Centric Software Introduces Next Generation of Food & Beverage PLM

Centric Software has successfully spread through multiple sectors by partnering with 450+ brands, retailers, and suppliers in 30+ countries and integrating Silicon Valley technologies with market-driven best practices.

FREMONT, CA: Centric Software, the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market leader, has introduced PLM solutions specifically for the food and beverage industry. Centric Software offers the most creative business strategies for planning, designing, developing, sourcing, and selling items such as clothing, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home, health and beauty, luxury, and now food and beverage in order to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Centric Software has successfully spread through multiple sectors by partnering with 450+ brands, retailers, and suppliers in 30+ countries and integrating Silicon Valley technologies with market-driven best practices. Centric, which has a customer retention rate of 99 percent, is now introducing PLM technologies, as well as its proven speed, ease of use, and Agile Deployment methodology, to the food and beverage industry.

Centric PLMTM, Centric's flagship platform, is filled with industry-leading innovations to accelerate time to market, optimize product assortments, minimize Cost of Goods Sold (COGS), and promote private label production and supplier co-creation while adhering to quality and enforcement requirements.

"Centric Food and Beverage PLM brings the power, maturity and agility of the Centric Platform combined with built-in industry-driven product concept to consumer innovations, such as product portfolio management (PPM), end-to-end (CAD neutral) 3D and social (Slack, Teams & other) PLM workflows, a vendor collaboration portal for sourcing and supplier co-creation, calendar management, integration with other business systems (ERP, e-commerce, etc.), and much, much more," stated Ron Watson, VP of Product at Centric Software. "In addition, we have also developed innovations that are specific to the needs of the food and beverage industry including formulation management, packaging development, artwork proofing, labeling and open API connections to nutritional databases such as USDA and CIQUAL."