Classic Prep Childrenswear (CPC), the traditional children’s apparel firm, has selected Centric’s product lifecycle management (PLM) solution for emerging brands, Centric SMB. Centric provides enterprise solutions to fashion, retail, footwear, outdoor, luxury, and consumer goods companies to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

CPC has enjoyed rapid growth over the past year and a half, especially after placing new focus on their direct-to-consumer business. They recently ramped up their in-house staffing to more than double their pre-COVID-19 levels. This stressed the need to have a system that allowed collaborative and simultaneous work, to eliminate the issues around using Dropbox and spreadsheets. The CPC team laid out all their requirements for a digital solution, which included having the design, merchandising, and planning teams benefit from it. Also, meeting the company’s current needs but being able to grow with them. They did a search for solutions, sitting through numerous demos, according to a Centric press release.

“I’ve been very frustrated about how we manage and communicate with our data. Developing tech packs, purchase orders and trying to do things like calculate fabric utilisation, which theoretically should just take a couple of days to do, takes weeks. We’re having to constantly go back and forth into Dropbox because a spreadsheet didn’t get updated properly, and we were running into issue after issue related to just this data problem, which in 2021 shouldn't even be a consideration,” Josh Jewett, founder of CPC said in a statement.

“I foresee it being tremendously helpful to make us much more efficient. We’ll be able to create POs and templates for our different factories in a matter of days instead of weeks. We’ll create component lists for an entire line that's going into production and be able to quickly export and identify what our testing requirements are going to be, instead of having to pour through excel tech packs to make sure we captured everything,” Jewett said.

CPC ultimately chose Centric SMB, a SaaS, cloud-based PLM solution tailored for emerging businesses. The powerful out-of-the-box functionality met all of their needs, with Centric’s responsiveness and expertise sealing the deal.

“It is a pleasure to be able to partner with this fast-growing, children’s apparel company. We are privileged to contribute to the continued success of Classic Prep now and moving forward,” Chris Groves, president and CEO of Centric said in a statement.

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