September 30th, 2024

Dan Post Finds a Perfect Fit in Centric PLM

Western boot company partners with Centric Software to streamline collaboration and enhance transparency

CAMPBELL, Calif., October 1, 2024 – Centric Software® is pleased to announce that iconic western boot brand Dan Post Boot Company has selected Centric PLM™ to optimize product data management, efficiency and transparency. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, outdoor, luxury, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Founded in the 1960s, Dan Post boots are synonymous with superior fit and fashion-forward design. Their handcrafted method starts with the finest exotic skins and premium leathers handled by the finest designers in the world. The company produces approximately 150 new styles each year through their two brands: Dan Post and Laredo.

With an increasing amount of sampling, sourcing, materials and design data to juggle, they turned to an ‘all-in-one’ ERP and PLM solution in 2016. However, they ran into limitations and began to re-evaluate their PLM decision. Having had a positive experience with Centric Software over a decade earlier, they chose to go back to Centric PLM.

“Our old PLM solution was not web-based. We couldn’t access it from anywhere, it was slow and users would get bogged down,” explains Stephanie Greenfield, Director of Product Development at Dan Post. “User adoption was low and we went back to a more antiquated way of doing things using shared documents.”

Dan Post considered several options, but selected Centric PLM based on past experience, user-friendliness and ability to scale with the business.

“We needed to get back to a PLM that we knew would work, and that designers would like to use,” Greenfield says. “Because PLM is a primary focus for Centric, we can rely on future innovation and updates to the solution.”

Dan Post has just begun implementing Centric PLM, and the team is anticipating changes, says Greenfield.

“One of the great things about Centric is that we can easily update it when we’re on the go. Because we will have all the information in one central place we will be able to generate line sheets very quickly. Our production and sourcing teams will be able to track material usage and hold factories accountable for the time period it takes to get samples made. There are many exciting possibilities for leveraging data to make future decisions, once we get it all into one system.”

“Working with the Centric team is great,” she concludes. “The follow-through has been awesome and they are very, very thorough.”

“We are delighted to welcome Dan Post as a returning customer,” says Chris Groves, CEO of Centric Software. “Dan Post is known for attention to detail and commitment to quality, and we are equally dedicated to making sure that their PLM implementation is a perfect fit. We look forward to working with Dan Post as they streamline and scale their business.”

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Dan Post Boot Company (danpostboots.com)

Since the 1960s, Dan Post has established itself as an iconic western brand known for challenging the status quo. Our name is synonymous with handcrafted cushion comfort from the first step, and it’s a legacy taken seriously. Offering superior quality and created with the most innovative, artisanal methodologies, we use only finest in exotic skins and premium leathers. Every part of our 160-step process is intentional, and stands the test of time, and you’ll feel the difference.

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.