Centric PLM
Fashion & Apparel
Multi-Category Retail
Footwear
Outdoor & Sports
Consumer Goods
OEM & ODM Manufacturers
Home Décor & Furniture
Food and Beverage
Cosmetics & Personal Care
Consumer Electronics
Boost Your Product Development Teams and Meet Ever-changing Customer Needs
Identifying and responding to your customers’ preferences and evolving fashion trends can be a complex and painstaking endeavor when you are a retailer of more than 500+ locations, with an eComm platform and a large mix of merchandise.
Drive Higher Margins
Let’s Revolutionize Express’ Merchandise and Assortment Planning
Designed specifically to tackle omnichannel complexity and market volatility, innovative retail planning solutions facilitate fast, data-driven decisions. With the ability to visually manage assortments and drag-and-drop allocations, retailers can reduce time in the planning cycle for better analysis and time to forecast.
Centric Planning eliminates surprises (and spreadsheets!) with Machine Learning (ML)-led what-if scenario modeling, giving powerful insights and decision-making capabilities to merchandisers so they can prepare and quickly adjust when needed. This forecasting ability allows product development and merchandising teams to develop realistic sales estimates and make profitable in-season revisions with full visibility into raw materials costs, product margins and assortment product mix.
Create Better Products
With Centric Product Lifecycle Management (Centric PLM™) and Visual Boards, you can develop profitable products, align financial and merchandising plans while achieving sustainability and meeting market demands with a flexible, easy-to-use and scalable digital foundation for all your product related data. 100s of multicategory retailers, like Saks Fifth Avenue, Aritzia, and The Gap Inc., benefit from real-time visibility into:
- Buyer commitments
- KPIs & business targets
- Merchandising & assortment plans
- Internal, external & co-developed product data
- Data hosted in different systems such as ERP, PIM and other in-house solutions
Centric Software empowers organizations like Express to make informed, agile decisions that positively impact bottom lines and business growth.
Express Benefits
You will benefit from an end-to-end process that:
- Connects financial, merchandising, collection and product data from multiple systems
- Accesses internal, external, and co-developed designs, product details, 2D/3D imagery and media
- Creates and associates products, data, materials, colors and images to placeholders easily with drag-and-drop
- Presents assortments and makes bidirectional system updates live during market-to-market meetings
- Analyzes assortments in real time to ensure the achievement of KPIs and targets
- Drives dynamic roll-up reporting and interactive PDF line sheets
- Track your sustainability goals and KPIs
Empower teams across every department with Centric’s modern, mobile and intuitive digital solutions. Increase efficiency and bring great products to market faster.
Modern Tech Solutions for Express
Meet Your Dedicated Centric Software Team Member
Reid Swanson
Sales Director
