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Stichd implements Centric C8 PLM solution
25 Aug '20
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Stichd, the global licensee that partners with renowned A-brands to produce exceptional products in sport, lifestyle and fashion categories, has implemented Centric’s product lifecycle management (PLM), Centric C8. Centric provides innovative enterprise solutions to fashion, retail, footwear, outdoor, luxury, home décor, and consumer goods companies.
The company specialises in understanding and translating unique brand DNA in the design and marketing of legwear, bodywear, swimwear, and fanwear. Stichd connects brands, retailers and consumers to create experiences that matter. It does so successfully for clients including Puma, Tommy Hilfiger, Levi’s, and Head, by investing in its brand partners, from product innovation to marketing and digital solutions, to ensure a seamless experience across all consumer touch-points.
After experiencing incredible growth in the past 40 years, parts of the processes and IT blueprint needed modernising to support its expansion and to empower its design and product development teams to excel.
“We used to capture product data on local and shared drives, share it via email and FTP servers, which wasn’t a future-proof way of working. We started the search for a PLM solution to replace the old way of working and secure a single source of truth. Centric ticked all of these boxes well ahead of its competitors. Not only were we able to do a reference check on the features and benefits, but we also found that Centric had extensive market-specific knowledge, with matching company sizing, and a local implementation team,” Bart Speet, responsible for the Stichd PLM project management said in a press release by Centric.
The biggest advantage for Stichd is being able to capture the entire design and sourcing part of the value chain in one system that always contains the latest input, can be accessed by all stakeholders, and accurately captures the business’s global oriented development efforts.
The Centric PLM implementation project was given its own acronym ‘SEAM’, which stands for Simplicity, Efficiency, Accuracy and Measurability. Stichd refers to these four key pillars as guidelines every time a big PLM decision, such as data structure, is made.
Stichd has completed a rollout of the software to product managers, design teams, developers, packaging engineers and quality assurance teams, with extremely satisfied users in every department. They’re now able to save time with a user-friendly, centralised system.
The company specialises in understanding and translating unique brand DNA in the design and marketing of legwear, bodywear, swimwear, and fanwear. Stichd connects brands, retailers and consumers to create experiences that matter. It does so successfully for clients including Puma, Tommy Hilfiger, Levi’s, and Head, by investing in its brand partners, from product innovation to marketing and digital solutions, to ensure a seamless experience across all consumer touch-points.
After experiencing incredible growth in the past 40 years, parts of the processes and IT blueprint needed modernising to support its expansion and to empower its design and product development teams to excel.
“We used to capture product data on local and shared drives, share it via email and FTP servers, which wasn’t a future-proof way of working. We started the search for a PLM solution to replace the old way of working and secure a single source of truth. Centric ticked all of these boxes well ahead of its competitors. Not only were we able to do a reference check on the features and benefits, but we also found that Centric had extensive market-specific knowledge, with matching company sizing, and a local implementation team,” Bart Speet, responsible for the Stichd PLM project management said in a press release by Centric.
The biggest advantage for Stichd is being able to capture the entire design and sourcing part of the value chain in one system that always contains the latest input, can be accessed by all stakeholders, and accurately captures the business’s global oriented development efforts.
The Centric PLM implementation project was given its own acronym ‘SEAM’, which stands for Simplicity, Efficiency, Accuracy and Measurability. Stichd refers to these four key pillars as guidelines every time a big PLM decision, such as data structure, is made.
Stichd has completed a rollout of the software to product managers, design teams, developers, packaging engineers and quality assurance teams, with extremely satisfied users in every department. They’re now able to save time with a user-friendly, centralised system.
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