December 1st, 2023

Centric PLM for Food & Beverage and Grocery Has Strong Market Adoption

Centric PLM for Food Producers, Brands and Retailers Proving Key to Strategic Transformation

CAMPBELL, Calif., December 4, 2023 – Centric Software® is pleased to announce that Centric PLM™ for Food & Beverage and Grocery is experiencing strong market adoption and value expansion. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, price, sell and replenish products such as multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Centric’s seamless concept-to-replenishment solution provides compelling ROI to the food and multi-category retail industry, such as grocery, by reducing time to market, optimizing costs and also improving compliance, traceability and sustainability. Teams including R&D, marketing, quality, regulatory affairs, nutrition, quality, procurement, packaging, finance, assortment planning and more leverage Centric solutions to boost product innovation, speed time to market and get closer to consumers.

Since PLM market leader Centric Software entered this vertical about 3 years ago, hundreds of market-driven enhancements, innovations and best practices have been incorporated into Centric PLM and Centric Visual Boards™.

Today, over 50 food, beverage, cosmetics and personal care producers, brands and retailers—from multi-billion-dollar organizations to vegan food startups—have selected Centric solutions to strengthen their market position and streamline commercialization. Ferrero, Land O’ Lakes, ALDI SOUTH, Carrefour, SNS, Aviko, Ajinomoto, SPC, Guangzhou Restaurant and Great Kitchens are just some of the names that have placed their trust in Centric Software.

Centric has also developed partnerships and integrations with platforms used by the industry such as Adobe for packaging and artwork approvals; 80+ ERPs; Genesis Food R&D program; general business programs like Teams, Slack, Microsoft Office to boost communication and collaboration; USDA Food Data Central which gives access to 300,000 foods; integrations to GDSN and more. One of the latest partnerships is with FoodChain ID, seamlessly connecting users to 220 food and chemical regulatory libraries and databases from all over the world.

Transforming the go-to-market process for multi-category retail, Centric Visual Boards acts as a visual pivot table that pulls information from multiple business systems and renders data actionable. Retailers and brands leverage Centric Visual Boards for category range management to drive international collaboration and create customer-focused assortments while meeting compliance requirements, sustainability and quality goals.

Third-party acknowledgement has already come in the form of industry accolades. Centric Software has been named a triple winner of the Just Food Excellence Awards 2023 in the categories of: Innovation, Business Expansion and Product Launches.

CEO of Centric Software, Chris Groves says, “We are thrilled and gratified that our entry into this vertical has taken off so quickly. Successful companies have chosen our solutions over more established—but perhaps less innovative—players. Our consumer goods focus, modern software and agile approach to end-to-end product go-to-market have surprised and won over producers, brands and retailers in the food & beverage space due to Centric PLM’s configurability, remarkable functionality and ease-of-use.”

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Centric Software® (https://www.centricsoftware.com/)

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides the market-leading AI-enabled Product Lifecycle Management platform for food & beverage manufacturers, grocery and multi-category retailers. As experts in all fast-moving consumer goods, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to design, develop, source, buy, make, package, assort and sell products. Centric solutions optimize the product portfolio, harmonize product offers and streamline product development by speeding time to market and innovation while enhancing quality control and ensuring regulatory compliance.

Centric PLM™ features integrated industry best practices and innovative, AI-enabled capabilities tailored specifically for food and beverage manufacturers, retailers and service providers. Seamlessly manage the overall product lifecycle, from initial concept and formula development to packaging, quality, supplier collaboration, nutritional labeling, production, SKU rationalization and beyond. Results include up to a 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.
Centric Visual Boards™ are a visually oriented top-down/bottom-up product portfolio optimization tool. Real-time data and imagery from multiple business systems are brought into a singular accessible workspace, creating a new, visual way of working for all teams to ensure robust, well-balanced global/regional product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time.

Centric Software maintains a 100% go-live rate and has received awards for excellence from Just Food, Just Drinks, Business Awards UK, Frost & Sullivan and many other regional accolades. Centric Software is proud to provide the best solutions, backed by the best team and to partner with the best customers.