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CENTRIC PLANNING

A transformational end-to-end retail planning platform.

Improve sell-through, maximize profitability and optimize
the omnichannel experience with AI-driven planning.

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Discover next-generation retail planning.

Our high-performance retail planning solution empowers planners, merchandisers and stock allocators to reduce markdowns and increase stock availability through advanced analytics and accurate AI-driven forecasting.

Built for omnichannel

Centric Planning is designed to handle the data volumes and process complexity that comes with today’s omnichannel requirements.

Collaborative

Synchronize planning, merchandising and product execution teams on one platform to make effective, collaborative decisions driven by real-time data and AI input.

Futureproof

Cloud-native, configurable solution with a robust roadmap, scalable IT architecture and low TCO. High user adoption rate prevents a return to siloed and fragmented ways of working.

Best-of-breed

Powerful processing enables faster reporting and analysis. Centric Planning is designed to meet the needs of retailers and integrates easily with other retail software.

“...we had a 5.6% operating margin at the end of fiscal year 2020. We closed this past year at 12%. It is a huge improvement in profits! ...If we had had a lot of inventory, we could not have done it. Centric Planning has been an enabler to truly follow our strategy and increase our profitability in a very, very big way.”

— Daniel Botey Vice President of Global Inventory Management at Guess

Discover our modules to get the right products to the right channel at the right time.

Pre-Season

In-Season

Merchandise Financial Planning

Range Planning

Assortment Planning & Buying

Store Allocation & Replenishment

Forecasting & Vendor Replenishment

Demand Planning

Visual Assortment Board for Planning

Omnichannel Showroom Board for Planning

Create your merchandise plan early and fast.

Distill enormous amounts of data into clear and accurate patterns and forecasts.
Embed advanced analytics at peak points in the planning process to improve decision-making.

75%

reduction planning cycle time

110+

increase in operating margin

Save time with high-performance omnichannel assortment planning.

Process and reconcile vast amounts of data across multiple stores, partners and channels to derive accurate insights and quickly define complex assortments.

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Meet consumer demand and reduce discounting.

Confidently build assortments with products consumers really want. Accurately balance the predicted desirability of products with the need to avoid overstocking and maximize profitability.

Minimize store stock holding to optimize profitability.

Forecast required store stock levels for upcoming weeks to keep levels low and reduce holding costs without compromising future sales.

Reduce costs with supplier cost modelling and stock level visibility.

Accurately forecast near-future sales and gain supply chain insights to avoid under- and overstocking. Achieve a balance between low inventory and adequate replenishment.

Meet customer demand across B2B and B2C channels.

Efficiently predict stock requirements, drive better commercial decisions with detailed analysis and avoid holding high levels of inventory to maximize profitability.

Drive omnichannel success with intelligent visual planning

Seamlessly connect product and planning data with image libraries in a single visual, interactive application.

Visually curate high-performing assortments by channel, region, door, drop with financial and forecast modelling for maximum SKU performance.

Optimize omnichannel sales performance

Maximize sales opportunities with a fully digitalized experience. Reach more clients with less resource at less cost.

Enable faster, more accurate orders with a live visual interactive digital showroom. Drive brand strategy and maximize revenue across every channel.

Discover the most powerful retail planning solution.

Flexible, highly configurable and proven ease of adoption.

Slice and dice in any direction, through multiple layers of data for easily customizable views and instant analyses.

Advanced Analytics, AI and ML capabilities.

Enhance decision making throughout the planning process through the delivery of insightful analyses, impactful indicators and accurate forecasting.

Robust performance and scalable.

Faster reporting and quicker time to analyses. Easily scale up to meet growing business requirements.

12,500+ Brands Trust Centric Software

Built hand-in-hand with fast-moving consumer goods and fashion brands and retailers to address real industry needs

Centric Planning Bolsters REPLAY’s Growth & Data Visibility

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KaDeWe Streamlines Processes for the Luxury Department Stores with Centric Planning

“With the new Centric Planning solution, buying and merchandising teams can work more collaboratively and are saving time because manual data entry has been eliminated. Being able to create what-if scenarios empowers teams to make strategic decisions faster and achieve sales and margin targets.”

— Julia Lehmann, Senior Head of Merchandise Management at KaDeWe

Guess Emerges Out of the Pandemic Stronger with Centric Planning

“Centric Planning has been an enabler to truly follow our strategy and increase our profitability in a very, very big way.”

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ABOUT YOU Ramps up Planning in Digital Fashion with Centric Planning

“We are able now to synchronize bottom up and top-down planning processes and everything is linked together...”

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“We wanted a solution where we could right from the start focus on what the team do best and that is planning." …"we are able now to synchronize bottom up and top-down planning processes and everything is linked together...”

— Martin Walter, Head of Merchandise Planning at About You

A FLEXIBLE AND SCALABLE DIGITAL FOUNDATION FOR GROWTH

Explore Centric’s AI market-driven solutions

Optimize each step of bringing a product to market, whether at the pre-season, in-season or end-of-season cycle. Streamline processes, reduce costs, maximize profitability and drive sustainability.