Centric Software has announced expanded sustainability, compliance and product governance capabilities across Centric PLM™, strengthening the platform’s role as a trusted product data foundation across product development and commercialization.
The enhancements are designed to help brands, retailers and manufacturers manage increasingly complex product, material, supplier and packaging information while responding to growing demands for transparency, sustainability and regulatory compliance.
Centric Software provides integrated, AI-powered enterprise solutions supporting product development from concept to commercialization for organizations across fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics and personal care, and multi-category retail.
Building a Trusted Product Data Foundation
As expectations around product transparency continue to rise, accurate and connected product data has become increasingly important for businesses. Organizations need reliable information covering products, materials, suppliers and packaging to support decision-making, accelerate product development and respond to evolving regulations.
These requirements include Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and initiatives under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), including forthcoming Digital Product Passports.
For many organizations, the challenge lies not in generating more sustainability information but in bringing fragmented data together into reliable product records. Centric PLM addresses this challenge by embedding sustainability, compliance and traceability into product and packaging development.
Rather than depending on separate point solutions for individual compliance requirements, the platform enables organizations to capture product information once and reuse it as regulatory and market requirements evolve.
Enhancing Sustainability and Compliance Management
The latest Centric PLM enhancements provide organizations with capabilities designed to improve product data governance and visibility throughout the product lifecycle.
Key enhancements include:
- Improved sustainability reporting: Sustainability Profiles and automated composition roll-ups support more accurate labeling and reporting.
- Stronger compliance governance: Centralized Certificate Management enables organizations to manage supplier certifications and track certificate expirations.
- Earlier circularity considerations: Recyclability and circularity insights can be incorporated into product development to support more circular design decisions.
- Enhanced supplier collaboration: Sustainability and compliance information can be collected, managed and governed within Centric PLM, improving visibility across the supply chain.
“Sustainability is a journey and greater visibility into materials and product data enables us to turn our goals into action,” said Sandy Flint, Senior Materials Manager, STIO. “With Centric PLM, we can integrate these priorities into the way we develop products and track key information such as materials, environmental impact and compliance. Having that information in one place gives us the visibility to make more informed decisions throughout product development.”
Supporting Transparency Across the Product Lifecycle
The expanded capabilities reflect the growing importance of trusted product data as sustainability and regulatory requirements become more interconnected with product development.
By connecting product, material, supplier and packaging information within a centralized environment, Centric PLM is positioned to help companies improve collaboration, strengthen governance and make more informed product decisions.
“Product transparency is reshaping how products are created and the brands that succeed will be those that make trusted product data the foundation for innovation, sustainability and compliance,” said Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software. “Centric PLM delivers a connected foundation of trusted product data that enables better decisions, stronger collaboration and greater agility as regulatory and market expectations evolve.”
The latest enhancements further strengthen Centric PLM’s role in helping companies connect product development with sustainability, compliance and traceability requirements while preparing for an increasingly data-driven and regulated product landscape.
