yutori Inc., the Japanese fashion start-up which runs multiple street brands, has successfully implemented Centric PLM, Centric Software®‘s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. 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.
Headquartered in Shibuya, Tokyo, yutori has developed several fashion brands and achieved rapid growth by adopting a DTC business model. The company does everything from product planning to sales in-house, without intermediary distributors or retailers. Until now, the company has used various tools such as e-mail, spreadsheets and SMS messages to exchange data. This includes product planning, quotations, orders and deliveries within the company and with suppliers, which are mainly textile trading companies. The company decided to adopt Centric PLM, the configurable, out-of-the-box PLM solution, in order to improve the efficiency of product sourcing, strengthen internal controls and improve data maintenance.
In February 2022, yutori completed the initial PLM implementation in just 5 weeks, followed by data cleansing and data load process for past transaction data. yutori went live with Centric PLM in March 2022, in approximately 3 months, including user training sessions. Centric Software’s unique Agile Deployment℠ methodology was critical in ensuring a rapid implementation.
Kenshiro Aoshima, Corporate Manager at yutori, says, “We set the goal of a very tight three-month schedule to complete the delivery of the system and make it available for everyone to use. We are very pleased that we were able to go live on time and within budget. During the implementation phase, we were impressed by the incredible speed and configurability of Centric PLM, the changes were immediately reflected the same day or the next day after we communicated our requirements.”
Yusuke Sato, Brand Manager at yutori, adds, “Before implementing Centric PLM, our main problem was that the information we needed was scattered all over the place and not shared efficiently among team members. The biggest benefit of using Centric PLM is that we are able to consolidate information both internally and with our suppliers, which allows smoother product sourcing.”
Chris Groves, President and CEO of Centric, comments, “We are very pleased that yutori has successfully completed the implementation of Centric PLM and achieved significant results in streamlining the product sourcing process as well as simplifying the sharing of information. We look forward to continuing our growing partnership with yutori.”
