Food & Beverage
Develop Safe, Sustainable, High Quality Food & Beverage Products
Reduce risk and ensure compliance, traceability and safety in a highly regulated environment.
Easily adapt to ingredient changes from R&D to label creation, marketing and beyond.
Capture a higher portion of market share with innovative, brand-displacing products.
The world’s top brands, retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers bring products to market with Centric Software solutions
See how food and beverage teams get results
Leverage AI-powered Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and visual collaboration tools to optimize product offerings, boost agility and meet accelerated marketplace pressures and operational challenges head-on. Don't take our word for it: see the ROI for retailers, brands and manufacturers.
60%
Faster time to market
30%
improved productivity
15%
rise in margins
15%
reduction in COGS
93%
reduction in spreadsheets
The market-leading product lifecycle management solution for fast-moving consumer goods
Centric PLM and Centric Visual Boards
Streamline products, boost agility, increase innovation and overcome market challenges with Centric Software.
Product Lifecycle Management
Optimize recipes, manage ingredients and drive innovation while reducing costs. Enhance collaboration and ensure compliance with Centric PLM's centralized data and automated workflows.
Assortment Optimization Tools
Orchestrate global and local assortments to stay close to consumers by meeting regional needs while taking advantage of economies of scale.
Product Experience Management
Power product commercialization with AI-driven PIM, DAM and content syndication. Capture nutrition, allergen and packaging details directly from PLM, enrich with lifestyle images and distribute compliant, localized product information.
Award-winning technology
Move from multiple disconnected systems to one digital platform.
Discover Centric Software’s robust end-to-end solution designed for the food and beverage industry. Streamline and optimize projects and workflows while reconnecting functional teams for faster time to market. Leverage AI to automate manual tasks, reduce inefficiencies and centralize information in one always up-to-date platform.
Request a DemoManage tasks efficiently with built-in workflows. See the impact of R&D, design, packaging and supply decisions on cost, delivery and more while maximizing efficiency.
Easily update and manage data and documentation for product formulation, ingredients, packaging and more. Centralize all product data connected directly to each product to track changes over time.
Quickly develop, source and update labels using templates populated with formulation, allergen, nutrition and regulatory data from PLM and connected databases.
Leverage AI to automate tasks from smart searches on past recipe trials or similar raw ingredients to speed time within product development tasks.
Accelerate decision making with powerful visual, assortment optimization tools that enhance visibility to better plan, manage and execute superior product assortments.
The food and beverage industry is in constant crisis mode
From changing consumer tastes to weather events and supply chain issues to regulatory compliance and safety recalls, the food and beverage industry faces a unique set of challenges.
Ingredient substitution
Price increases, crop failures, conflict and shipping blockades are some events that can cause ingredient shortages and require ingredient substitution. But replacing ingredients is a significant health hazard, teams must undertake R&D and update allergens from packaging to shelf.
Food safety risks
Every food item on the shelf carries a potential health risk, relying on spreadsheets to manage compliance and traceability is no longer sufficient. To effectively reduce risk, protect customers and brand reputation, teams must have access to tools specifically for product development.
Consumer loyalty
Consumers have a limited need for fresh food and calories to consume, making the battle for market share highly competitive. Capturing market share and building brand loyalty are crucial, but can be held back by slow time to market and inefficient product development.
Successfully navigate complex challenges with Centric’s AI solutions
Centric Software leverages AI for market-driven solutions tailored to food and beverage companies. Streamline R&D, manage product changes, speed time to market and reduce waste. Make sound strategic decisions to grow revenues and market share.
Request a DemoSPEED TIME TO MARKET
Cut R&D process time and get market-responsive products on the shelf before the competition. Connect everyone to one real-time source of truth for streamlined and efficient formulation, ingredient selection and more. Finally meet those ambitious deadlines.
ENSURE COMPLIANCE AND TRACEABILITY
Simplify quality control and global compliance. Centralize and track the history of ingredient changes and decisions. Automatically update changes from formulation to artwork to marketing. FoodChain ID integration enhances regulatory compliance capabilities.
BOOST RETURN ON INNOVATION INVESTMENT
Streamline R&D and leverage AI to automate creative tasks to do more with the same resources. Strengthen the innovation pipeline with new products more often. Improve future sales by providing data-driven sales collateral early in the innovation cycle.
ENLARGE MARKET SHARE
Increase market share with improved, more reactive product development to capitalize on food trends, capture more of the market early and defend it more effectively. Build consumer loyalty with improved traceability and compliant, safe and sustainable products.
ENABLE SUSTAINABILITY
Build a digital foundation for supply chain transparency and accountability. Track adherence to sustainability targets to inform CSR and ESG reporting. Prevent overproduction, optimize inventory and document ingredients, waste, carbon footprint, ethical labor and more.
REDUCE COSTS AND INCREASE MARGINS
Leverage AI digital tools to save time and money by eliminating costly, error-prone manual tasks such as data entry and spreadsheet admin. Increase revenue as a direct result of faster time to market and a more streamlined approach to reduce risk.
The world's top food and beverage companies use Centric to boost productivity, innovation and growth
We love the platform and find it user friendly. We're happy with the finished product.
Working with the Centric Software teams has been a key driver in our digital transformation journey. Their collaborative approach and responsiveness have enabled us to streamline our processes, centralize our data and create a more efficient and connected way of developing products.
NHCO Nutrition Laboratory Harnesses Centric PLM to Enhance Product Development and Support Regulatory Compliance
The auditor praised our structured approach to product management and the centralized data environment made possible by Centric PLM. We are a pioneer in the dietary supplements space and this marks a major step forward.
Elevate Global and Regional Assortments with Centric Visual Boards
Centric Visual Boards are a family of visual pivot tables that combine actionable, live data from multiple solutions like PLM, ERP and others with 2D and/or 3D images. Visual Boards optimize range category management to get closer to consumers. Be more competitive while saving thousands of hours of work and travel to reduce costs and speed time to market.
We work with all types of companies, large or small
Developing safe and compliant products, maximizing profitability and meeting sustainability goals are important no matter the company type or size.
That's why we work hand-in-hand with our food and beverage customers to understand their unique and complex day-to-day operational and strategic requirements, and continue to iterate and develop our solutions to keep up with the changing needs of the food and beverage industry.
INGREDIENT PROVIDERS
Manage regulatory compliance, quality control and sourcing with a single source of truth. Streamline collaboration with customers and increase efficiency with the same resources.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE COMPANIES
React to changes and empower R&D with greater visibility, control and productivity to get great products to market on time and capture market share.
FOOD SERVICE COMPANIES
Build consistency and efficiency from product ideation all the way to delivery at retail. Deliver products consumers want, at the right time, place and price point.
Discover how teams benefit with Centric Software
Drive innovation and streamline product development with a centralized, end-to-end solution.
Automate formulations.
Optimize nutrient targets to ingredient constraints.
Easily access regulatory and compliance data.
Efficiently assess ingredient lists, nutritional values and allergens.
Collaborate seamlessly.
Reduce sourcing and supplier logistical delays.
Identify cost gaps and opportunities and maximize successful, consumer-centric product launches.
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