Shoes For Crews, a top producer of slip resistant footwear for the workplace, has successfully implemented Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution.
Founded in 1984, Shoes For Crews first launched a safe and comfortable shoe for nurses and quickly expanded to producing shoes and boots with a proprietary slip-resistant outsole that provides traction in workplaces with slippery floors. Shoes For Crews has been an industry leader in safety for over three decades and is now the safety footwear of choice in more than 100,000 professional kitchens, medical facilities and industrial workplaces worldwide.
Shoes For Crews selected Centric Software’s PLM solution to provide a solid foundation during a time of growth and development. Rollout of Centric PLM was completed on budget and one month ahead of schedule; just in time to support the complete relaunch of the Shoes For Crews brand in April 2017.
“Shoes For Crews has gone through a total transformation in the past year,” explains Shoes For Crews President, CEO and Chief Innovation Officer Stuart Jenkins. “Our new product development team has been working extremely hard to produce a completely new collection of 77 styles that reflect a workforce that now includes more young people and women than ever before. Safety shoes and boots don’t have to be hard, heavy and ugly to be effective. They can be comfortable, lightweight and stylish, and the PLM solution helped us to design great, commercial shoes.”
To support this intense period of product development and design, Shoes For Crews needed a flexible and user-friendly PLM solution that could handle data effectively. The original projected go-live date was beat by more than a month, just 42 business days after the kick-off date.
Chris Groves, President and CEO of Centric Software, says, “The Shoes For Crews project has been a model implementation for Centric and we are delighted to be able to support them as they launch an entirely new product collection. The new Shoes For Crews brand has a bright future, and we are proud to partner with them to achieve their growth and development goals.”
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