Centric's Collection Management Solution for apparel-consumer ind
17 Mar '06
3 min read
Product intelligence solutions provider Centric Software Inc announced a new solution for apparel and consumer goods manufacturers. Centric's Collection Management solution enables manufacturers to reduce new product development cycle time and deliver on tight deadlines by providing real-time visibility into key technical, product and scheduling information as well as financial data.
Centric's Collection Management solution intelligently captures and presents through user-defined dashboards the key performance indicators on the development and launch of the many thousands of items in a season, product line or collection.
By automatically gathering and maintaining live links to data from multiple systems such as design, material management, forecasting and sales systems, Centric's Collection Management solution rolls-up information from individual products to product families to entire company collections, providing complete visibility into design, planning, sourcing, development and sales schedules and activities.
This automated multi-level visibility into the status of every task enables apparel and consumer goods manufacturers to rapidly make informed decisions on individual items, execute against targets and assess overall success of each item against plan. The automation of data collection reduces cycle times and provides the product intelligence needed to select new products that will promote brand loyalty and maximize revenue.
Collect information from multiple, disparate source systems