February 26th, 2024

SNS Boosts Food R&D Agility with Centric PLM

Leading compound seasonings company collaborates with Centric Software to digitally transform R&D, reducing product development cycle time by 38%

CAMPBELL, Calif., February 27, 2024 – Centric Software® is delighted to announce the release of a success story about its customer, SNS Foods. 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 Chengdu in 2007, SNS specializes in developing compound food seasonings for major catering and restaurant chain clients, and adheres to the concept of ‘Safe, Natural and Savory’. SNS undertakes over 700 R&D and application projects annually, with a product range exceeding 4,000, and caters to more than 6,000 clients.

Ms. Zhang Min, Co-Founder and General Manager of SNS, explains that the company was facing the ‘Three Many’ challenge of “many projects, many products, many customers”.

“The high demand from our customers for ‘fast and precise responses’ has increased year by year,” she says. “This complexity makes our existing workflow difficult to cope with. We need a software solution to handle these tasks, which is why we initiated a PLM project.“

“In order to better serve catering chain enterprises, it is crucial to build an agile R&D system. Specifically, we need to capture market demands with agility and be able to precisely and quickly transform customer requirements into a product.”

SNS selected Centric PLM™, impressed by Centric Software’s dedicated team, mature software, professionalism, profound understanding of the industry and core values of customer satisfaction. SNS has been collaborating with Centric since 2021 and has completed two phases of the PLM project implementation.

Mr. Luo Zhiyan, CIO at SNS, states, “I will use three phrases to summarize the cooperation between Centric and us: 1. stable software platform, 2. strong and professional team, and 3. excellent customer service.”

“Currently, there are two quantifiable achievements from the PLM project,” he adds. “Firstly, our product development cycle time has been shortened by 38%; secondly, a product quotation can be completely accomplished within one day.”

With Centric PLM in place, SNS’s collaborative efficiency has significantly improved, and the goals of ‘digital R&D’ and ‘agile R&D’ have been widely achieved.

“We are delighted to collaborate with SNS, and our partnership has created a benchmark case for digitalizing R&D in the food industry,” says Fabrice Canonge, President of Centric Software. “We look forward to working further with the SNS team as they strive for continuous optimization, innovation and expansion, ultimately realizing end-to-end digitization across the entire value chain.”

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SNS (https://en.snsfood.com)

Chengdu SNS Biotechnology Co., Ltd. (SNS) was jointly established in Chengdu in 2007 by the founders, Mr. Zhu Junsong and Mrs. Zhang Min. With a background in the food industry, they have adhered to the original intention of ‘Safe, Natural and Savory’.

After years of development, SNS has become a leading enterprise in compound seasonings for the catering industry, serving numerous well-known restaurant chain enterprises such as Haidilao, Dalongyi and Xiaolongkan. SNS undertakes over 700 R&D and application projects annually, with a product range exceeding 4,000, and caters to more than 6,000 clients.

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.