May 28th, 2025

HUMAN MADE Inc. Successfully Implements Centric PLM to Drive Revenue Growth

“After assessing various PLM solutions, HUMAN MADE Inc. selected Centric PLM for its strong track record of successful implementations worldwide and features tailored to the apparel and retail industry.”

— HUMAN MADE Inc.

Japanese lifestyle brand, HUMAN MADE leverages Centric PLM to streamline operations and increase efficiency

CAMPBELL, Calif., May 29, 2025 – HUMAN MADE Inc., the company behind Japanese lifestyle brand, HUMAN MADE has successfully implemented Centric PLM™ to drive efficiency and growth. Centric Software® provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, price and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, consumer electronics, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Launched in 2010, HUMAN MADE is a lifestyle brand based on the theme of “The Future Is In The Past”. Drawing inspiration from NIGO’s vintage collection, an extensive archive decades in the making, HUMAN MADE is based on NIGO’s unique approach to mixing various styles and an uncompromising approach to craftsmanship. The brand defies conventional categorization, combining American casual style with a range of influences, from workwear to military, outdoor and sports.

After assessing various PLM solutions, HUMAN MADE Inc. selected Centric PLM for its strong track record of successful implementations worldwide and features tailored to the apparel and retail industry. With Centric PLM, HUMAN MADE Inc. is set to achieve greater efficiency and accelerate brand growth.

“We are excited about the successful PLM rollout with HUMAN MADE Inc. and the impressive results they have achieved to date,” says Fabrice Canonge, President of Centric Software. “We look forward to a lasting partnership and supporting the brand’s continued success and global growth.”

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HUMAN MADE Inc. (humanmade.jp)

Based on the mission, “Born from creative inspiration, made with heart and humanity,” the company fuses the latest culture of the streets with a deep reverence of the past, to create items and experiences that shape new culture.

These include NIGO’s lifestyle brand HUMAN MADE, which is based on the concept of “The Future is in the Past,” CURRY UP, a Tokyo-based shop offering curries that are made with original spices and additive free, as well as providing corporate branding support, collaborating on various projects, and producing on a global scale, including product development and spatial design.

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, market, 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 competitivity 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 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.