Meeting Group Selects Centric PLM™ for Complete Collection Visibility

Premium Italian sportswear brand partners with Centric Software® to streamline data, improve product quality and save time

CAMPBELL, Calif., July 5, 2022 – Meeting Group, a premium Italian-based women’s sportswear producer, has selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Meeting Group was born thanks to the meeting of an athlete and a young industrial designer in 1967 in Treviso, Italy. The duo created a dynamic brand specializing in the production of premium Italian apparel for women who appreciate an active lifestyle, and naturally mix sport with glam-fashion. For more than 50 years, Meeting Group has been manufacturing apparel with great care and passion and maintains nearly 90 percent of their production locally, with the remaining in Turkey and the Far East.

Meeting Group is focused on expanding their women’s activewear collection DEHA. This brand line draws its inspiration from the world of Ballet and offers a perfect mix between the technical performance of its fabrics and a more fashionable design. DEHA produces two collections per year, has nearly 500 SKUs and is distributed in over 1,000 multi-brand stores worldwide and in the most prestigious international department stores.

When Andrea Dei Rossi, Chief Innovation Officer at Meeting Group joined the team, he immediately identified the need for digital transformation. The group was working with an outdated Product Data Management (PDM) system that wasn’t integrated with the company’s ERP system, causing delays and data integrity issues.

“I knew we could not continue to work in this way,” says Dei Rossi. “The first step was to move to a new technology platform with a modern and easy to use interface, where data could be stored and retrieved in real-time.”

Dei Rossi wanted to improve product quality and team collaboration by having a single source of truth. He knew a PLM system could help speed processes from design to Bill of Materials (BOM) to costing and help the group analyze collections more efficiently.

“The main purpose of this project is data centralization and organization,” says Dei Rossi. “Today, information is scattered throughout our ERP system, in Excel files and on people’s computers. We wanted to have a single repository for data that is visible to everyone.”

Centric PLM is expected to streamline the product development process, streamline collaboration and improve overall supply chain efficiency.

“It will be great to access all the data live and not have to sort through emails and external charts to find relevant information.  We spend too much time on internal communication and we want to make our work more efficient. So we wanted a system where we can organize all our documents and communicate with the whole team in a very effective way. We are also excited about Centric PLM’s workflow management system and to be able to  better collaborate with vendors. It’s going to make us more efficient and faster,” adds Dei Rossi.

Dei Rossi had worked with Centric Software in the past and was familiar with the power of Centric PLM. He selected Centric as a PLM partner based on Centric’s apparel industry expertise, client references and easy to use interface.

“Our product quality is high and Centric PLM will help speed workflows and ultimately improve collaboration and quality of work.”

“We are thrilled that Meeting Group has chosen Centric PLM as their single source of truth,” says Chris Groves, President and CEO of Centric Software. “We look forward to working with a premium, Made in Italy brand that is focussed on innovative, high-quality design and production.”

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Meeting Group (www.meeting-spa.com)

In the revolutionary sixties, while Italian design and fashion knew a moment of extraordinary expression, there was the meeting between a young athlete Raimondo Tauro and a young designer Renato Vendramel. From this meeting in 1967 the Meeting Group S.p.A. was born. This dynamic reality in the Treviso area, soon became a leader in the premium Italian sportswear market.

Meeting Group specializes in the production of top-quality Italian apparel, manufactured with great care and passion, for women who appreciate an active lifestyle. Its products are designed for sporty and casual people who like to dress according to a personal style rather than simply following fashion. Meeting Group offers innovative design and extreme care for every detail, creating each time, unique and distinctive collections.

Thanks to the know-how gained over the years, and to the precious contribution of figures of excellence in the textile industry, the company has always managed the whole supply chain: from the stylistic creativity to the modeling and from the production to commercial distribution.

DEHA (www.deha.it)

DEHA was founded in 2005 by Meeting Group as a celebration of the dance world and evolved into a total look. It has established itself quickly thanks to its recognizable style characterized by quality, softness and femininity.

Today, DEHA is the synthesis of the evolution of Meeting Group’s original spirit and its history. It has become its pulsing heart. This brand line draws its inspiration from the world of Ballet, and offers a perfect mix between the technical performances of its fabrics and a more fashionable design.

DEHA is distributed in over 1,000 multi-brand stores worldwide and in the most prestigious international department stores with shop-in-shop.

Centric Software (centric-staging.com)

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software® provides a Product Concept to Consumer Digital Transformation Platform for fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor, consumer electronics and consumer goods including cosmetics and personal care and food and beverage. Centric’s flagship Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM™, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric Visual Innovation Platform (CVIP) offers highly visual digital board experiences for collaboration and decision-making. Centric Retail Planning is an innovative, cloud-native solution power by Armonica Retail S.R.L., that delivers an end-to-end retail planning process designed to maximize retail business performance. Centric Software pioneered mobility, introducing the first mobile apps for PLM, and is widely known for connectivity to dozens of other enterprise systems including ERP, DAM, PIM, e-com, planning and more as well as creative tools such as Adobe® Illustrator and a host of 3D CAD connectors. Centric’s innovations are 100% market-driven with the highest user adoption rate and fastest time to value in the industry. All Centric innovations shorten time to market, boost product innovation and reduce costs.

Centric Software is majority-owned by Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and PLM solutions.

Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, including being named by Red Herring to its Top 100 Global list in 2013, 2015 and 2016. Centric also received various excellence awards from Frost & Sullivan in 2012, 2016, 2018 and 2021.

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