Next Generation PLM for Fashion and Consumer Goods from Centric Software

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Apparel and private-label industries are challenged with short lifecycles, rapid changes in customer demand, and a globally dispersed supply chain.

Centric Software specifically designed the next generation of PLM software for the apparel and private label industries to speed new products to market, drive margin improvement, and improve global collaboration and compliance.

Centric is the only PLM solutions provider to incorporate four crucial applications in one system:

Line Planning
Product Specification
Product Sourcing
Calendar Management
These powerful applications run on the Centric Product Intelligence platform for improved collaboration with global partners and suppliers to bring products to market quickly and cost-effectively.
Centric solutions are typically deployed in one design cycle and deliver returns in the next.
Speed your next collection to market with the next generation of PLM from Centric.

Learn more about solutions for Apparel and Private Label Industries.

The Case for Next-Generation PLM in the AFA Industry
Featured white paper addressing PLM challenges specific to AFA companies
Free White Paper

Achieving Strategic Gains Through Effective Private Label Sourcing
Webinar featuring SVP from United Stationers on 10.14.2008
View Webinar Now!

Excellence in Sourcing
Research and analysis on global sourcing trends for 2008 by Apparel Magazine and KSA
Free White Paper

12.16.2008
AAFA's PLM Seminar & Exhibition
New York City, NY

10.30.2008
Centric CTO Honored by Georgia Tech

10.24.2008
West Coast Companies at N.Y. Tech Conference
Presented by California Apparel News

Utilizing the latest technology and web platform, Centric Software delivers a comprehensive Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution that allows fashion and consumer goods companies to replace multiple, disconnected systems and isolated documents with a single, global solution supplying real-time data across the global supply chain. Centric PLM solutions enable companies to speed new products to market, lower costs, improve gross margins, and facilitate global collaboration and ensure compliance. Easy to use and configure, and quick to deploy, Centric PLM solutions are typically implemented in only one season, providing immediate benefits and ROI in the next. The PLM Suite is a comprehensive enterprise solution encompassing all phases of product development for the fashion and private label brand industries.

With Centric Line Planning, Product Specification, Product Sourcing and Calendar Management, apparel designers and their partners can quickly create and manage target plans for collections, assortments, costs, and margins. They can collaboratively create, review, and manage the entire technical specification. They can optimize geographic dispersed teams and production. And they can ensure on-time delivery with a cross-team view of critical deadlines.

Centric's Private Label Sourcing applications coordinate new product sourcing activities and metrics with remote suppliers, allowing manufacturers and retailers to keep up with consumer demands for more new products more often, and bring the right mix of private label products to market at the right price and the right time.