"We’re starting to see the value in the quick reporting and a single source of the truth to fully-utilize everything that Centric PLM has to offer."
AARON HELLICKSONProduct Development Technology Manager,
Keen
Maintaining growth targets. Reacting to consumer demand and market shifts. Handling cost and supply chain challenges. Managing large volumes of product data. Designing and creating innovative and highly technical products. Ensuring compliance with product safety regulations and guaranteeing sustainability.
These are just some of the unique challenges facing outdoor and sports footwear brands and companies. With longer lead times than apparel, footwear businesses have to complete line planning, merchandising and product development earlier and faster than ever before.
Centric PLM digitally transforms product development and launch for outdoor and sports footwear brands and retailers. Connect teams with a single source of actionable truth to streamline operations, accelerate innovation, develop new collections more efficiently, optimize costs, maximize SKU performance, speed time to market without sacrificing quality, drive sustainability initiatives and ultimately power global growth.
Centralize data to drive speed to market
Accelerate product innovation
Ensure quality, safety and compliance
Plan better to improve product margins
Build product ‘know-how’ and retain top talent
Boost sustainability and transparency
Our PLM innovations are driven by our outdoor and footwear customers, incorporating feedback from hundreds of successful implementations. Take advantage of footwear-specific best practices built into our highly configurable and scalable solutions.
Innovative modular PLM solution with out-of-the-box functionality that combines Silicon Valley tech with industry best practices. Streamlines product development and launch from concept to retail with a single, actionable, real-time version of truth, boosting productivity, collaboration and control.
Leverage PLM data throughout the business for greater efficiency. Easily connect Centric PLM with software including 3D CAD and 2D design applications, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), e-commerce, PIM (Product Information Management), DAM (Data Asset Management) and quality management software.
Connect leading 3D CAD solutions like SOLIDWORKS, AutoCAD and many more directly to PLM so CAD designers and engineers can work seamlessly in their native environment. Reduce physical samples, ideate faster, streamline sample reviews and push photo-realistic products to e-commerce channels.
Sketch, seamlessly access materials and components and start building BOMs from within Adobe® Illustrator. Empower footwear designers and product development teams with creative, technical and production details from PLM libraries while working in Adobe® Illustrator so they can focus on innovation.
PLM-connected mobile apps enable teams to work any time, from anywhere, cut tedious data entry and encourage collaboration with intuitive, social features. Conduct quality control and sample reviews, audit factories, capture inspiration, carry out competitive analysis and more on the go.
Implement fast and flexibly to benefit from the fastest ROI in the industry with Centric’s unique Agile Deployment methodology. Need to connect teams remotely right now? Respond to market disruptions and get up and running with a lean version of PLM in just days with Quick Start packages.
Highly visual digital workspaces that connect worldwide teams to make collaborative, actionable decisions in real time. Ideate products/collections, track and collect product data, orders and pre-buys, and enable central and regional merchandising teams to work together on initial and final assortments.
Cloud-based, user-driven SaaS PLM solution for emerging enterprises - no IT team needed. Replace spreadsheets and emails to streamline work for growing assortments/SKUs and retail expansion. Add modules and mobile apps as your business evolves, teams expand and product offers become more complex.