Higher Technology Co., Ltd. (Higher), a leading maker of car accessories, has selected 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.
Established in 1987, Higher is one of the largest automobile interior accessory manufacturers in China. Higher produces more than 1,300 items in five categories, and products are primarily sold in the United States, Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Australia. Higher’s main product lines command a 30% market share in the United States.
Having grown rapidly in recent years, Higher decided to accelerate their digital capabilities and invest in Centric PLM to handle ever-expanding product lines and categories.
“Working with spreadsheets and traditional methods, we experienced issues such as wasted time, duplication of effort, and scattered and inconsistent business data,” explains Ms. Xu Bin, Chairwoman of Higher. “With Centric PLM, Higher’s design, development, business, technology, proofing, procurement and other teams will be able to collaborate more efficiently on a unified platform. We will build a complete product database to provide strong digital intelligence support for future product grouping, matching, production and customer selection decision-making.”
“One of the key factors of Higher’s success is that we embrace change and dare to innovate,” she continues. “We were impressed by Centric’s innovative spirit as well as their industry-leading insights and rich customer experience across the entire consumer goods industry. Centric PLM is flexible, scalable and can guide and inspire our team to empower product development and management innovation. This will enable us to maintain our leading position in the industry.”
Higher’s PLM project aims to enhance structured data management and collaboration, build a product knowledge base with historical data, visualize data during design and development stages to improve customer satisfaction and streamline workflows to optimize efficiency.
“We are honored to partner with Higher as they embark on the total digital transformation of their business,” says Chris Groves, President and CEO of Centric Software. “We are looking forward to working closely with Higher to build a collaborative digital intelligence and product data platform that will enable Higher to grow and expand even further in the future.”
