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Centric Software®, the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market leader, is proud to present, for the first time at NRF, its transformational retail planning solution, Centric Planning™. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Brands and retailers continue to struggle with the mounting pressure of shorter assortment cycles, growing omnichannel and SKU complexity, and siloed ways of working. Until now, solution options have been limited; most companies rely on spreadsheets with severe limitations, or on rigid, expensive legacy planning solutions not built for the omni-channel era. To maximize product sell-through, optimize inventory and reach product margin goals, merchandisers, buyers, planners and allocators are in urgent need of tools to deliver real-time insights and drive impactful decisions based upon accurate forecasts

Centric Software®, the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market leader, proudly announces its partnership with Rhinoceros (Rhino) 3D, a leading CAD solution provider. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, consumer electronics, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Rhino 3D is a CAD flagship application by Rhinoceros® that is used for 3D design, rapid prototyping, 3D printing and more across industries including product design, industrial design, architecture, multimedia and graphic design. Rhino is highly customizable and offers compatibility with many other types of software, supporting over 30 CAD file formats for importing and exporting. “This partnership is the latest in a series of collaborations with 3D solution providers and will enable Centric PLM® users to work with Rhino designs through Centric PLM Connect,” explains Ron Watson, VP of Product at Centric

Oleg Shilovitsky announced the December update on OpenBOM. He says the top three topics and features introduced in this release are: Introducing BOM compare service OpenBOM and ManuFuture for bidding on custom mechanical parts CAD integrations improvements – Onshape, PTC Creo, Autodesk Fusion360 To read about the full software update please visit: https://www.openbom.com/blog/openbom-whats-new-december-2022 To view the original press release, please click here. Search for OpenBOM on CIMdata.com

Autodesk users can benefit from the seamless integration with Solibri Office, the most advanced BIM quality assurance software for the construction industry. Solibri’s direct integration with Autodesk BIM 360 enables users to create an efficient and reliable workflow to validate the quality of their BIM models, and easily share changes, issues or resources with relevant stakeholders. Users will be able to open IFC files that are stored in BIM 360 directly from within Solibri, without the need to download and maintain multiple local files. Collaboration is an integral part of our customers’ work. And with hundreds of multi-disciplinary BIM models created for each project, being able to manage all resources from one source of truth is critical for successful execution. “The BIM 360/ACC connector from Solibri makes it easy for Skanska Norway to have one central storage area for BIM files. It will help us to save time and be more efficient in