Centric Software® announces that Marubeni Corporation has selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution to accelerate its business operational efficiency. 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 and beverage, and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.
Founded in 1858, Marubeni Corporation is a Japan-based company with several business segments, including its Lifestyle Division which specializes in OEM and ODM manufacturing of products such as apparel and footwear. In addition, Marubeni is leveraging digital technologies and expanding points of contact with customers with a focus on the direct-to-consumer sales businesses as well as advancing efforts to contribute to sustainability.
Marubeni exchanges a vast amount of complex information internally and with business partners, including group companies, apparel/footwear retailers, and suppliers.
“Information is shared via email and chat rooms. The formats and ways of working vary greatly among each department. Too much time and effort are wasted chasing information and on manual data entry,” says Kazumichi Watanabe, Senior Operating Officer in the Lifestyle Division of Marubeni.
Seeking to create consistency across the whole product lifecycle process, including product planning and proposal, production management and delivery management, Marubeni turned to the Centric PLM solution.
With the implementation of Centric PLM, Marubeni will consolidate all information from product planning and proposal to delivery, improving the efficiency of operations and communication. By managing information with business partners on one centralized platform, Marubeni aims to improve product planning and proposal capabilities, as well as dramatically accelerate the speed of their business in the whole process.
Watanabe adds, “We are very pleased to be working with Centric Software. In addition to the standard features of the product, one of the reasons we chose Centric PLM was because of their knowledge of the fashion industry and their extensive consulting experience. They won our trust with their ability to understand our exact requirements and quickly create demos and proposals. We trust that Centric PLM will help us solve our OEM/ODM business challenges.”
“We are thrilled and proud that Marubeni, a global trading company that represents Japan, has chosen Centric as a partner in their digital transformation journey,” says Chris Groves, President and CEO of Centric Software. “In addition to driving the successful digitalization of the current business processes, we look forward to partnering with Marubeni in their efforts to pursue further sustainability initiatives.”
