and custom-developed fabrics. The collections cover men’s and women’s ready-to-wear, accessories and denim.

Centric Software® (www.centricsoftware.com)

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-replenishment platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and related goods like cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, 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 giving insights into consumer trends, competitor offers and pricing to boost competitively and get closer to the consumer, with an up to 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 Software’s market-driven, best-of-breed 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.