Shanghai Yuanfan Fashion Women’s Clothing Co., Ltd. (Yuanfan) has selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution for emerging enterprises, Centric SMB. 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.
Established in 2000, Yuanfan is engaged in R&D, manufacturing, marketing, logistics and staff wellbeing. Yuanfan has established a sales network of nearly 300 points of sale across China, and currently operates two modern production bases in Zhejiang Province.
Yuanfan regards structure and standardization of product information as key goals. “We recognize that many leading apparel companies have achieved digitalized product development and production with the successful implementation of Centric PLM,” says Mr. Liu, Chairman of the Board at Yuanfan. “Centric Software’s extensive experience, customer portfolio, engagement in the global apparel industry and knowledge of industry best practices compelled Yuanfan to choose Centric as a partner.”
Yuanfan selected Centric SMB, the SaaS PLM solution for emerging brands, to lay a solid foundation for development by improving efficiency and standardizing internal processes with an eye to innovation and full-spectrum future plans.
“Online collaboration is the trend of the future,” says Mr. Xiong Weixian, Assistant to the General Manager at Yuanfan. “The entire apparel industry shows an increasingly higher demand for quick decision making based on up-to-date, accurate, shared information. Agility and working pro-actively are necessities. The implementation of Centric PLM is an opportunity to optimize our end-to-end product development chain.”
Centric SMB will enable Yuanfan to address critical pain points by streamlining R&D and work tasks, tracking progress and structuring product categories for quick response. Yuanfan also expects to reduce communication costs, enhance managerial control, boost visibility to give employees a greater sense of their role in the organization and consolidate data to empower digital decision-making.
“We are delighted that Yuanfan has selected Centric SMB to power their digital transformation,” says Chris Groves, President and CEO of Centric Software. “We look forward to working closely with Yuanfan to actively optimize the products, processes and people that are driving their future success.”
