Cimdata Logo

Industry Summary Articles

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Centric Software Product Lifecycle Management Adopted by Truworths

Centric Software has acquired its second South African customer. Truworths, one of South Africa's leading fashion apparel retailers, with 747 stores in South Africa and eight other countries on the continent, has decided to adopt Centric 8 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software to support international growth and help structure its product development process.

Truworths is synonymous with fashion apparel retailing in South Africa, and offers internationally inspired clothing and footwear across a diversified portfolio of some of the country's most admired and recognized brands. Truworths also recently acquired Office Retail Group, a leading young fashion footwear retailer in the UK, Ireland and Germany. These brands are either internally developed or exclusive to the business and include Truworths, Truworths Man, Inwear, LTD, Uzzi and Identity, as well as the licenced brand Daniel Hechter.

In order to reinforce its competitive positioning and to continue to grow internationally, Truworths is focusing on delivering on-trend products and styles. As a consequence, the Truworths group has a wide portfolio of brands and styles and adopts a fast fashion business model for a large portion of its product ranges. A key goal is to reduce time to market.

“PLM soon appeared as an obvious solution to improve our ability to deal with an increasingly complex business,” explained a spokesperson for Truworths. “We began investigating PLM solutions and spent many hours in presentations and workshops with different PLM providers. We chose Centric 8 because it was user friendly, easy to configure and we could simply make it work the way we want it to.”

The Centric 8 PLM platform will be used across all of the group’s brands and all product types to help structure assortment planning and product development processes in order to support Truworths’ rapid expansion.

Truworths also aims to use Centric’s innovative technologies—particularly its integrated mobile applications. “We were impressed by Centric’s mobile applications, which work well with the core system,” the spokesperson said.

“We share Truworths’ passion for innovation and fashion,” says Chris Groves, President and CEO of Centric Software. “We are very proud to work with one of South Africa’s leading fashion retailers and bring our experience in fast fashion to help them in their strategy to achieve sustainable growth.”

Truworths International Ltd is an investment holding and management company listed on the JSE in South Africa and the Namibian Stock Exchange. Its principal trading entities, Truworths, Office Retail Group and Young Designers Emporium, are engaged either directly or through subsidiaries, agencies or franchises in the retailing of fashion clothing and footwear apparel and related merchandise. The company and its subsidiaries  operate primarily in South Africa and the United Kingdom, and have an emerging presence in sub Saharan Africa countries and Germany.

To view the original press release, please click here.

Search for Centric on CIMdata.com

r
ipad background image

Featured Cimdata Reports

ipadcontent
PLM-Enabled Digital Transformation Benefits Appraisal Guide

The Guide is designed to help potential PLM users evaluate the applicability and payoffs of PLM in their enterprise, and to help existing users of PLM monitor the impact it is having on their product programs.

ipadcontent
PLM Market Analysis Reports

The PLM MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market. It contains analyses of major trends and issues, leading PLM providers, revenue analyses for geographical regions and industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

ipadcontent
PLM Market Analysis Country Reports

These reports offer country-specific analyses of the PLM market. Their focus is on PLM investment and use in industrial markets. Reports cover Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

ipadcontent
Simulation & Analysis Market Analysis Report

This report presents CIMdata’s overview of the global simulation and analysis market, one of the fastest growing segments of the overall product lifecycle management market, including profiles of the leading S&A firms.

ipadcontent
CAM Market Analysis Report

This report presents CIMdata’s overview of the worldwide CAM software and services market. It also includes a discussion on the trends in the CAM industry and updates on the top CAM solution providers.