Centric Software Expands PLM Sustainability and Compliance Capabilities

en.Wedoany.com Reported - Centric Software® announced the expansion of its Centric PLM™ capabilities in sustainability, compliance, and product governance, extending trusted product data and processes across the entire product development and commercialization journey to address increasingly complex product and regulatory requirements. Centric Software provides AI-driven enterprise solutions for brands, retailers, and manufacturers in the fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics and personal care, and multi-category retail sectors, covering the product development process from concept to commercialization.

As expectations for product transparency continue to rise, enterprises urgently need accurate, interconnected, and trusted product data across products, materials, suppliers, and packaging to support decision-making, accelerate development, and respond to evolving regulatory requirements, including Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), and broader initiatives under the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), which involves the upcoming Digital Product Passport. For many organizations, the challenge lies not in generating more sustainability information, but in transforming fragmented product, material, supplier, and packaging data into trusted product records that improve compliance and decision quality. Rather than adopting point solutions for individual compliance requirements, Centric PLM embeds sustainability, compliance, and traceability directly into the product and packaging development process, establishing a single source of truth that enables product information to be captured once and reused as regulatory requirements evolve.

Sandy Flint, Senior Materials Manager at STIO, stated that deeper visibility into material and product data enables companies to translate sustainability goals into tangible actions. With Centric PLM, teams can integrate these priorities into the product development approach, centrally tracking key information such as materials, environmental impact, and compliance, thereby gaining the visibility needed for more informed decisions throughout the development process.

The enhancements to Centric PLM focus on four key areas: improving sustainability reporting through Sustainability Profiles and automated ingredient summaries for more accurate labeling and reporting; strengthening compliance governance through centralized certificate management, supplier certifications, and expiry tracking; embedding recyclability and circularity insights into product development to enable circular design earlier; and collecting and managing sustainability and compliance information within Centric PLM to improve supplier collaboration and visibility.

Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software, stated that product transparency is reshaping the way products are created, and successful brands will build on trusted product data as the foundation for innovation, sustainability, and compliance. Centric PLM provides the interconnected foundation of trusted product data, supporting better decision-making, collaboration, and agility as regulatory and market expectations evolve.

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an AI-powered concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands, and manufacturers. Its flagship product, Centric PLM™, optimizes product execution from ideation, development, and sourcing to manufacturing, with official data indicating productivity gains of up to 50% and time-to-market reductions of up to 60%. Centric Market Intelligence™ leverages AI-driven consumer trends, competitor product, and pricing insights, which can drive an average increase in initial price points of up to 12%. Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, a global leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mockups, and PLM solutions.