Centric PLM - retail-first SAAS product lifecycle management
Cut Time to Market and Physical Sampling Needs in Half
Bring products to market fast with full AI-powered lifecycle visibility across all styles, specs, BOMs, and sampling and supply chain management.
Protect and grow margins with day-one, profit-led design enabled by live costing, quotes, material impact data and tariff simulations.
Leverage AI-powered scale, sustainability and compliance with clean, structured product and assortment data in a central, transparent, growth engine.
Over 13,000 global brands, retailers and manufacturers create, launch and commercialize better products at higher margins with Centric PLM.
Take products from concept to commercialization at the speed of global markets
Develop more profitable products and assortments with a single platform for design, iteration, sourcing, prototyping, testing, certification and launch. Seamlessly integrate 2D and 3D creation tools, collaborate globally with intuitive virtual visual presentation capabilities and enhance and safeguard entire supply chains for durability, sustainability and compliance.
2.5
Times faster time to market
50%
Fewer physical samples
30%
Greater productivity
100%
BOM accuracy
Unify product creation, costing and data control in one plm platform
Streamline product design and launches with AI-powered tools that reduce cost sampling. Balance staples with innovative and trend-led new pieces.
Visualize and create cohesive collections fast with drag-and-drop functionality and integrated PLM library access for better SKU and feature mixes.
Create, share, price and launch products and collections for reduced cycle times and greater margin visibility directly from PLM with Centric Software’s end-to-end integrated solutions.
Leading brands and retailers see real results with Centric Software
...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.
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.
Centric PLM is the engine behind our digital transformation, connecting our teams, systems and strategy in one platform.
Our design team, who were initially skeptical, now love the system. They have all their reports built out, tracking every detail of artwork and revision processes. The operations team similarly transformed their workflow, using PLM to match customer orders with purchase orders with a level of accuracy previously unimaginable.
Built for the complexity and challenges of real industries and global markets
Fashion and apparel
Boost margins by reducing time to market, cutting costs, optimizing inventories and driving compliance and sustainability. Transform value chains from planning and design to sourcing, pricing, testing, and commercialization.
Footwear
Manage complex bills of materials with ease throughout entire ranges. Reduce sample rounds and bottlenecks from design to merchandising to bring the right products to market at speed.
Outdoor and sports
Drive growth and innovate quality apparel, gear and footwear with industry-leading AI-powered solutions. Optimize lifecycles and cut sampling and inventory with unified pre- and in-season workflows to reduce waste and drive sustainability with perfect traceability throughout global supply chains.
Home and furniture
Connect design, development, sourcing, manufacturing and retail in one digital space to boost business agility and bring more products to more markets faster. Get closer to suppliers to develop innovative and varied ranges with margin and sustainability baked in from day one.
OEM/ODM manufacturing
Cut time to market with AI-powered, on-trend designs and accelerated cycle times to win private-label and ODM business. Streamline vendor and brand collaboration and sourcing for robust, transparent supply chains and reduced sampling costs and lead times in a single AI-powered platform.
Consumer electronics
Go to market fast with one AI-powered platform for collaborative design, sourcing, testing, portfolio planning and commercialization. Leverage integrated AI insights to reduce bottlenecks across design, quality control, supply chain management, manufacturing and merchandising.
Beauty and cosmetics
Centralize product development, testing and launch cycles for faster time to market and lower COGS. Grow revenue and margins with improved market intelligence, optimized assortment planning and a truly omnichannel product experience.
Multi-category retail
Cut time to market, lower COGS and launch new SKUs at scale with collaborative, unified development cycles. Satisfy consumers across markets with real-time intelligence and AI-powered insight while cutting discounts and inventory.
Grocery and food & beverage
Streamline product offer changes across country, channel and category views. Optimize pricing and supplier strategy decisions with AI-powered insight and automate seasonal shifts. Visualize and coordinate entire product families with centralized data to eliminate inefficiencies and safeguard margins.
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Frequently Asked Questions
PLM Fundamentals
PLM software makes every part of the product lifecycle simpler to manage, from concept to replenishment. PLM software accelerates product development by streamlining design, sourcing, sampling and quality and compliance testing to reduce material use and waste even for complex products with highly specialized designs and component needs—including over assortments with thousands of different SKUs.
PLM software cuts costs and timelines across design, prototyping, sourcing and supply chain management, accelerates time to market and boosts margins. These efficiencies become even greater through centralizing and digitizing approvals and communications workflows and play a vital role in managing sustainability and traceability from certifications to material and product impact scores.
Yes. Centric PLM is completely scalable for teams of 10 or 20,000 users. Current customers include established international brands and retailers, regional players and specialists across a variety of highly complex, consumer-focused industries.
Take 60 minutes to see Centric PLM in action
Connect with industry-based PLM specialists and demo Centric PLM to learn how to accelerate your product development cycles to market speed.