Centric Visual Boards – Unified collaborative workspaces for product development
Connect Systems and Teams and Create Competitive, Consumer-Focused Visual Assortment Plans
Unify real-time data and imagery from multiple systems in one accessible visual workspace to unify systems, processes, and teams.
Bridge the gaps between planning, concept, design, merchandising, buying, and development with instant, AI-powered collaboration and communication.
Cut time to market and stay future ready in the face of disruption and consumer demand evolution with a collaboration platform built for agility.
20,000+ Brands are brought to market with Centric Software
Transform collaboration, planning and decision-making to target the heart of consumer demand.
Centric Visual Boards bring real-time data and imagery from multiple business systems into a singular accessible, visual workspace, combining expertise across cross-functional teams and providing maximum visibility into group decisions.
With the ability to instantly execute on business-critical decisions from within the Visual Boards interface, teams collaborate to dramatically speed time to market and create products and assortments that match demand.
Visual Boards are a game-changing technology that enable brands and retailers to exploit the potential of total digital transformation and remain future-ready in the face of market disruption.
Build organizational agility
Explore limitless "what-if" scenarios and rapidly visualize the impact of decisions using real-time data. Enable teams to react quickly to market shifts and challenges.
INCREASE ROI OF EXISTING SYSTEMS
Visual Boards are system-agnostic, pulling and pushing real-time data from multiple platforms. Unlock the value of data from existing systems with visual interactivity.
ENHANCE EFFICIENCY
Connect multi-site and cross-functional teams in a visual, collaborative environment. Save time, act immediately on decisions and free up valuable human resources.
ACCELERATE SPEED
Plan, manage, and execute superior assortments, faster. Streamline enterprise system and offline tasks from concept to store delivery.
IMPROVE TEAM SATISFACTION
Give teams next-generation digital technology that can be used by any role, with information presented in an intuitive visual format. Retain talent with better tools.
DRIVE SUSTAINABILITY
Reduce excess inventory with customer-centered assortment planning. Cut waste and improve production decisions with earlier, more precise order commitments.
Discover the Visual Boards
Visual Assortment Board
For Planning & PLM
Achieve the ultimate assortment performance.
Orchestrate profitable assortments across every sales channel faster by connecting teams in a visually interactive workspace.
Merge vast amounts of data and images from any business system in real time to unify systems, processes and teams.
Accelerate thousands of decisions and deliver the right product mix across multiple channels, regions and categories.
Our customer results speak for themselves.
Trusted by thousands of the world’s leading brands.
...the Visual Boards have released time to focus on what’s most important now. That is the most significant gain—the teams can work on what matters most. Also valuable is the improvement of communication between creation and product marketing. Being a visual tool, you’re able to present information in a more comprehensive way.
ASICS Leverages the Power of Centric PLM and Centric Visual Boards to Streamline Product Concept to Launch Process
We can reduce the time it takes to complete the entire process from planning to development. Product master data from Centric PLM is integrated with downstream systems, so we avoid duplicate maintenance of data in different systems.
Arc’teryx adds Centric Visual Boards and 3D enablement after increasing speed-to-market with Centric PLM
We’ve tried different solutions; there are maybe some advantages to using a white-boarding tool but it doesn’t have the integrated data or all of the features.
70%
faster buy session setup
99%
faster assortment creation
77%
time savings in line sheet development per delivery
1.5M Euro
in value of gained time and reduced travel costs
Empower your teams to work more visually
Deliver the products and assortments customers want with integrated visual collaboration tools that match the needs of every role.
Planning
Precisely forecast with interactive, visual merchandise financial planning.
Achieve earlier and more accurate vendor planning decisions
Dramatically reduce excess inventory and costs
Exceed KPI’s, improve sales and increase margins
Discover how teams collaborate to boost speed, efficiency and profitability with Centric Visual Boards.
Frequently Asked Questions
Centric Visual Boards are a family of visualized pivot tables that combine live data from multiple platforms with 2D and/or 3D images. Visual Boards improve team collaboration and optimize range category management to get closer to consumers and be more competitive.
The most common expression used to describe Visual Board is that the interface is like a visual chess game. The boards enable teams to bring live data and visual information together at just the right time to interactively or collaboratively make faster, more targeted decisions.
Centric Visual Boards can be integrated with any enterprise solution and are PLM, Planning and ERP agnostic. Visual Boards represent live data from multiple systems in a visual interface and can be used to execute changes in connected systems directly from the Visual Boards.
Many different teams can use Centric Visual Boards to collaborate and make decisions together.
Planning teams precisely forecast and achieve optimal merchandise financial plans using live, visual interactive tools that combine visuals with financials and every point of data from style information to geography, channel and store type.
Design teams boost creativity with enhanced whiteboarding capabilities connected to live, interactive data that can be accessed from any enterprise system such as PLM. Data integrity is maintained and updates back to the original systems can be made with explicit action.
Merchandising teams accelerate thousands of decisions using ‘what-if’ visualization in real time, accessing every data point needed to optimize the merchandise mix from style information to delivery, regions and channels.
Buying teams facilitate unmatched omnichannel ordering intuitively by cluster, door, product, size, color and more to meet consumer demand through curated, always up-to-date assortment suggestions.
Sales teams are empowered to deliver customer-centric showrooms to every channel, providing unparalleled buying tools amplified with real-time sales reporting to maximize customer responsiveness.
Centric Visual Boards are highly flexible and have many applications across different industries. Companies in fashion, footwear, outdoor and sports, consumer goods, home décor and furniture, food and beverage, cosmetics and beauty and consumer electronics use Centric Visual Boards.
No. While planning is a primary application of Centric Visual Boards, and they can be connected with planning solutions, the Visual Boards can also be used for design concepting, buying sessions, creating interactive digital catalogs and much more.
No. Visual Boards support the process of enhancing merchandising and category management planning visually.
Companies using Centric Visual Boards typically experience benefits such as faster time to market, more profitable assortments and more agile decision-making to react to market shifts, saving time to focus on value-added creative work, reduced paper and printing costs and improved sustainability.
No. The board interface is user-friendly and highly intuitive. Request a demo below to see just how easy it is for your teams to start using Centric Visual Boards.
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Automate pricing decisions for all products across categories and channels and optimize allocation and replenishment to increase margins, revenue and sell-through.
Centric Market Intelligence
Gain insights into competitor assortment and pricing strategies, understand consumer trends and buying behavior and spot market opportunities.
Centric Visual Boards
A visual-first approach to bridge gaps between teams and systems. Accelerate and transform decision making with a visual pivot table.
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