Sweden'S Outdoor Brand POC Selects Centric PLM

Sweden

POC chooses Centric software to provide PLM (product life cycle management) solution for it.

POC is dedicated to providing protection for gravity and cycling.

Centric software is specially designed for

Retail, luxury, outdoor products and consumer company's top PLM solutions.

POC was founded in 2005, and focused on skiing sports market. Its original product was designed to enhance safety by reducing the force pmitted to the brain and body after impact.

The company enjoys high reputation for providing gravity protection and bicycle protectors. Its business is now in 25 countries and regions all over the world.

The brand is developing rapidly, so the PLM solution is needed to streamline operations and improve operational flexibility on the basis of best practices.

"With the expansion of business, we need to get some support to help us manage the complexity of business growth, and we need to remain flexible," said Stefan Ytterborn, chief executive and founder.

Like many growth brands, POC also uses standard office software, including a large number of spreadsheets.

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Manager Monica Lindstr? M said: "with the expansion of business activities, we can no longer use spreadsheets.

We decided to purchase a solution to enable us to improve visibility and pparency, and to control the supply chain from categorization to product development. "

Centric is outstanding in fashion knowledge, solutions and customer reputation.

"In the past, I also used other PLM systems, but Centric's solution was very satisfying. It made special design based on industry best practices to solve the clothing market demand.

This is really very important. "

Lindstrm continued.

"Centric software immediately learned about our business, and our team gave them a positive evaluation.

I firmly believe that Centric can help us to bring better products to the market faster, "Ytterborn said.

Chris Groves, chief executive of Centric software, said: "we are very pleased to be able to participate in the POC growth plan.

We have integrated the best practices in Centric PLM, and therefore, with the expansion of POC's high quality product business, we can help the company achieve stable profit growth.

POC (www.pocsports.com)

POC, a Swedish company, has a strong sense of mission at the very beginning of its development: by developing and pforming personal protective devices, to do everything possible to save lives, and strive to minimize the casualty rate of gravity sports and cycling participants.

In terms of technical solutions, structure, material mix and engineering design, POC has established many new standards, and has launched many patent solutions to improve the protection level.

About Centric Software (www.centricsoftware.com)

Centric software, from Silicon Valley headquarters to offices in various fashion cities around the world, is constantly innovating for the most famous brands of fashion, retail, footwear, luxury and consumer goods.

The most important product of the company, Centric 8 PLM, provides customized product planning, product development, procurement, business planning, quality control and product style management for the rapidly developing consumer goods industry.

The Centric Centric solution (Small Business), as an extension of Centric 8 PLM, is tailored for small businesses, enabling them to learn directly from the industry's innovative technology and key industry knowledge.

Centric software has won many industry awards, including the Frost, Sullivan, the retail, fashion and apparel industry PLM PLM global product differentiation Excellence Award. It was also named as one of the world's top 100 Private Companies of Red Herring in 2013 and 2015 respectively.

Centric is a registered trademark of Centric software company.

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