Centric PLM - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Leave data chaos and manual systems behind with Centric Product Lifecycle Management (Centric PLM™). Develop profitable products while achieving sustainability and traceability goals with a flexible, easy to use and scalable digital foundation for growth.

*Sourcing*
- Gain full visibility into material costs/product margins
- Control flow of information while giving suppliers access to necessary data
- Evaluate and rationalize your supplier base
- Issue RFQs en masse and easily compare price quotes
- Connect suppliers through the PLM supplier portal to improve collaboration

*R&D/Product Development*
- Simplify communication with one source of truth
- Streamline private label and supplier co-created development
- Eliminate duplicate data entry and time-consuming manual tasks
- Increase efficiency and cross-team collaboration to drive innovation faster

*Planning*
- Easily see priorities and manage accordingly
- View holistically and collaborate on season planning
- Know exactly where a product is in its lifecycle
- Leverage data from past seasons to forecast demand and plan successful products
- Build accurate reports quickly, based on up-to-date information

*Quality*
- Manage quality control and inspections with mobile apps and templates directly connected to PLM that are accessible by all team members in real time
- Facilitate supplier self-assessments and other third-party assessments using audit templates, mobile applications, and alert settings
- Develop high-quality products that meet consumer expectations

*Compliance*
- Maintain compliance documentation in a single, up-to-date digital location
- Flag outliers and adapt rapidly to regulatory changes with change management
- Track products throughout the complete lifecycle to manage traceability
- Maintain data necessary to meet regulatory requirements and satisfy customers, such as sustainability credentials

*Packaging & Artwork*
- Connect your product packaging briefs directly to the product brief to increase efficiency and accuracy when developing new products
- Simplified, cost-efficient approach to package and label development.
- Track changes and automatically highlight version discrepancies to manage changing designs
- Reviews and comment on 2D and 3D designs within PLM
- Approval stage gates ensure nothing slips through the cracks

*Merchandising*
- Manage seasons, departments, collections and specific styles to meet performance targets, using up-to-date information
- Gain full visibility into material costs and product margins
- Run dynamic what-if scenarios using live data from PLM and other enterprise solutions to make better decisions
- Quickly create visual line plans and share information

*Design*
- Eliminate or reduce manual tasks, freeing up time to focus on creativity
- Stay in sync with merchandising and planning
- Access material libraries and historical product data
- Connect 3D design platforms with PLM to streamline product and packaging design
- Co-create with suppliers and agencies using a single source of truth

*Manufacturing & Production*
- Align with brand and retail teams in a cloud-based digital environment for faster time to market
- Manage all aspects of R&D, product development, costing and sampling
- Respond to RFPs, build tech packs, handle quality testing, manage compliance documentation and more
- Track compliance, sustainability and social impact, from raw materials to retail

*Regulations management*
- Centralized Documentation keeps all regulatory documents in one place
- Automated Compliance Checks automatically ensures product compliance with regulations.
- Traceability enables to track changes for audit readiness
- Efficient Change Management quickly adapts to regulatory updates
- Global Compliance manages diverse regional regulations effectively